[Elena's POV]
The door slammed shut behind Noah, and the sudden silence felt like a vacuum sucking all the air out of the room.
I sat there on the silk sheets, naked except for the thin fabric pooled around my waist, staring at the space where he'd been standing.
Jake was kidn*pped by Velgrave. Or... was he?
I replayed Noah's reaction in my head. The cold fury. The immediate phone call from Caleb. The way his entire body had tensed like a coiled spring ready to snap.
That wasn't the reaction of a man who'd orchestrated his own nephew's k********g.
That was the reaction of a man who'd been blindsided.
Noah was a lot of things, ruthless, possessive, morally bankrupt when it came to stock manipulation, but he wasn't stupid.
If he'd wanted Jake out of the way, he wouldn't have framed
