A Superpowered Warrior in a Fake Heiress’s Body novel Chapter 89

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Chapter 89 The Extraction Sign

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Her resilience facing a total family desertion was one factor, but Isabella’s raw personal magnetism was an absolute force of nature.

A girl who grew up inside a human trafficking ring, yet never wasted a single second whining about her tragic luck.

Instead, she took every single brutal lesson the wilderness beat into her and sharpened it into an unassailable tactical advantage.

Isabella had earned his highest endorsement.

He deeply respected her unyielding grit and her ability to maintain a perfectly calm, calculating focus in the middle of a hot zone.

“Brett is still off the grid; did you tuck him into a secure sector?”

Ethan asked with a chuckle, “My handlers have been scrambling his name around the main structure for three rounds, but the kid refuses to show his face.

“We even had Eugene call his device over the satellite link.

“But he won’t budge an inch.

“Looks like my brother doesn’t trust a single soul out there, terrified he’ll compromise your position

Ethan laughed, thoroughly amused by his brother’s stubbornness.

He understood Brett’s psychological baseline perfectly.

Isabella had thrown herself straight into the jaws of a cartel to shield him, and rather than risk complicating her extraction, the boy preferred to stay frozen in the dark, terrified an enemy would trick, him into breaking cover to use him as leverage against her.

They were both solid assets.

Listening to his chuckle, Isabella stood completely deadpan.

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She officially recalled Brett’s frantic vow to literally starve to death in his hole if she didn’t show up.

Was he actually taking that drama seriously?

The corners of her lips twitched slightly. “Before I broke cover, I gave him an absolute order to ignore every voice on the field unless it matched my exact frequency.

“These cartel operators are highly professional contract personnel.

“I had to eliminate the variable of an enemy looping back to the structure to extract him before response

units arrived.

“Or simply executing him to clean up the workspace”

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Her dark eyes flashed with an icy glint.

The shooters‘ strategic objective went far beyond simple cash extortion.

Consequently, she had established a hard two–tier safety perimeter.

“Your tactical scanners should have pinpointed his biological signature by now.

“But whatever, let’s keep the timeline moving. I’ll go drag him out myself.”

Isabella turned on her heel, pacing straight toward a dense, overlooked thicket near the concrete structure.

A minor fissure in the rock wall blended seamlessly with the mud line.

To a casual glance, the opening looked like nothing more than a solid, unyielding stone face.

A handler stepped forward to flag her approach, interjecting, “Miss Powell, our team already swept that exact coordinate.

“It’s a dead end, just solid rock bedrock.”

Right as his objection cleared the air, Isabella reached out and tapped the stone surface.

One heavy stroke, followed by three rapid beats, finalizing the sequence with five crisp taps.

A dull thud echoed from within.

The artificial stone barrier was violently shoved outward from the inside, and Brett bounded clean out of the recess.

“Oh god, Isabella! You’re alive!

“I actually thought you weren’t coming back for me!

“A bunch of guys were slamming against my wall earlier.

“I didn’t dare breathe a single word!”

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Listening to his frantic sobbing, the handlers who had meticulously vetted that exact wall three times stood completely paralyzed.

Are you freaking kidding me right now…

So you heard our rescue calls, felt us tapping the stone, and you just sat there playing dead?!

Still, the team was deeply bewildered by the mechanics.

They were elite tactical professionals; there was zero chance their physical inspections would miss a hollow partition.

When they hammered on that exact structure earlier, the audio feedback had indicated a hundred percent solid concrete core.

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How the hell did Brett magically materialize out of a solid wall?

They lacked the data to understand that Isabella had woven her raw telepathic focus throughout the recess, generating a total sensory illusion that could deceive any human observer.

Consequently, despite multiple sweeps, the SWAT units had filtered out the anomaly entirely, bypassing the bunker.

Unless they deployed high–grade electronic thermal arrays, locating Brett was a statistical impossibility.

“Yeah,” Isabella murmured flatly, her voice cool.

“The threat environment is green.

“The danger is neutralized.”

“Oh.” Realizing he was a grown teenager weeping like a baby right into her uniform, Brett’s face flushed with intense embarrassment.

But the psychological horror of that dark box had been absolute.

Although he knew the authorities would eventually secure the sector, the raw fear of the unknown was agonizing.

He had been on the absolute verge of a total meltdown.

Isabella not returning with the handlers had filled him with a sickening feeling of dread.

He had been terrified she was killed in action, which was why he refused to break cover, completely locking his emotions inside his fortress.

It was as if staying frozen could magically keep her safe from harm!

Brett fiercely wiped his tears, his fingers tightly clutching Isabella’s sleeve.

He was still deep in an acute trauma response, and though he knew acting like this was humiliating, he couldn’t control his actions.

He only felt a shred of survival security when he was standing right before her eyes.

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