A Woman Worth Billions Dated the Wrong Brother novel Chapter 388

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I wiped my face.

“The twins are okay.”

His breathing hitched.

“They’ve been kicking me constantly. I’m pretty sure they’re already conspiring against us.”

A faint sound.

Maybe a laugh.

Maybe pain.

I chose laugh.

“Alice keeps drawing pictures for you. Alex is pretending he isn’t terrified because apparently he inherited your habit of turning feelings into logistics.”

Jasmine looked away.

“Rose is reading everything she can get her hands on, and Iris is helping everyone.”

My voice broke.

“Your grandmother is driving the entire castle insane.”

The sound coming through the phone changed again.

I imagined Jason smiling.

I needed him to be smiling.

“Grandpa is here too. Nobody left.”

I pressed my hand against my stomach.

“We’re waiting for you.”

The connection crackled.

“No.”

I looked at the screen.

The signal weakened.

“Jason?”

Static.

“Jason, stay with me.”

I tried to stabilize the connection.

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“Jasmine, call Marcus.”

“Already trying.”

“Jason?”

A breath.

Then nothing

“Jason!”

The call ended.

I immediately called back.

Nothing

Again.

Unavailable.

“No, no, no.”

I tried again.

Nothing.

But I had the trace.

I had enough.

I looked at the map.

“Marcus.”

Jasmine shook her head. “He’s not answering.”

“Keep calling.”

She did.

Once.

Twice.

Three times.

Finally, someone answered.

Marcus.

“What happened?”

“I found him.”

Silence.

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“What?”

“Jason called me.”

Marcus started speaking to someone near him.

I continued quickly.

“The call died. His battery was almost gone, but traced it before we lost the connection.”

“Send me everything.”

“It’s already sent.”

I heard movement on his side.

“How accurate?”

“Not enough to give you a room, but enough to give you a completely different search area.”

“Where?”

“Deeper than the camp.”

Marcus went silent.

“How much deeper?”

“Much.”

I enlarged the location.

“The signal came from beyond the Ember maps.

I heard him swear.

“He’s alive, Marcus.”

My voice broke again.

“He’s hurt. I don’t know how badly, but he’s alive.”

That changed everything.

Marcus’s voice hardened.

“We’re moving.”

“Take military teams.”

“Already calling them.”

“Don’t wait.”

“We won’t.”

The call ended.

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For several seconds, I simply stared at my phone.

Seven days imagining every possible outcome and refusing to let myself accept any of them.

Now I knew.

He was alive.

Hurt.

Somewhere deep beneath Sum.

And he’d found a phone–or stolen one, knowing Jason-and used whatever battery remained for one thing.

To call me.

Mrs. Sun appeared in the doorway.

She took one look at my face.

“What happened?”

I smiled.

For the first time in a week, it wasn’t forced.

“Jason called.”

Her hand flew to her mouth.

Alice ran toward me.

“Daddy?”

“He’s alive.”

The room changed instantly.

Mrs. Sun started crying.

Alice climbed onto the bed and hugged me.

Rose ran for Alex and Iris.

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Jasmine stood beside the window, already coordinating additional security and search information.

I looked down at the location blinking on my screen.

A tiny point beneath miles of rock.

A place none of our maps showed.

An hour ago, it would have meant nothing.

Now it meant everything.

Because Jason had given us something we’d been losing with every passing day.

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A direction and hope.

The search began again.

Marcus called me less than an hour after the search teams reached the new coordinates from Jason’s call.

I answered before the first ring finished. “What did you find?”

No greeting. No wasting time.

Marcus sounded out of breath, and the echo behind his voice told me he was still underground. “Another route. It’s not on the Ember maps or the newer mine surveys.”

My fingers tightened around the phone. “Recently used?”

“Looks like it. Disturbed dust, fresh scrape marks, footprints. Someone has been through here recently.”

My heart immediately started pounding. “How deep?”

“Deeper than the section we’ve been searching. Much deeper. We’re bringing in equipment before anyone moves farther.”

“How long?”

“Amber.”

“How long, Marcus?”