A Woman Worth Billions Dated the Wrong Brother novel Chapter 392

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Amber POV

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Marcus went after Jasmine, and for almost two hours I waited at the castle for the next update.

Before Jasmine left, I had personally attached her tracker to her gear. I had tested it twice, made sure it was transmitting, and connected my tablet as an emergency receiver. I hadn’t intended to monitor her every second from the castle. The actual tracking equipment for both Jasmine and Marcus was posted at the command center at the mines, where the teams could coordinate their movements underground. 1

My tablet was only the backup.

That was why, when it suddenly screamed, everyone in the room froze.

A sharp alarm cut through the quiet, and a red warning filled my screen.

SOS REQUEST RECEIVED.

Jasmine.

I opened it immediately.

A location ping appeared beneath the warning.

Deep underground.

Far beyond the historical Ember routes.

I stood.

“Noah.”

He was beside me immediately.

“Jasmine?”

“Yes.”

Emory woke in the chair across the room and came toward us.

“What happened?”

“She triggered the SOS.”

“Did command call?”

“No.”

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That bothered me immediately.

They should have known before I did.

The command center at the mines had the primary tracker feeds. If Jasmine activated an emergency signal, their screens should have lit up before my tablet ever made a sound.

I grabbed my phone.

“I’m going.”

Emory stepped in front of me.

“No.”

“Move.”

“Amber, we don’t know what happened.”

“Exactly.”

“And until we do, you’re not walking into an unknown situation.”

“I can be at the mine in less than thirty minutes.”

“The entrance isn’t the problem. Jasmine is hours underground.”

“Then I’ll go as far as I can.”

“No.”

I glared at him.

Emory didn’t move.

“Give me two minutes,” he said. “Command should already have teams heading toward her. Let me find out what’s happening before you leave the one place where her emergency signal is actually coming through.”

That stopped me.

Barely.

Emory called the command center.

They answered quickly.

“This is Emory. Status on Jasmine Park.”

There was a pause.

Emory frowned,

“What do you mean?

Noah moved closer

I stared at my tablet,

The SOS continued flashing,

Emory put the call on speaker.

“We don’t have an emergency registered for Park, the officer sad

I felt cold,

“She activated her SOS,” Emory said. “Amber’s receiving fast now”

Another pause,

“We haven’t received anything”

“What are her coordinates?”

“We’re pulling up-”

Silence,

Not disconnected silence.

The kind that happened when somebody realized something was very wrong

Emory’s expression changed.

“What?”

“Stand by.”

“Don’t tell me to stand by. What do you see?”

“We’re checking the tracking system.”

1 gripped the tablet harder.

“Check Marcus too,” I said.

Emory immediately repeated it.

“Pull Marcus’s tracker at the same time.”

There were volces in the background now

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Then the officer returned.

“We have a problem.

“What problem?”

“The underground tracker feeds aren’t active.”

Noah straightened.

“What?”

Emory’s voice went frighteningly calm.

“Explain.”

“The receivers are online, but the feeds from the underground units aren’t coming through.”

“Since when?”

“We don’t know yet.”

“You don’t know?”

“We’ve been receiving delayed position data because of interference. The system wasn’t showing a failure warning.”

I stared at my tablet.

“No.”

Everyone looked at me.

“That’s not interference.”

I knew because I’d configured Jasmine’s tracker myself.

Her SOS had reached me.

The tracker worked.

The command center simply wasn’t receiving it.

Emory understood at the same moment.

“Amber is receiving Park’s signal at the castle.”

Silence on the other end.

“That means the tracker isn’t the problem,” Emory continued.

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“No, sir.”

“The command system is.”

“We’re checking it now.

“Check Marcus.”

“We don’t have his live position.”

My stomach dropped.

Emory’s jaw tightened.

“When was his last confirmed location?”

The officer gave him a time.

Too long ago.

I looked at Jasmine’s SOS coordinates.

Someone had disabled the tracking system at the mine command center while our people were underground.

Whether they’d disabled the entire system or only the feeds we needed didn’t matter.

It meant the search teams had been moving blind without realizing it.

“Send them Jasmine’s coordinates,” Emory ordered.

“They aren’t appearing on our system.”

“I don’t care about your system. I’m sending them from Amber’s tablet. Write them down if you have to.”

I forwarded everything.

Coordinates.

Timestamp.

Tracker identification.

Last signal strength.

Emory didn’t wait for confirmation.

“Get your closest operatives moving toward that location now. I want an emergency extraction team, tactical support and medics underground immediately.”

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“Yes, sir.”

“Do not rely on the command tracking system. Radio every team manually. Confirm their positions verbally.”

“Understood.”

“And lock down that command center.”

The officer hesitated.

“Sir?”

“Your tracking system was disabled during an active search for a kidnapped man while multiple suspects may still be inside those caves. Nobody leaves that command center until you know whether this was a technical failure or sabotage.”

“Understood.”

Emory ended the call.

Then he grabbed his medical bag.

“I’m going.”

Daniel entered from the adjoining room, drawn by the alarm and raised voices.

“What happened?”

“The mine tracking system was disabled,” Noah said. “Jasmine sent an SOS. Amber’s backup received it.”

Daniel’s expression changed instantly.

“I’m coming.”

“No,” Emory said.

“There could be casualties.”

Daniel stared at hân.

“I know Jason and Jasmine. If either one of them is down there injured, I’m useful.”

“So am I.”

“You stay with Amber.”

Not now.

“I’ll find out what happened.”

Teams underground were being contacted manually and redirected toward Jasmine’s coordinates. Tactical units were checking intersections and securing known exits. Technicians were tearing through the command system to determine exactly how the tracker feeds had been disabled.

I stayed at the castle with my tablet.

Emergency team reached lower passage. Blood trail located.

Nobody tried to guess what that meant.

Pamela took over communications while Mrs. Sun and Grandpa joined us. Noah stayed close, and Daniel prepared for whatever might happen when they reached the surface.

“He’s alive.”

“Jason is alive. He’s unconscious, but he’s breathing on his own. Weak pulse, dehydration, blood loss, multiple injuries and possible head trauma. We’re stabilizing him for extraction.”

“I won’t.”

“What happened?”

“We’re still piecing it together. There was a fight in a lower chamber. Mr. White was there.”

“Where is he?”

“Gone. He escaped through another passage. Three of his men are in custody.”

Beside me, Noah released a breath so sharply that I heard it.