A Woman Worth Billions Dated the Wrong Brother novel Chapter 429

Running Around The Truth

Jason POV

Everything inside me stopped.

“What?”

Emory turned toward me.

I put the call on speaker.

“Say that again.”

“We found Adrian,” Jasmine repeated.

“Alive?”

A pause.

Too long.

“Jasmine.”

“We believe so.”

I closed my eyes for half a second.

“Where?”

“River City.”

That made no sense.

“They took him out of River City.”

“No,” Jasmine said. “That’s what they wanted everyone to believe.”

I looked toward Emory.

“What about the work trip?”

“Fake.”

Noah took over.

“We’ve been going through the surveillance information with the team. Once we knew what to look for, we started tracking movements connected to Adrian’s family instead of trying to follow the supposed travel itinerary.”

“And?”

“They never left River City.”

I gripped the phone tighter.

“None of them?”

“Not the people we’re tracking,” Noah said. “There are records designed to make it look as though some of them moved around, but the physical surveillance doesn’t match.”

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Jasmine came back onto the call.

Adrian didn’t go on a work trip, Jason.”

I already knew what she was going to say.

I still didn’t want to hear it.

“His family has him.”

The room went silent.

“Explain.”

“We found a property connected indirectly to the family,” Jasmine said. “Not under the obvious surname. Noah found vehicle movements between that location and people connected to the hotel.”

Noah interrupted. “We don’t have eyes inside yet.”

That distinction mattered.

“Then how do you know Adrian is there?”

“We have surveillance from outside,” Jasmine said. “And audio.”

“What audio?”

There was another pause.

Then Noah answered.

“Adrian’s voice.”

I looked toward Amber.

Alive.

Adrian was alive.

At least, if the recording was current and they were right, he had been alive when it was captured.

“Does Mr. Stait know?”

“Obviously,” Jasmine said.

“Mr. Asher?”

“No. Mr. Stait wanted to verify before telling him.”

That was smart.

Because Mr. Asher was already furious enough to personally tear River City apart brick by brick.

“How long have they had him?”

“We don’t know yet.”

“Why keep him there?”

Jasmine was quiet.

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Then she said, “Because nobody was looking for him in River City.”

at sentence hit harder than it should have.

Clara had believed her husband was traveling for work.

Asher Corporation had no record of the trip.

We had been looking for movement, flights, hotels, meetings-anything that would tell us where Adrian had gone

Meanwhile, he might never have left home.

“They created a destination,” Noah said, “so everyone would search away from where he actually was.”

I tightened my grip on Amber’s hand.

“Do not go inside.”

Jasmine made an offended sound.

“I’m serious.”

“So am I.”

“No housekeeping uniforms. No windows. No vents. No pretending you’re delivering food.”

“I wasn’t planning any of those.”

“That answer isn’t reassuring.”

Noah laughed quietly.

“Mr. Stait has already told us to hold position,” he said. “A recovery team is being organized.”

“Good.”

I looked down at Amber.

Her blood pressure was better.

Her heart was settling.

My sons were safe.