Billionaire's Betrayal a contracted revenge (Aurelia) novel Chapter 58

Chapter 58

Chapter 58

Rieck’s POV

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I had given her twenty minutes. At nineteen, a gunshot cracked across the dark, and I was out of the car before I knew it.

I hadn’t wanted to wait in that car. Every part of me had argued against it. But the plan called for me to stay back and out of sight, so that no one could ever tie a Valerius to the building, and I agreed, because in the end I always agreed to the plan.

So without thinking too much about it, I crossed the road.

The back of the building stood open, and inside, the air was wrong. I knew it the moment I stepped through. Too quiet. Too still. And under the smell of concrete and cold, blood.

I went up.

Her scent was everywhere on the back stairs. So I quickly followed it, up four floors and along a black corridor, past a door still hanging open on a dark office, and down again by another stair, tracking her the only way that had never once failed me.

But it failed me on the ground floor.

Her scent ran strongly down a long hallway toward the rear exit, and then, ten steps short of the green light of the door, it just stopped. As though she had walked to that spot and been lifted straight out of the world.

I stood there breathing it in, hunting for the rest of her, and found instead the thing that had taken her place.

Another wolf.

Not mine. Not my blood. A cold and wild scent laid right over hers. And I knew that kind of scent. I knew the breed of thing that wore it. And the knowing turned my blood to ice water.

I found the guard six feet away, slumped against the wall.

Dead. His throat was open, and not by any blade. Four deep furrows tore down through his collar and the meat beneath it, curved and spaced too wide for any tool a man’s hand could hold.

Claws.

A wolf had walked into my city, on my watch, and it had taken my wife and left a body cooling on the floor behind it like a note left on a door.

I had caught the edge of that scent once before, faint, on the men who had tried her in the alley weeks ago. A wolf that crossed my borders and left no fear behind it, because it didn’t believe my borders were real. There was only one creature in this part of the world bold enough and strong enough to do that and walk away whistling. But I didn’t let myself think of the name. Not yet. Names had a way of making things true.

I crouched there in the dark with the dead man and the empty place where her scent ended, and for one long moment I couldn’t make myself move at all.

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I had slag I had my 1hr food Marta let went cold where at sat, and the coffee beside it went colder. and I walked the length of the glass and back, and the length of it again, while the city brightened grey below far as thoughs thus were an ordinary day.

When my phone rang. I had it so my car before the first ning finished.

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‘fortweg you” “Ichnos cordial the way men worn to be careful around a thing that bites. “We have the building, the comeres. The streets for a mode our But she is on none of them. It is as though she stepped off the

hay A few way. We are will

Then kukk harder My voxer didn’t sound like my own. “Pull every man I have. Every favour, every camera, myney moon show waves thus raty I don’t care what it costs or whose sleep it ruins. You find her. By morning 1 want to kom here yound she is standing on

Then you are already love”

1 eded the call and on both hands flat on the cold glass and looked out at the city that was supposed to be mata rex wwwres the rivers of tratt and I had never in my life felt so completely without power inside my

Shard known That was the part that wouldn’t let me alone 1 had stood in my father’s smoke and known this www bad road and I had walked it anyway, because I wouldn’t hand over a name and a stretch of land to keep ber some I had traded her safety for my inheritance and called it good sense while I did it.

Sie sould we have your in I should never have allowed it.

My father was awake when I came through his door He sat with his coffee and the first cigar of the day, and the men of all that calm nearly tore something loow in me

“You told me it was wound” I didn’t lower my voice. I stood in your study and told you it was too much risk. and you smiled and called it strategy Now there is a dead man in Dawson’s building and my wife is gone, and a wolf that sent ours has carried her off into the dark. So tell me. Father. Which part of that did your strategy

Beton down his up and the warmth left his face by slow degrees.

“Mind your tour the cased quietly. I have indulged a great deal from you these past weeks. But I am still your father and you will not stand in my home and speak to me as though I were one of your men

“A wolf took her

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