Even in Darkness She Chose to Rise (Tatiana and Jasper) novel Chapter 606

Even in Darkness, Shc Chose to Rise

Chapter 606 A Stark Confession

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Liam’s smile widened the smooth arrogance in his eyes deepening. “If you are unwilling to let me in, then I will simply have to work harder to see every single side of you.”

Tatiana offered no direct reply. Instead, she turned, glided around the vehicle, and slid into the passenger

seat.

Liam raised an eyebrow as he climbed in beside her. “A silent refusal?”

“I am completely exhausted. Can you please just take me home?”

Her voice softened slightly, laced with a heavy, unmistakable weariness.

Liam offered a polite smile, choosing not to press her any further as he shifted the gears and drove her back to the estate.

The moment the vehicle pulled up to her gates, Tatiana reached out to open her door, but the handle refused to budge. The mechanism remained firmly locked.

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She turned her head to look at him. “Liam?”

Liam turned to meet her gaze, his expression striking a tone of absolute seriousness. “Tatiana, I want to pursue you formally. If you agree, I want us to date with the explicit intention of marriage.”

Tatiana paused for a brief second. “Liam, the list of women desperate to marry you stretches from one side of the capital to the other.”

“None of them are you.”

“Your understanding of who I am is far too superficial.”

“Then I am entirely willing to spend the rest of my life learning more.”

Tatiana let out a soft laugh, the expression entirely empty of real warmth. “You will regret it.”

“I have never done anything I regret.”

She had run completely out of patience, thoroughly disgusted by the circulas argument.

Suddenly, she leaned across the center console, narrowing the distance between them until she was inches from his face. She looked as though she were about to press her lips against his.

Taken entirely off guard by her sudden boldness, Liam froze, caught in a split second of hesitation between leaning into the embrace or letting her take the lead. But before he could make a move, a crispy statement cut through the quiet of the cabin.

“I have children.”

The confession was absolute and unyielding.

Liam’s confident

preedom froze instantly

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“Two of them,” she added smoothly.

The rigidity in Liam’s posture deepened, the color draining from his face.

“We are not a match. I genuinely hope you find someone more suitable.”

Leaving him with those words, she pulled back, smoothly pressed the unlocked handle, and stepped out of the vehicle. Only now did he realize her sudden proximity had merely been a calculated distraction to reach the master unlock switch on his console.

By the time Liam finally collected his shattered composure, Tatiana had already vanished beyond the estate gates.

His face turned incredibly grim, darker than it had ever been in his entire life. He had never expected a veteran evaluator like himself to misread a target so completely. He had never anticipated she was already a mother.

Whose children are they? Who did she share a history with?

The background checks his team had run were clearly flawed. This woman’s true origins were a complete enigma.

He exhaled a long, heavy breath, slammed his foot on the accelerator, and tore down the driveway.

entirely correct about one thing. They were not a match. The future matriarch of the Langstrom family coulder be a woman burdened with another man’s children.

Regardless of his bruised ego, Tatiana was

Tatiana was fully aware that those two brief sentences would ensure Liam never crossed her path again. She was equally aware that she could have easily concealed the truth, stringing him along until his affection ran deep enough for her to manipulate him completely.

But it was entirely unnecessary.

Her initial motivation for closing the distance to the Langstrom family had dissolved into nothingness, and she had zero desire to continue wasting her energy on him.

Her mind drifted back to the mountain pass. She was seventy percent certain that the stranger behind the wheel of that domestic car was Jasper. The precision of his racing lines was a reflection of the lessons he had beaten into her, a style she recognized instantly.

Yet she couldn’t understand why he was actively hiding from her.

A fierce wave of irritation surged in her chest, the volatile temper she had fought so hard to suppress threating to break through her calm facade once more.

Suddenly, her phone vibrated violently in her purse.

She pulled it out to find an international number flashing on the screen mining operations overseas.

She accepted the call instantly. “Hello” What’s happened?

was Xavier calling from their

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“Tatiana, Tammy has completely vanished!”

“What?”

Tammy had indeed disappeared.

Initially, Xavier had assumed she was merely running a late errand and had been delayed on her return. But when forty-eight hours passed without a word and her mobile line remained entirely disconnected, a deep sense of dread took hold of him.

He had personally launched a search party, tracking her final movements back to the small family running the local hot dog stall near the edge of the market. From them, he learned that Tammy had arrived three days prior, engaged in a brutal street fight to drive away a gang of local thugs, and had never been seen since.

Sensing foul play, Xavier had deployed their security detail to scour the surrounding sectors, but they found absolutely zero traces of her presence. Terrified for her safety, he had immediately contacted Tatiana.

Hearing the news of the disappearance, Tatiana found it impossible to remain still. A desperate urge to board the very first flight back to Mine No. 9 took hold of her.

“Keep the men on the ground searching,” she ordered, forcing her voice to remain steady. “I am going to text you a highly restricted contact number. Call them immediately, give them my name, and they will deploy their own networks to help you locate her.”

“Understood.”

The moment the line went dead, Tatiana forced herself to analyze the situation calmly, and a specific individual instantly flashed in her mind.

Could he have taken her?

Without a second of hesitation, she dialed Norman’s personal line. The phone rang for an absolute eternity before a rough voice finally filtered through the receiver. “Hello?”

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