The Weight Of Leaving by Riven Kade novel Chapter 66

The call was on speaker.

Every word came through loud and clear.

Richard hung up and turned to me, eyes bloodshot, voice ragged.

“Rowan… you heard that, didn’t you? This isn’t just about saving your sister anymore–it’s about completing Nathan’s

rescue plan. This is an order!”

I yawned, unbothered, and didn’t even look his way.

That was when a commotion broke out just outside the detention center.

Several of the missing students‘ parents had somehow caught wind of my location and rushed over.

The moment they saw me, they dropped to their knees in unison.

“Dr. Carter! Please! I’m begging you–please save our children!”

“She’s our only daughter, please, she can’t die down there!”

Their cries and pleas echoed through the hallway like a chorus of desperation.

I looked down at them from behind the bars, my eyes cold as ice.

“What do their lives have to do with me?”

The room went dead silent.

They stared at me in disbelief, as if I’d just turned into something inhuman.

Then one of the mothers scrambled for her phone and held it up, screen glowing with a screenshot of a bank transfer

“Don’t say it has nothing to do with you! Look–this is the payment my daughter made for your so–called research

sponsorship

“She told us you demanded five grand every month, or she wouldn’t be allowed to work on any projects or even

graduate

“You controlled her entire future! And now you’re going to abandon her?!”

The others followed suit, one after another pulling out their phones–proof after proof, like hammers slamming downt

on my name

“She’s right! We paid too!”

“All of us did! For two whole years!

Richard’s face turned a furious shade of crimson. He trembled as he pointed a shaking Binger at me

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“You… you heartless disgrace!”

“Not only are you cold and unfeeling, but now I find out you’ve been extorting your own students? How corrupt and filthy

can you be?!”

“You’ve brought shame to the Carter family!”

He roared the words like I’d committed some unforgivable crime.

But we both knew the truth.

That account?

It wasn’t mine.

It belonged to his precious golden child–Aubrey.

Their pleas, their outrage, even their threats of self–harm didn’t move me in the slightest.

I remained silent, detached–an observer watching a farcical stage play unfold.

Time ticked on.

The golden window for the Neptune–X rescue was slipping away, second by second.

Meanwhile, the internet had erupted into full–blown hysteria.

#ChiefEngineerRefusesRescue

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