I was eight months pregnant with twins when my husband’s sister punched me in the stomach and demanded the transfer code to their $150,000 trust.
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Chapter 29 / 35
Chapter 29 - The Trap is Set
They chose an abandoned shipping yard on the edge of the city.
Monroe positioned heavily armed tactical units in the surrounding empty containers. Daniel insisted on being present, standing beside Eleanor in the center of the dark, rain-slicked pavement.
"You shouldn't be here,"
Eleanor whispered, her eyes scanning the shadows.
"You're my family,"
Daniel said simply, the words feeling strange but entirely true on his tongue.
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"I don't abandon my family."
A pair of headlights cut through the fog. A black SUV rolled into the yard, stopping thirty feet away. The driver's door opened, and Silas stepped out into the freezing rain.
