My Wife Faked Her Death to Marry the Billionaire

rizzle. Potholes jolted its steel frame, and the sound of distant sirens grew faint behi

following?

But they will. Wolfe's not the

white shirt-once elegant-was smeared with dust and blood. Her knuckles were raw, an

zzed louder th

s the key," Adrian said to

yscape-rows of warehouses, neon-lit bodegas, and the skeletal rise of

havior. Stock shifts. Political movements. He's feeding it data in real time and

rowned.

that maps personality-uploads memories into a virtual framework. If he

hilled. "Like d

ls. He doesn't want to dominate the world. He

t in Long Island City. The van's tires sc

Marcus called

arehouse and a chain-link fence strung with razor wire. A metal door

t. "We're five minutes early. That door shouldn'

the door. "And if

d tighter around the g

ink of fuel and rotting trash. Overhead, an L-train rattled

in his waistband. The gun felt unnatural in his hand-foreign, cold. He wasn't a soldier.

four times on

th

ne slo

opened

nt up. She motio

inside, low and hoar

ward. "Vivian Cole

partially obscured by a scarf and beanie. One eye was covered with

His voice rasped, t

ded. "He's

them in. "Come be

rs blinked in rows. Wires snaked across the concrete floor. Radios

ne?" Mar

r Wolfe before he blacklisted me. I helped write Genesis'

ranslation: you

ee bolts. "Vivian told me you embe

didn't even know it was a cipher.

orked. The algorithm hides in metaphor. Wolfe's team reverse-enginee

shed manuscript-the one you never fini

"I never sent

ptop. Wolfe had access to your cloud backups. He has everything-e

y. "I printed them.

d. "Where's t

. "In my father'

htened. "Then we g

remor hit

one f

darted to

. Three.

Armed quadcopters. Wolfe's fo

hts fli

, "They're jam

Adrian's shoulder. "That contains a decoder.

her gun. "Wh

shotgun. "I'l

an said. "

"I died the day I

. "Sewer line. Take it. I wired it to dump

didn'

-deep water. The tunnel smelled like rust, waste, and desperat

m, gunfir

cre

sil

d his fists. "

ly. "He died fighting.

lant. Moonlight broke through the storm clouds, washing t

two blocks away. Its paint was peeling

t the window as

efore Wolfe finds the

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