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    Up above, not a soul could have seen what was happening in the pitch ck. Only after confirming their pursuers were gone did the driver turn to Elliana with a grin. “What do you think? Satisfied with my skills?”

    Before Elliana could answer, the screech of brakes echoed from the road above. Together, she and the driver looked up.

    No one could see them clinging to the cliff in the darkness, but the headlights made everything up top clear as day.

    A ck SUV had stopped at the cliff’s edge, and several men in ck clothing started climbing out.

    Even in the faint moonlight, Elliana instantly recognized the man leading the group dressed in ck—Toby, head of the Evans family’s security detail.

    She barely knew him, having encountered him only once before during Carter’s explosive outburst. Yet, that single meeting had revealed enough for her to understand that Toby served as Ruben’s most trusted ally. The conclusion struck her immediately: Ruben had dispatched Toby and his crew.

    Her racing thoughts shattered as shlight beams carved through the darkness, methodically sweeping the cliff face below. Elliana and the driver pressed themselves against the frigid rock, dissolving into the shadows cast by overhanging branches.

    Ten agonizing minutes crawled by before the shlight beams finally extinguished.

    Elliana caught one of the men delivering his report to Toby. “No chance Ms. Marsh made it out alive. Nobody survives a drop from this height. The vehicles always get wrecked. We searched the entire cliff face—zero sign of Ms. Marsh. Impact must have finished her instantly.”

    Toby released a weary sigh. “Mr. Evans asked us to keep her safe, but everything happened so fast. Never got the opportunity to step in. Now we head back and deliver the news.”

    “Let’s go.” Toby pivoted and strode away, his team falling into formation behind him.

    Elliana absorbed every word, and unexpected warmth spread through her chest.

    Yesterday’s phone conversation had left Ruben’s words burning in her memory. She grasped his concern about the Campbells targeting her, yet his insistence that the Evans family had to cut ties with her felt like a knife to the heart. He’d always imed to see her as his own granddaughter, but when forced to choose between her safety and his family’s welfare—his actual grandson—she was cast aside.

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    She had assumed that call severed their connection for good. But now, after she heard this… Ruben had quietly deployed his most reliable operative to shield her. Despite everything, it seemed Ruben really did care.

    After Toby’s group departed, Elliana and the driver secured their climbing equipment and began the punishing ascent. Upon reaching the summit, they melted into the darkness.

    That very night, Elliana boarded a private aircraft bound for Ublento. She settled into Rosewood Vi, embracing apletely new identity.

    News of Elliana’s supposed death in Cadena quickly reached the Evans household. Cole wasn’t at home when the report arrived, but the rest of the family members had assembled in the living room.

    Within the Evans n, only Ruben and Jarrett possessed knowledge of the actual murder. Everyone else epted the story of a devastating car ident. However, that wasn’t the sole secret harbored within the family.

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