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His response camebetween labored breaths, his words slurred by pain or shock. ‘I’m… okay,’ hesaid.
‘Who was that? What’sgoing on?’
‘Don't... don't know.Door... guy hit me.’ The vagueness of his reply tightened the knot of dread inElla's chest. Ella scanned for any bruises or cuts but couldn’t see much in thedarkness. But Ben was moving, breathing, alert.
The darkness aroundthem pressed closer. But deeper still was the realization that sank its teethinto Ella's heart—this violence, this intrusion, it bore the mark of her ownrelentless hunt for truth. It was a serpent coiled within their lives, strikingout from the shadows where least expected.
As she cradled Ben'shead in her lap, a hollow feeling settled in her stomach. A sudden flash ofclarity pierced through her veil of uncertainty. It was as if a spotlight hadilluminated the darkest recesses of her consciousness, revealing a truth too horrifyingto fully comprehend.
She could not shakethe chilling thought: whoever had done this had not come for Ben Carter, theman; they had come for Ben Carter, the man who’d scorned her.
Ella's memory racedback to the grainy footage of Carter's death. She reconstructed the scene inher mind's eye, each detail etched into her memory with perfect clarity.
And then it hit herlike a thunderclap, reverberating through her bones with an electrifying jolt.
The man on thescreen—the one who had taken Carter's life with ruthless efficiency—wasunmistakably the same figure who had just fled over Ben’s balcony.
The way he moved, thesame clothing—every subtle detail coalesced into a damning indictment,confirming beyond a shadow of a doubt that the threads of fate had woven atangled web around her, ensnaring her in a nightmare from which there could beno escape.
It wasn't just a hunchor a fleeting suspicion. It was a certainty that rooted itself deep within hersoul, binding her to the grim truth that everything was connected, and it allled back to her.
There was no denyingit.
Ella Dark had an angelof death on her side.
