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    “Don’t worry. I’ve already had someone start digging into it. We should hear something soon,” Grant said to the Delgado couple, trying to sound calm.

    The Delgado couple thanked him over and over, but their overwhelming concern still gnawed at them. With every passing second, their children could be shipped to another region entirely. Those traffickers moved quickly, and by the time any news surfaced, their kids might already be lost somewhere out of reach.

    As the Delgado couple waited, clinging to hope for any word on Kole and Cassie, what reached their ears instead was unsettling news about the Reed Group.

    “What? Someone’s spreading rumors about ourpany’s finances? And the stock is tanking?” Grant was stunned as he absorbed the devastating news from the caller. Just a few hours ago, while out golfing, he’d spoken with some executives about the Reed Group’s bright future. How had it all unraveled so fast?

    Grant hung up the phone, stunned and shaken. Was the Reed Group actually on the verge of copse?

    “Grant, what happened? How could thepany’s finances be in trouble? Who’s spreading those rumors? We have to find them and make them pay!” Martha raged. Already on edge from the silence surrounding their daughter, this news hit her like a p, and she was ready tosh out at whoever had caused it.

    “Rumors aren’t the real problem,” Grant said, his face grim, a surge of panic bubbling beneath the surface.

    “Then what is?” Martha asked,pletely baffled.

    “The person behind those rumors says they’ve got proof—actual evidence—of our illegal dealings with the Delgados. They’re threatening to make it public. And they said no one can save us… Anyone who tries will be dragged down too,” Grant replied, his face turning deathly pale.

    The words “evidence of illegal dealings” struck like a lightning bolt. The four immediately thought back to the dirty work they’d done in the past. Their faces went ghost-white.

    The Delgado couple were so overwhelmed with fear that their legs gave out, and they crumpled to the floor, drained of all strength. “We’re finished…”

    The Reeds and the Delgados were well aware that if their crimes ever made the front page or blew up online, they could kiss their normal lives goodbye. They’d be rotting behind bars for the rest of their miserable days. And even if they were released one day, the families of those victims—along with every soul who hated their guts—would make sure they paid for it, day after day, for as long as they lived. On top of that…

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    Alita suddenly had a terrible thought. She jolted upright, her eyes going wide with horror. “Could it be that Kole and Cassie were taken by this person? Perhaps our enemies found out something and now they’re out for revenge? The timing is just too convenient—just when we noticed our kids were missing, the Reed Group was exposed for having issues. This isn’t a coincidence. Someone’s clearlying after us.”

    Her words hit like a lightning bolt, triggering a wave of realization through the room. The four of them exchanged nces, each beginning to feel that her theory made a disturbing kind of sense.

    Martha grew more and more unsettled and urged anxiously, “Grant, we need to find where our daughter and their kids are—fast. Make the arrangements. We have to bring them back before things get worse.”

    Grant already had ns of his own, but he didn’t intend for the Delgados to find out. If things spiraled out of control, he was fully prepared to throw the Delgado family under the bus to shoulder all the me.

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