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Chapter 23 - THREE MINUTES “WE HAVE THREE MINUTES!”
Julian attacked the ventilation panel.
Maria searched for an emergency tunnel.
Eleanor tore through files.
One document stopped her.
A signature.
Her father’s.
The date was impossible.
Eight years after his supposed death.
“Julian!”
He looked.
Eleanor held up the paper.
“My father was alive.”
Gas thickened.
Maria found a maintenance passage.
They escaped seconds before the archive sealed.
Outside, Eleanor unfolded the document beneath a streetlight.
Her hands trembled.
Her mother had survived.
Her father had survived.
Her childhood had been built on two funerals without bodies.
At the bottom of the document was a handwritten sentence:
IF ELEANOR EVER FINDS THIS, SHE IS READY.
Julian stared at her.
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“Ready for what?”
Eleanor had no answer.
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Chapter 24 - THE MOTHER WHO FOUGHT BACK Elias finally called Eleanor.
Chapter 25 - THE GALA Elias made one final public appearance at a Manhattan charity gala.
Chapter 26 - THE EMPTY CRIBEleanor stopped breathing.
Chapter 27 - TRUST MEPier 17 was almost empty.
Chapter 28 - NO MORE EMPIRESFederal agents flooded the pier.
Chapter 29 - THE HOUSE WITHOUT GUARDSOne year later, the Sterling mansion belonged to someone else.
