Chapter 3: The Enemy Within
Chapter 3: The Enemy Within
The captured waiter refused to speak.
Even after Adrian's men searched every inch of the restaurant, they found no weapons.
Only one item stood out.
A tiny encrypted earpiece hidden beneath the waiter's collar.
Adrian stared at him.
"You've worked here for almost three years."
The waiter smiled.
"Exactly."
Emma felt a chill.
Three years.
This wasn't a random attack.
It had been planned long before the baby was born.
Suddenly Adrian's phone rang.
Only three people in the world possessed that private number.
He answered.
A distorted voice laughed softly.
"You still don't understand."
Adrian remained silent.
"The waiter was never the assassin."
The call ended.
At that exact moment...
One of Adrian's senior bodyguards quietly drew his pistol.
Not toward the waiter.
Toward the baby.
Emma reacted first.
She instinctively turned, shielding the infant with her own body.
The gunshot echoed through the restaurant.
Glass exploded.
Customers screamed.
Adrian tackled his own bodyguard before a second shot could be fired.
The traitor fought with desperate strength.
Years of loyalty...
All an illusion.
When the struggle ended, the bodyguard lay bleeding on the marble floor.
He laughed despite the blood filling his mouth.
"You were watching strangers..."
"...while your enemy stood beside you every day."
He died before revealing another word.
Emma looked at Adrian.
Neither of them needed to speak.
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The attack had never been about revenge.
Someone wanted Adrian's entire organization to collapse from the inside.
