Chapter 4: Unseen Motives
The hospital corridor was quiet now, the chaos of the earlier emergency fading into the background. Mira's eyes kept drifting toward the door where Cyan had disappeared, his presence lingering like a question she couldn't shake.
She couldn't stop thinking about his warning—sometimes the shadows have more truth than the headlines. What did he really mean? And why had he been so cautious around her?
Her phone buzzed again. Another anonymous message: Stop digging.
Mira clenched her jaw. Whoever was behind this wanted her to back off, but she wasn't about to run.
Meanwhile, Cyan was watching from a distance, his mind calculating every possibility. His mission was clear: protect the information at all costs. But now, Mira was tangled in his world—and that complicated everything.
He remembered her fearless eyes, the way she refused to back down. Maybe, just maybe, she could be more than a liability.
But trust was a dangerous game, and in their world, no one was truly who they seemed.