The Mute Bride's Secret Revenge Gamble

The Mute Bride's Secret Revenge Gamble

Shi Yue

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My stepmother held my mother's leather-bound diary over the edge of a jagged cliff. She gave me a choice: sign the marriage papers or watch the only piece of my mother I had left burn. To save the family company, I was being forced to marry Gustaf Greer, a man the world believed was a paralyzed recluse living in the shadows of his Hudson estate. They had kept me sedated in a sanitarium for years, branding me the "crazy, mute sister" while they drained my inheritance. On my wedding day, my sister Brisa sneered that I was a "mute bitch" while trying to trip me in front of the paparazzi. Elena even threatened to flush my mother's ashes down the toilet if I made a single sound. I was treated like a broken doll, sold to a man who didn't even show up to his own wedding. I sat in that cold, silent mansion, wondering why my own family hated me enough to destroy me. I didn't understand the secrets they were hiding about my mother's death, or why they were so desperate for this merger. But at 2:00 AM, the mask slipped. I watched through a gap in the curtains as my "paralyzed" husband stood up from his wheelchair with the grace of a predator. He didn't know I was the girl who pulled him from the burning helicopter wreckage, and he certainly didn't know I was the elite hacker already inside his private servers. "I'm coming for you, husband," I mouthed at the mirror, finally finding my voice.

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"Sign the papers, Alys, or the diary burns."

Elena Flores didn't shout. She didn't have to. She just held the leather-bound book over the edge of the stone railing, her manicured fingers loose, ready to let go.

The wind off the Big Sur coast whipped Alys's thin hospital gown against her legs. Her bare feet gripped the wet stone of the patio ledge, her toes curling painfully against the rough grit. A hundred feet below, the Pacific Ocean smashed against the rocks, a churning cauldron of grey and white foam.

"My mother wrote that for me," Alys said. Her voice was a rusty hinge, unused for weeks.

"Your mother was a whore who died with nothing," Elena spat. She tossed the prenup onto the wet pavement behind Alys. "Marry the cripple. Save the company. Or watch the only piece of her you have left turn to ash."

Alys looked at the diary. Then she looked at the drop.

For weeks, Alys had tracked the tides, the wind patterns, the patrol schedules. For her, this wasn't a suicide attempt. It was an exit strategy. She calculated the wind speed. She counted the seconds between the waves crashing below. High tide was coming in. The water would be deep enough in the sea cave to the left, but only if she hit the angle perfectly.

"Okay," Alys whispered.

She stepped down from the ledge. Her body shook, a violent tremor that Elena mistook for submission. It wasn't fear for Alys. It was the last of the sedatives working their way out of her system, a final, furious rattling of her cage. Elena smiled, a cold stretching of red lips.

"Good girl."

Alys bent down, reaching for the pen Elena offered. Her center of gravity shifted forward.

In one fluid motion, Alys didn't take the pen. She drove the sharpened end of it into the foot of the nearest bodyguard.

He screamed. The formation broke.

Alys didn't run toward Elena. She turned and sprinted for the edge.

"Stop her!" Elena shrieked.

Alys didn't hesitate. She launched herself into the void. The air rushed past her ears, a roar that drowned out Elena's scream. She tucked her body, angling for the dark mouth of the sea cave.

The impact with the water was like hitting concrete.

Cold paralyzed her for a second. Salt burned her eyes. A sharp, searing pain shot through her shoulder as it connected with the water at the wrong angle, a brutal reminder that even the best-laid plans have a price. She kicked hard, her lungs screaming for air, and surfaced inside the gloom of the cave. She dragged herself onto a shelf of rock, gasping, her skin stinging from the slap of the ocean.

She was alive.

Alys checked her pulse. Fast. Too fast. She needed to move.

She climbed up the jagged interior of the ravine, away from the ocean, away from the sanitarium. The fog was thick here, a wet blanket that hid everything.

Then she smelled it.

Jet fuel. Burning rubber.

Alys froze. She crouched low, moving through the scrub brush until the shape emerged from the mist. A small helicopter, twisted like a crushed soda can against the canyon wall.

Smoke curled from the engine. The pilot was slumped over the controls, gone. But a few yards away, a man was dragging himself through the mud.

He was convulsing.

Alys knew she should have kept running. Every second she stayed was a second Elena's men could find her. But the man's hand clawed deep into the dirt, his knuckles white, fighting for an inch of ground.

She crept closer.

He rolled onto his back. His eyes were bloodshot, the pupils blown wide. He tried to lift a gun, but his hand was useless, a dead weight. The weapon slid into the mud.

"Help," he wheezed.

Alys knelt beside him. She checked his eyes. Pinpoint hemorrhages. Muscle rigidity.

"Neurotoxin," she muttered. "Someone really wants you dead."

She looked at his wrist. A Patek Philippe, shattered face. And a tattoo on the inside of his wrist-a geometric raven.

Alys didn't know him. But she knew he had an encrypted comms unit in his pocket. She saw the bulge.

"Don't move," Alys said.

She reached into her wet hair and pulled out the metal hairpin she'd sharpened against the sanitarium wall.

The man's eyes widened in panic. He thought she was there to finish the job.

"This is going to hurt," Alys said.

She pressed her thumb against the base of his skull, finding the nerve cluster. She drove the pin in.

He gasped, his body arching off the mud.

"Breathe," Alys ordered. "I'm blocking the nerve receptors. It buys you twenty minutes."

He stared at her. His vision must have been blurring, but he locked onto her face. Alys was just a ghost in a wet gown to him.

"Who..." he choked out.

"Quiet."

Alys reached into his pocket and took the comms unit.

"Payment for your life," she said.

The sound of rotors cut through the air above them. Searchlights swept the fog.

Alys stood up. The man reached out, his fingers brushing the hem of her gown, trying to anchor himself to the only thing keeping him alive.

"Wait," he rasped.

Alys pulled away. She turned and vanished into the mist, leaving him alone with the wreckage.

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