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Chapter 528
Chapter 528:
The boardroom fell into dead silence. The lawyers stared at their CEO in collective shock. He was abandoning his fiancée’s parents to a federal penitentiary in order to spare his ex-wife from being disturbed. It was cold-blooded. It was irrational. It was completely unlike any version of Cole Compton any of them had ever encountered.
Cole ignored their stares. He turned and walked out.
He crossed into his private office. His executive assistant followed immediately, holding a red folder.
“Boss,” the assistant said, extending the folder carefully. “We intercepted intelligence from the security team p>
𝖰𝘂𝗮𝗅i𝘁𝘆 t𝘳а𝗻𝘀𝗅𝗮𝘁𝘪oո𝘴 𝗈𝘯 ѕ.𝘤𝘰𝘮
Cole snatched it. “What is it p>
“Last night, Crawford Love’s private car broke down directly outside the Apex Bio building,” the assistant reported. “He and Ms. Erickson went to an Italian restaurant on the corner. They had dinner together. Afterward, he accompanied her to her apartment. Our surveillance also intercepted a text message Ms. Erickson sent to Mr. Love shortly after he departed, informing him that he had left a cufflink behind. He replied: ‘Thank you for letting me know. I’ll retrieve it tomorrow.’ ”
Cole’s pupils contracted violently.
He drove the expensive fountain pen down onto the mahogany desk with a force so sudden and uncontrolled that the metal nib shattered on impact. Black ink exploded across the polished wood and splattered over his knuckles, staining his skin like dark blood.
A massive wave of toxic jealousy and panic crashed over him.
He was letting the Beasley family rot in a federal holding cell rather than disturb June for a single conversation — and Crawford Love was using fabricated breakdowns and planted accessories to maneuver his way into her apartment.
Cole paced the length of his office like a caged animal, his breathing heavy and ragged. He walked to the floor-to-ceiling window and stared down at the miniature cars crawling along the street far below.
A desperate, reckless impulse took shape in his mind.
He could not wait any longer. He had to see her. Even if she screamed at him. Even if she humiliated him publicly and had him removed. He had to see her face. He had to know that Crawford had not already taken her somewhere he could not follow.
Inside the highly secure P3 laboratory at Apex Bio, the air hummed with the low, steady pulse of expensive machinery.
June sat on a stool before the main computer terminal. She had been working for thirty-six hours straight. Her eyes were bloodshot, and dark circles shadowed her pale skin, but her gaze remained razor-sharp, locked onto the data scrolling across the screen.
The mass spectrometer was running its final simulation. The curve on the display strained to meet its target parameters — the specific algorithm that would allow their Gen-2 targeted cancer drug to successfully cross the blood-brain barrier.
Chloe, her assistant, stood just behind her, holding her breath, hands curled into tight fists. She was too nervous to blink.
A sharp, clear ding rang from the computer speakers.
A green box flashed on the screen: Match Probability — 99.8%
The core technological wall had been shattered.