Chapter 66 Race Against Time

• "Eve, they threatened to kill you," he said, his voice steady but thick with pain. "They said if I didn’t accept their demands, they would kill you. You could have died, my child."
• Eve opened her mouth to speak, but no words came. Her father’s words hung heavily in the air, thick with the weight of the truth. The gravity of his confession made her chest tighten, suffocating her with its urgency.
• "What do you mean, father?" she whispered, her voice barely audible, as though the words were foreign to her.