A Woman Worth Billions Dated the Wrong Brother novel Chapter 316

They cared to keep him

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They planned to keep him

Amber POV

I stared at the tiny blinking dot on my laptop screen.

It was so faint that it almost disappeared every few seconds.

Yet it was there.

Alex.

My eyes began to sting.

All I could think about were the endless what ifs.

What if I had never shown Alex how to build the emergency beacon?

What if I had never taught him to think three steps ahead?

What if he had never insisted on adding a hidden transmitter that even I had called unnecessary?

Then another memory surfaced.

The day Alex had gone with the military after helping locate his kidnapped friend using one of his homemade tracking programs.

He had only been six years old.

Six.

He had watched soldiers work.

Asked questions.

Improved his own designs afterward.

Back then, I had laughed and called him my little engineer.

Now…

That same little engineer had managed to leave us a trail after being kidnapped.

I covered my mouth to stop myself from crying.

“Please hold on…”

“We’re coming.”

Jason placed a hand on my shoulder.

“We’ll get him.” 1

I nodded, forcing myself to breathe.

“No more what ifs.”

“No.”

“We focus on bringing him home.”

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Marcus closed the office door before speaking.

We tell the military?”

Jason answered immediately.

“No.”

Everyone looked at him.

“If this information leaked once….”

“It can leak again.”

His expression was colder than I had seen since recovering.

“We already know someone inside Sun Corporation was compromised.”

“We’ve had leaks from investors.”

“We’ve had leaks from employees.”

“We don’t know how far this reaches.”

Pamela slowly nodded.

“So we keep this between us.”

Jason looked around the room.

“No police.” 1

“No military.”

“No company.”

“No one.”

I frowned.

“What about Emory?”

Jason hesitated.

Then slowly shook his head.

“I don’t want anyone else carrying this burden.”

“The fewer people who know…”

“…the safer Alex is.”

It hurt to keep something from Emory after everything he had done for us.

But…

Jason was right.

If someone was listening…

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They plowed to keep Tor

Every additional person increased the risk.

enlarged the signal.

It was incredibly weak.

Almost impossible to detect.

I smiled through my tears.

“Only Alex…”

Marcus looked at me.

“What?”

“Most receivers would ignore a signal this weak.”

“They’d classify it as interference.”

I looked proudly at the blinking dot.

“He designed it that way.”

“He knew whoever kidnapped him might be searching for electronic devices.”

“So he made the emergency transmission almost invisible.”

Jason smiled faintly.

“Our son…”

“…is smarter than most adults.”

“And unfortunately…'”

“…far more prepared than any six-year-old should ever have to be.”

The signal continued moving across the map.

Then…

It stopped.

Pamela zoomed in.

The image resolved into a small island just off the coast of Sum.

My stomach tightened.

“No…”

Marcus recognized it immediately.

“The old mining island.”

Jason nodded.

“It’s been abandoned for decades.”

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They ploped to koup him

“The toxic gases made it impossible to reopen.”

No residents.

No tourists.

No surveillance.

It was the perfect hiding place.

Without another word, Jason grabbed the car keys.

“We’re going.”

None of us argued.

Halfway there, Jason’s phone vibrated.

Unknown number.

He answered without hesitation.

A video began playing automatically.

My blood turned to ice.

Alex.

He was lying on a concrete floor.

Completely motionless.

His hands were tied behind his back.

There were no visible injuries…

But he wasn’t moving.

“Alex…”

I whispered.

A distorted voice replaced the image.

“He’s still alive.”

“For now.”

Jason’s jaw tightened.

“What do you want?”

The kidnapper laughed.

“I’ll make this very simple.”

“You own too much.”

“Every company you remove from your corporate umbrella…”

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