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The Gilded Oath

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You guard his art, but he holds your brother's life—and the conspiracy that binds you both.

As the world's top security expert, you've been hired to protect a tycoon's priceless art collection. But when a heist goes catastrophically wrong, you discover the man you're guarding is the one who holds your brother's fate in his hands. Forced to work together to unravel a conspiracy too vast for either of you to face alone, you must decide: trust the man who could destroy your family, or risk everything to save them. In a world of secrets and betrayal, loyalty is a luxury you can't afford—and love might be the most dangerous weapon of all.

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The laser cutter whined through the vault's titanium seam, its blue light carving a perfect circle. Your hands were steady, but your pulse hammered—not from the job itself, but from what you'd found in Voss's private server an hour ago: a single encrypted file, timestamped the night your brother vanished. Kai's name, spelled out in cold data.

The alarm you'd disabled was a decoy. You realized that when the vault's inner door slid open on its own, revealing not a collection of stolen masterpieces but a wall of monitors—surveillance feeds, financial records, and at the center, a live image of your brother, bound to a chair in a room you didn't recognize.

Behind you, a voice, smooth as poured concrete: "Impressive work. But you were never here for the art, were you?"

Adrian Voss stood in the vault's entrance, a shadow against the emergency lights, a knowing smile on his lips. "I've been expecting you. Your brother sends his regards."

What happens next is up to you.

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