Chapter 21 - The Safehouse in the Ridge
Julian decided he could no longer keep Lily at the Palm Beach villa while Victoria was at large.
He loaded Lily and Martha into his armored SUV, driving north toward a secluded mountain estate in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
The house belonged to Julian's family—a heavily fortified stone lodge sitting atop an isolated pine ridge in Virginia.
"We'll be safe here, sweetheart," Julian assured Lily as he carried her inside the cozy, warm living room.
Martha immediately began preparing dinner, locking the heavy oak shutters over every window in the cabin.
Julian set up a satellite communication terminal on the dining table, connecting directly to the FBI command center.
"Agent Vance, have you located the boat?" Julian asked through the encrypted voice link.
"We found the boat abandoned near Key Largo, Julian," Agent Vance reported grimly.
"They used a private helicopter to jump north... radar lost them near the Virginia state line twenty minutes ago," she warned.
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Julian froze, realizing Victoria wasn't trying to flee to South America—she was coming straight for his daughter.
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