Hidden Variable
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- Chapitres 46
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Dernière publication mar., juil. 14, 2026
She was supposed to be terrified.
Instead, she treated the kidnapping like a vacation.
After years of hiding behind fake smiles, oversized sweaters, and exhausting normalcy, Naomi no longer remembers what it feels like to truly relax. Her quiet office job is draining, people are unbearable, and pretending to be ordinary every single day is slowly suffocating her.
Then she gets abducted by a massive Russian assassin with blood on his hands and winter in his eyes.
Oddly enough?
It's the most peace she's felt in years.
But Viktor isn't just a killer.
He's a survivor of a classified government experiment created by the one man Naomi spent her childhood admiring: her father.
Once celebrated as a genius scientist specializing in chemical weapons and psychological conditioning, Naomi's father vanished after a catastrophic incident years ago, leaving behind destroyed lives, buried secrets, and men turned into weapons.
Men like Viktor.
Now powerful organizations believe Naomi unknowingly carries the final key to her father's research hidden somewhere inside her memories.
Viktor was ordered to kidnap her.
Interrogate her.
Break her if necessary.
He fully intended to.
Until the quiet black woman he expected to fear him looked around his isolated cabin and calmly asked if there was food.
The longer Naomi stays in captivity, the more dangerous their connection becomes.
Behind her soft voice and exhausted smiles hides a mind trained from childhood to wear masks, conceal intelligence, and survive at all costs.
And Viktor is beginning to realize something horrifying:
The scientist who created him may have created Naomi, too.
Just in a different way. 🕯️
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