Chapter: Chapter 399After leaving the prison facility, Ethan decided to pay Lara a visit in the apartment she had been living.At first, she didn’t want to let him in. She told him to just say whatever he needed through the door, but he kept begging her to give him a few minutes to explain himself inside.Now she was sitting on the couch with red, puffy eyes from crying, while he sat across from her.He’d just finished playing the recording where Adrian confessed to killing her family. Before playing it, he’d explained everything that had gone down over the past few days.She buried her face in her palms, her shoulders shaking.“I can’t believe it,” she whispered, her voice muffled.“I can’t believe I fell for it. I can’t believe I trusted him.”Ethan leaned forward slightly.“Lara,” he said quietly.“This isn’t your fault.”She looked up at him, tears streaming down her face.“How is it not my fault?” she said, her voice breaking.“I believed him, Ethan. I let him manipulate me. I betrayed you. I put
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Chapter: Chapter 398Theo froze when Adrian finally admitted it in a cold tone."Yes, I killed them! I set the fire! I made sure they all burned because I needed you! And they were in the way!" Adrian continued, his tone devoid of emotion.Theo’s grip loosened slightly, his face twisting with shock and horror.“And honestly? It was easier than I thought it would be. They didn’t even see it coming.” Adrian added with a smirk.Theo’s jaw dropped, his face contorting with rage and disbelief.“You… you monster,” he choked out.Ethan let out a low chuckle.“What a stupid being you are,” he said, shaking his head.“You knew how he operated. You knew what he was capable of. And yet you never once stopped to question whether he’d done the same thing to you.”Tears were streaming down Theo’s face now, his entire body shaking.He released Adrian’s shirt and slumped back in his chair, his hands covering his face.“I was so blind,” Theo whispered, his voice broken.“I should’ve seen it. I should’ve known.”He let out
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Chapter: Chapter 397The moment Ethan pushed open the interrogation room door, he saw Adrian and Theo sitting in chairs that faced the entrance. Both of them had their wrists chained to the wall.Adrian looked rough—his face was pale and his eyes were hollow.He still hadn’t fully recovered.But even in his weakened state, there was still a sharpness to his gaze.“What?” He rasped, his voice hoarse.“Are you here to finally kill us?”He leaned back slightly, his chains rattling. "So you’ve decided to drop the principles of a saint King of the World?”He scoffed. "Not shedding blood and all that noble nonsense?"He tilted his head. “But I’m curious about something… How do you sleep at night, knowing dozens of people are dead because of you?”Ethan shook his head slowly, amused by the question.“Unbelievable,” he muttered, pulling out the chair across from them and sitting down.He leaned forward.“You’re sitting here, chained up, barely alive, and you’re still trying to twist the narrative,” he said calml
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Chapter: Chapter 396The Aurelius family cemetery was quiet.Ethan stood alone among the rows of weathered headstones, his hands shoved deep into his coat pockets, his jaw tight.Twenty-four hours had passed since the attack.But no one on the outside had any idea what happened.The mansion’s soundproofing had blocked every gunshot, every scream, and every bit of chaos that went down.By sunrise the next morning, they’d cleaned up every drop of blood.All the bodies had been moved, and anything that got destroyed was replaced.It was as if nothing had happened at all.However, the squad couldn't save everyone.A handful of staff members had been killed in the crossfire before Ethan’s operatives could neutralize Adrian’s soldiers.Others had been injured—some seriously, some less so.But they were alive.The three new initiates—Amara, Dmitri, and Sofia—had been saved.They were shaken, traumatized, but unharmed.Max was still recovering in the mansion’s medical wing.The bullet in his leg had done signific
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Chapter: Chapter 395Ethan burst through the warehouse door, heart hammering against his chest.There she was—Jessica—lying on the bare floor, just like he’d seen her in the call. Her gag was still in place. She looked fragile and broken—a shadow of the woman he knew. “Oh my God! Jessica!” he yelled, panic clawing his chest He rushed to her side, dropping to his knees. His hands shook as he undid the knots on her wrists first, then her ankles. Every second dragged, but finally, she was free. He pulled her gently to lean against the grimy wall, supporting her as if she might crumble to dust at any moment.Her body shook, weak from hours bound. Then, carefully, he removed the gag from her mouth, tossing it outside like poison. A faint whimper escaped her trembling lips as she gasped for air.“Jess, are you hurt?” he asked, his hands moving over her arms and shoulders, checking for cuts, bruises, anything that might be bleeding. He lifted the hem of her shirt slightly, revealing the dirt and shallo
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Chapter: Chapter 394An eerie silence settled over the forest as the gunshots stopped.The forest floor was littered with corpses of Adrian's soldiers.Ethan stood in the center of it all, untouched, , his smirk never fading.What Adrian and Lucas hadn’t known—what they couldn’t have known—was that this spot in the forest wasn’t random.Beneath their feet lay a hidden underground headquarters that served as the main base for his operatives across the country.It was where they trained, planned covert missions, and stored weapons, intelligence, and resources too dangerous to keep anywhere else.The base was enormous, stretching deep into the earth like a secret fortress.Inside were training halls fitted with advanced combat simulators, armories packed with every kind of weapon imaginable, communication centers capable of tapping into networks worldwide, fully equipped medical facilities for even the worst injuries, and living quarters for operatives who sometimes stayed underground for weeks on end.It wa
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