All Chapters of THE RETURN OF GENERAL KAI: Chapter 31
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33 chapters
Chapter 31
Back in the mansion, Kai carried Sarah gently to the medical wing Maverick had prepared weeks ago. The surgeons on standby didn’t speak as he placed her down, they just bowed and worked.Maverick stood at the doorway, arms crossed, face grim. “The third one was carrying a Nexarath guild token. Shadow Seer’s network.”Kai didn’t respond. His gaze was fixed on Sarah’s face, pale and bruised, but breathing.“I’ve failed you,” he whispered, brushing hair from her cheek. He hated himself.Maverick said nothing.Kai stood slowly, and every light in the room dimmed. The zhilak around him coiled tighter than ever before, as if feeding off his wrath.“When she wakes,” Kai said quietly, “tell her I’ve gone hunting.”“Who?” Maverick asked. He was in no position to question his commander. He would do the same.Kai turned. His eyes were pure frost.“Everyone.”One Day LaterThe city buzzed. Whispers filled the alleys, the guild halls, even the hidden floors of the Black Market.Three assassins ha
Chapter 32
The air in the boutique had shifted.Everett stood frozen, blinking like he hadn’t just been handed the biggest embarrassment of his trust-funded life.Kai stepped closer, the silence around them so sharp it felt like glass waiting to shatter. The staff watched from behind shelves and mirrored panels. No one dared move.“I said—move.”Kai’s voice wasn’t loud. It didn’t need to be.Everett’s lips parted, then closed again, his Adam’s apple bobbing with a thick swallow. He took a shaky step back, but Kai didn’t let him off that easily.“Before you go,” Kai murmured, “let’s make something clear.”He reached into the glass case, which was now unlocked with a soft click at Clara’s command, and lifted the limited-edition chrono Everett had been mocking him for admiring. A midnight-black dial, obsidian casing, diamond-studded compass ring. One of ten in the entire world.Kai held it up with the same indifference a monarch might display a coin. “You said this cost more than my year’s rent?”E
Chapter 33
Kymani’s hands hovered over the array of herbs and powders on her apothecary counter, but her breath hitched before she could reach for the ginger root.A low hum shuddered through the space. It wasn’t physical.The jar in front of her cracked.“No,” she whispered, eyes defocusing. The familiar tug behind her ribcage,warm, divine, and all-consuming, snapped taut.Then came the vision.Like someone tearing open the clouds in her mind, Kymani was taken. She gasped, her body shivering as her consciousness was thrown into a different place, Kai’s zhilak roared like thunder across a blood-stained sky. Symbols she hadn’t seen in three years burned into the air behind him, a call to war and sovereignty. His presence bloomed like a celestial fracture across the capital.He’s back.She staggered into a shelf, glass shattering around her.A customer screamed.“Out,” Kymani gasped, clutching the edge of the counter. Her breath came in sharp bursts. “Everyone out!”The apothecary emptied in secon