All Chapters of The Shadow God Of War Returns: Chapter 141
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CHAPTER 140
“I prefer ‘fashionably delayed,’” Shaw said, kneeling beside them and flicking the safety off the injector with a casual thumb. “Took a while to swipe the only case of the universal stabilizer from the Accountant’s private lab.”His lips curled further. “Had to talk my way past a very grumpy guy with a flamethrower. Not my best Tuesday, honestly.”Shaw’s humor vanished as he looked at Zarek. “You did the heavy lifting, kid. I just brought the antidote. Now hold her steady. This is going to sting like a bastard.”The injector hissed against Gia’s neck.&
CHAPTER 141
Shaw stood in the damp morning mist, hands shoved deep into his tactical vest pockets, watching Zarek’s silhouette dissolve into the gray horizon. The shipyard was silent, heavy, broken only by the distant, rhythmic clink of metal links fading with every step.He glanced down at Gia, wrapped in a thermal blanket from his kit. Her color was returning, but she remained deep in the stabilizer’s pharmacological sleep.“You see that, kid?” Shaw muttered, his voice losing its playful edge. “That’s what happens when you poke a hurricane. He’s out there ready to level half the city just to make sure a man stops breathing.”He let out a long, weary sigh and adjusted the oxyge
CHAPTER 142
The Accountant trembled, the desk rattling beneath his hands. He yanked a gold-plated revolver from the drawer.“Stay back! I’ll blow your head off! I made you! I broke you once, I’ll do it again!”Zarek reached across the desk. His fingers closed over the barrel just as the Accountant pulled the trigger.BANG.The bullet deformed against Zarek’s palm, flattening into a useless coin. He didn’t flinch.Slowly, deliberately, he squeezed.The gold-plated steel groaned and twisted, the cylinder collapsing into a mangled hunk of expensive
CHAPTER 143
He gripped the edges of his throne, knuckles white.“Of course you look different!” the Accountant screamed into the storm. “A boy who escapes, who is fed, who gets strong and stops being beaten every day… his face is going to change!”He paused. “But the soul, the soul is supposed to stay broken! How are you standing there looking at me without crying? How are you not screaming?!”Zarek’s grip on the Accountant’s throat tightened just enough to turn the man’s face a deep, mottled red.“That’s where your ledger failed,” Zarek whispered. “You think a soul is like a bone, that once it’s crushed, it heals crooked. But you didn’
CHAPTER 144
Zarek stood there, the tungsten bolt protruding from his shoulder like a jagged iron quill.He didn’t scream. He didn’t groan. He simply reached back with his left hand, fingers closing around the blood-slicked metal.With slow, sickening precision, he pulled.The sound of the blade scraping through muscle and against bone carried over the howling wind. As the tip cleared his skin, Zarek held it before the Accountant’s bulging eyes. He applied pressure. Knuckles white, the metal groaned, and then…CRUNCH. The high-tensile tungsten snapped, crumpling into a mangled shard in his palm. H
CHAPTER 145
Dawn cut the sky in jagged streaks of grey and gold as Zarek reached the outskirts of the residential district. He didn’t head for a safe house or a hotel. He went to the one place that would calm him down, the renovated Riggs manor. He stood before the heavy door, breath hitching in his chest. Before touching the handle, he paused, eyes sweeping the perimeter with the cold gaze of a predator. Shadows beneath the sycamores, reflections in neighboring windows, the silent, dew-drenched lawn, all accounted for.Satisfied he was alone, he pressed his thumb against the concealed scanner.Fingerprint Recognized. Access Granted.He punched in a twenty-dig
CHAPTER 146
“If they were powerful, we wouldn’t have been in that cellar,” he hissed, slamming his fist against the whiteboard. “If they were dangerous, Robert wouldn’t have been able to touch them.” A rhythmic, stabbing pain pulsed behind his eyes, syncing with his heartbeat. He stared at the names of the fifteen families. These weren’t just names; they were the pillars of the country’s economy. ‘What did my father do?’ he screamed internally. ‘What did he have that made fifteen kings want him dead? And his family too?’ Zarek began cross-referencing the family names with the land deeds. Every parcel Robert received was strategically positioned, forming a perimeter around the city. A cage. They hadn’t just paid Robert to kill the Sullivans; they had paid him to construct a wall around the aftermath. The room tilted. His vision blurred as the headache intensified, a hot iron pressing against his temples. He saw his father’s face again, but the memory had changed. Weeks before th
CHAPTER 147
Shaw didn’t answer immediately. His eyes stayed on the road, knuckles tightening around the wheel until they were ghost-white. Neon lights smeared across the rain-slicked windshield, streaks of blue and red blurring into the night. Gia pressed on, leaning closer, her gaze searching Shaw’s profile for any crack in his professional armor. “And why are you so protective of him? You act like he’s more than a partner. Like he’s… fragile. But he’s a Sullivan, isn’t he?” Shaw’s jaw clenched. “He’s Zarek, kid. That’s all you need to know.” “No,” Gia whispered, the truth she had been holding back for weeks rising to the surface. “It’s not all I need to know. The Accountant called him Grisha. My mother… she talked about a boy who died in the fire. But Zarek has the scars. He has the eyes.” Her breath trembled. Her heart hammered against her ribs. “He’s the one, isn’t he? He’s my missing brother. He’s part of the child. He’s Grisha Sullivan.” Shaw didn’t offer a witty remark. He didn’
CHAPTER 148
The blow was precise, a clinical strike to the side of her neck, bypassing bone and hitting the nerve with calibrated force.Gia’s eyes widened, her sharp retort dying in a soft, surprised puff of air. The fire in her gaze extinguished instantly, her nervous system resetting. Her body went limp, her head lolling back against the headrest as darkness claimed her.Shaw caught her shoulder before her forehead hit the dashboard, his expression pained but resolute. He steered with one hand, pulling the SUV onto a dark, overgrown service road a mile from the manor.“Sorry, kid,” he whispered, voice hollow in the quiet cabin. “But if you’re right about who he is, the man inside that house isn’t going to be… stable. You don’t hunt someone with family. It only makes them scream.”He reached into the back, pulled a thermal blanket, and tucked it around her. He adjusted the seat, reclining it slightly so she wouldn’t wake with a cramped neck, and checked her pulse. It was steady. Strong. She
CHAPTER 149
Though Shaw pleaded with him, Zarek’s eyes remained blank, deaf to his friend's voice.The grip tightened. Shaw’s vision grayed at the edges. He could feel the raw heat radiating from Zarek’s skin, a fever burning through his body. Just as Shaw’s strength began to fail, the central monitor behind them unleashed a piercing, high-frequency alarm.The sound was a jagged electronic scream that tore through the heavy air of the sanctuary.THERMAL PURGE INITIATED. 120 SECONDS TO CORE OVERHEAT.The pitch acted like a physical blade, slicing through the violent trance that gripped Zarek. His pupils, once blown wide and vacant, suddenly constricted. The dark voids of his eyes snapped back into focus, landing on Shaw’s purple, straining face.Zarek recoiled as if struck by lightning. He released Shaw’s throat instantly, hands trembling as he scrambled back. His boots skidded on scattered ledgers until his back hit the whiteboard.Thud!It went, smearing the names of the Fifteen Families wit