All Chapters of His Billion-Dollar Secret: Chapter 31
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Chapter 31
"Wake up, Jayce. You're missing the show."Cold water hit Jayce's face. He gasped and opened his eyes. He was strapped to a metal chair in the center of Matilda's laboratory. His wrists and ankles were bound with thick leather straps. Across from him, Leonard was similarly restrained, blood trickling from a cut above his eye."Finally," Jason Cross stood over him, holding an empty bucket. "I was starting to think I gave you too much sedative. That would have ruined everything.""Where... where are Ella and Hailey?" Jayce's voice was hoarse."Right there. Unchanged. Still serving as our guinea pigs." Jason gestured to the glass chamber where both women remained unconscious, connected to machines. "In about ten minutes, The Ascension begins. You get front-row seats to humanity's greatest achievement.""You mean humanity's greatest crime," Leonard spat blood on the floor. "Experimenting on innocent people. You're monsters.""We're pioneers!" Matilda entered the lab wearing full surgical
Chapter 32
"This can't be real. Please tell me this isn't real."Leonard stood at the entrance to the underground facility, staring in horror at what lay beyond. Jayce joined him, looked inside, and felt sick.The room was filled with glass chambers. Dozens of them. And in each chamber was a person. Some were conscious, staring out with dead eyes. Others were unconscious, connected to machines that kept them alive but not awake."How many?" Jayce asked Colonel Patterson."Seventy-three individuals. All being held against their will. All being used for medical experiments." The Colonel's voice was tight with barely controlled anger. "Most of them are missing persons from the past ten years. People who disappeared without a trace.""Matilda's other test subjects," April said, walking past them into the chamber. "She didn't just use Ella and Hailey. She's been experimenting on people for years."Jayce entered the facility and walked among the glass chambers. Each one had a name tag. Each one listed
Chapter 33
"The Barker mansion has been completely destroyed."Agent Maria Santos—the real Agent Maria Santos, not the traitor—stood in front of a burned-out ruin. The mansion where Jayce had lived for six months as a fake delivery man was now just a charred skeleton."When did this happen?" Jayce stood beside her, looking at the destruction."Three hours ago. Right after the island raid. Someone firebombed it from multiple points. Professional job. Nothing survived." Santos kicked a piece of burnt wood. "I got here as soon as I heard. Thought you'd want to see it.""How did you get free? Last we saw, you were being arrested by fake FBI agents.""They weren't all fake. Some were real agents who'd been lied to. Once the truth came out about the traitor using my name and credentials, they released me and apologized." Santos showed him her real badge. "The fake Maria Santos is in custody now. Along with Jason Cross and Matilda Chen. They're facing multiple charges. Life in prison, minimum.""What a
Chapter 34
"How did you know I was here?"Daniel finally turned around, and Jayce felt like he was looking in a mirror. Same face. Same build. Same eyes. Everything identical except the expression. Where Jayce's face showed compassion and warmth, Daniel's showed nothing. Empty. Cold."Your footsteps. Your breathing. The way you move." Daniel tilted his head, studying Jayce. "We're twins. Did you really think I wouldn't sense when you were near?""We need to talk." Jayce lowered his weapon. "About who we really are. About our parents. About the lies you've been told your entire life.""Lies?" Daniel laughed, but there was no humor in it. "The only lies I've been told are the ones you're about to tell me. Mother warned me. She said you'd try to manipulate me. Use false stories about family and brotherhood to make me weak.""Matilda isn't your mother. She kidnapped you when you were a baby. Our real parents were Richard and Evelyn Walker.""My parents are Jason Cross and Matilda Chen. They raised m
Chapter 35
"That's impossible."April stared at Daniel with her mouth open. All her scientific training, all her years of medical research, told her that what she was seeing couldn't be real.But it was real. Daniel moved faster than human eyes could track, crossing the laboratory in a blink. He picked up a piece of broken glass and pressed it against his palm, drawing blood. Then they watched as the wound healed instantly, the skin knitting back together in seconds."The transformation was successful," Daniel said, examining his healed hand. "Every cell in my body has been rewritten. I no longer age. I no longer get sick. I can't be killed by conventional means.""You can still die," Jayce said, but his voice lacked conviction. "That healing ability has limits.""Does it? Shall we test it?" Daniel picked up a larger piece of glass, sharp as a blade. Before anyone could stop him, he sliced it across his own throat.Blood sprayed. His soldiers shouted in horror. But within seconds, the wound clos
Chapter 36
"We need to evacuate the city."The mayor of Metro City stood in the emergency command center, looking at Colonel Patterson and Agent Santos like they were insane."You want me to evacuate three million people because of one man?" The mayor shook his head. "That's not happening. Do you have any idea what that would cost? The panic it would cause?""With all due respect, sir," Colonel Patterson said, "that one man is bulletproof, possibly telepathic, and has already killed seventeen people today. He's not a normal threat.""So call in more soldiers. Call in the National Guard. But I'm not evacuating this city." The mayor turned to his advisors. "We're dealing with this like any other terrorist threat. Quietly. Efficiently. No panic.""You're making a mistake," Santos said."That's my decision to make." The mayor walked out, his advisors following.Jayce sat in the corner of the command center, watching the argument with Leonard beside him. They'd been debriefed for three hours. Told ev
Chapter 37
"You came alone. Good."Director Richard Morrison stood at the top of the Lincoln Memorial steps, wearing a dark suit and looking every bit the powerful government official. But his eyes were tired. Haunted."You said you know how to stop Daniel," Jayce climbed the steps to meet him. "I'm listening.""First, you need to understand what Project Prometheus really was." Morrison gestured for Jayce to follow him to a secluded corner of the memorial. "Your father didn't just create healing techniques. He created the genetic key to human evolution. The ability to rewrite DNA at will.""I know that. Daniel just proved it works.""What you don't know is that your father built three versions of the key. Three different genetic sequences." Morrison pulled out a classified folder. "Version One was the healing key. What you've been using to cure people. Version Two was the immortality key. What Daniel just used on himself. And Version Three...""What's Version Three?""The kill switch. A genetic
Chapter 38
"Leonard? Where is everyone?"Jayce entered the safe house to find it empty except for Leonard sitting in the dark living room. No lights. No sounds. Just Leonard, sitting perfectly still."Leonard?" Jayce approached cautiously. Something was wrong. "Why aren't the lights on?""He asked me to turn them off." Leonard's voice was flat. Emotionless. "Said the light hurts his new eyes.""New eyes? What are you—"The lights came on. Standing behind Leonard with his hand on his friend's shoulder was Daniel, smiling that cold, empty smile."Hello, brother. Director Morrison sends his regards.""You knew. You knew I was meeting with him." Jayce's hand moved toward his weapon."Don't." Daniel gestured and Jayce felt that familiar invisible force. Telekinesis. "I've been watching you all day. Following you. Waiting for Morrison to make contact. I knew he had the final piece of the kill switch. And I knew he'd give it to you.""Then why let him?""Because I wanted to see if you'd actually do it.
Chapter 39
"You knew my parents?"Jayce stared at Leonard in shock. All these years, five years of friendship, and Leonard had never mentioned knowing Richard and Evelyn Walker."Not well. But I met them once. Five years before they died." Leonard's glowing eyes were distant, remembering. "I was eighteen. In the military. My unit was hired to provide security for a medical conference in Beijing. Your father was the keynote speaker.""That conference. I remember my father talking about it. He said it changed his life.""It changed a lot of lives. Including mine." Leonard leaned forward. "There was an assassination attempt. Three gunmen tried to kill your father during his speech. My unit stopped them. I personally took a bullet that was meant for him.""I never knew that.""Your father visited me in the hospital afterward. Thanked me. Said he owed me his life. Then he did something strange." Leonard pulled down his shirt collar, revealing an old scar. "He touched this wound and it healed. Complet
Chapter 40
"JAYCE! WHERE ARE YOU?"Daniel's voice echoed across the burning city through speakers Jayce didn't know existed. His brother sounded different. Weaker. Human.Jayce drove through streets filled with chaos. People running. Screaming. Buildings on fire. The transformation sites had exploded simultaneously, and now the city was collapsing into panic.His phone rang constantly. Leonard. April. Even strangers whose numbers he didn't recognize. All saying the same thing: help us, we're dying, something's wrong."I'm almost there!" Jayce shouted into his phone at Leonard. "Just hold on!""I can't... I can feel it, boss... my body's breaking down... cells dying... aging years every minute..." Leonard's voice was getting weaker. "What did you do? What was in that injection?""I'll explain when I get there! Just stay alive!"Jayce reached Walker Global Technologies. The building was worse than before—half collapsed from explosions, fires burning on multiple floors. But he could see people insi