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The Miraculous Liam Regan.: Chapter 161
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Chapter 161
Benjamin hit the floor hard and didn't even try to get up.His hands came up in front of him instead, shaking, his whole body shaking, and the words started pouring out of his mouth the way water pours out of a broken pipe, fast and desperate and completely out of control.“I'm sorry,” he said, his voice cracking on the first word. “I'm very, very sorry for everything, for all of it, every single thing I ever said to you, every bad word, every nasty thing, I'm sorry for all of it.” He swallowed hard, his throat working. “And what happened between me and Emily, that wasn't my fault, I need you to understand that, it wasn't me, it was Emily, she was the one who came to me, she was the one who pushed for it, she kept saying things about you, terrible things, that she was just managing you, that you were useless, that you were worthless, that you had nothing to offer her. I tried to push her away, I did, but she kept coming back and I'm sorry, I'm so sorry, and whatever my brother did a
Chapter 162
“There's no going back.”Liam's voice was cold and final and carried absolutely no room for argument in it.“You deserve to die. And you are going to die.”Benjamin opened his mouth.He never got the chance to use it.Liam slammed him into the ground with a force so brutal it felt like the floor cracked under the impact, and Benjamin's body just folded, his spine, his chest, everything inside him compressing all at once like something had detonated in the center of him. A sound came out of his mouth that wasn't a scream and wasn't a word, and then the blood came, pouring past his lips and down his chin as he choked and gasped and tried to make his body do something, anything, tried to move even one muscle and found that the connection between his brain and his limbs had been completely severed by the impact.He was lying there, broken and still, when Liam's fist came down on his chest.The second wave of blood that came up was worse than the first.Benjamin's mouth was working, openi
Chapter 163
Liam went quiet.The silence sat between them on the line like something with actual weight to it, pressing down on both ends of the call in different ways. On his end it was the weight of everything he had seen today, everything he was carrying, the faces and the voices and the image of that collapsed shaft and the knowledge of what was waiting for him when he finally had to stand in front of an old man and a little girl and say the words that would break their world apart. On her end, he imagined, it was just the weight of not knowing, of sensing that whatever was coming was not small and not simple.He knew he had to say it. He had known since before he even dialed her number. But knowing you have to do something and actually doing it are two completely different things, and for those few seconds he just stood there on the line with the words sitting in his chest like stones, not quite ready to let them go.Penelope's voice came through again, gentle but clear, the way she always
Chapter 164
At that moment his hand was tight around the phone now, his knuckles aching from the grip. “I don't have the connections to fight something like this on my own,” he said, and there was something in his voice now that was different from the anger, something underneath it that was rawer and more honest, the sound of a man admitting something that costs him something to admit. “I don't have access to the people who can actually make a difference. I don't have a name that makes anyone in power sit up and pay attention. I am E-level, and in this world that means what it has always meant. That my voice doesn't carry far enough to reach the places where decisions get made.” Again he paused, and when he continued his voice was quiet but steady, the way a person sounds when they have made a decision they are going to stand behind regardless of what it costs. “But you do,” he said. “You have those connections. You know people who actually have the authority to do something about this
Chapter 165
At that moment the tension in Liam's shoulders dropped just slightly when he heard her words settle into place, real and solid and trustworthy the way very few things in his life had felt recently.He nodded, even though she couldn't see it. “I'm very, very happy,” he said, and his voice carried the kind of genuine relief that doesn't need to dress itself up with extra words. “Thank you. Truly. Thank you for stepping in without hesitation. You don't know how much this means, not just to me, but to those families. To people who have never had anyone in their corner before.”There was a warmth in his voice that hadn't been there at the beginning of the call, something that had unlocked the moment she said she would help, the way a room feels different when someone finally opens a window and lets air in.A few seconds passed between them, comfortable this time, nothing pressing or heavy about them, and then Penelope voice came back carrying something lighter in it, something that had a
Chapter 166
Liam's mind drifted.Not away from the present moment exactly, but sideways, toward something that had been sitting at the edges of his thoughts for a while now, something he had noticed but hadn't had the mental space to properly examine until this exact second.Penelope's family.The daughter who died.Or who was supposed to have died.He turned it over slowly in his head, the way you turn over a puzzle piece and try to figure out where it actually fits, because something about that whole situation hadn't settled right with him from the beginning. The poison he had used on the girl hadn't been lethal. It had been designed to do exactly one thing: make her weak, make her sleep, put her body into a state that looked concerning enough to justify medical intervention but nothing more than that. He had been careful about the dosage, deliberate about what it would do and what it wouldn't do.And she had been awake before they left the estate that night. He had seen it himself, seen the si
Chapter 167
Emily went quiet for just a second on the other end of the line.Not the kind of quiet that comes from hesitation or uncertainty, but the kind that comes from genuine shock, from hearing something so unexpected that your brain has to take a moment to catch up and process what was just said to you.When she spoke again, her voice had shifted, climbing higher, sharper, carrying disbelief and something that might have been the beginning of actual concern underneath the anger."Really?" she said, the word coming out fast and incredulous. "What the hell are you talking about? What the hell are you saying right now? You are threatening Benjamin? Is that what you are trying to do? Are you seriously standing there threatening Benjamin?" She let out a short, sharp laugh that didn't sound amused at all. "Do you have some kind of death wish or what? Out of everybody you could possibly think to threaten, it's Benjamin? You must be crazy. Something is definitely wrong with you, because I cannot th
Chapter 168
Emily's fingers were moving before the call with Liam had even fully processed in her mind, pulling up Benjamin's name and hitting dial with the kind of urgency that comes from someone who has news they are absolutely burning to deliver. The phone rang. And rang. And kept ringing, the sound of it stretching out into the particular emptiness of an unanswered call, that hollow, repetitive tone that starts to feel almost personal after a while, like a rejection delivered in the most passive way possible. He didn't pick up. Emily pulled the phone from her ear and stared at the screen, her jaw tight. She called again. Same thing. The phone rang out into nothing, Benjamin's name sitting on her screen completely indifferent to how important this was, how urgent, how absolutely necessary it was that he answer his phone right now at this exact moment. He didn't pick up the second time either. "Is he snubbing me?" she said out loud, to nobody, her voice carrying the sharp edge of someon
Chapter 169
Emily sat in the car for a moment longer than she needed to, her eyes still moving over the scene outside, her mind still turning everything over and trying to make it fit into a shape she could understand.And then the other thoughts came back.The ones that had nothing to do with what was happening outside that house and everything to do with what had been building inside her for longer than she had been willing to admit.Benjamin didn't regard her.She said it to herself quietly, not with the sharp fury she had been carrying for the last hour but with something slower and more honest, something that had the particular sting of a truth you have been avoiding for a long time finally catching up with you.If he regarded her, genuinely regarded her, she would have known about this. Whatever this was. She would have received a call, a message, something. She would not be sitting outside his family home in her car finding out that something significant was happening by accident, by showi
Chapter 170
Benjamin's younger brother didn't answer immediately.He heard her. She could tell from the slight shift in his expression that he heard every word she said, but he stood there for a moment longer, his jaw tight, his eyes moving away from her face and then coming back, like he was deciding something internally, like he was figuring out how much to say and how to say it.Emily's patience, already worn thin by everything the day had thrown at her, frayed a little further."Well?" she pressed, her voice dropping lower but losing none of its edge. "What the hell is going on? What is happening in this house right now?"He looked at her then, fully, and something in his expression made her go still.It wasn't the look of someone about to deliver awkward news or explain a misunderstanding. It was the look of someone standing in the middle of something that has already gone badly wrong and is still trying to figure out how wrong it actually is.He exhaled slowly."So many things are happening