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Chapter 248: DORCAS
Gary turned, his instinct flaring. He pulled her behind him just as the handle twisted and the door swung open.Floodlight poured in. Silhouettes filled the frame —shadows with guns raised, uniforms gleaming under white light. The emblem on their sleeves reflected across the dark walls.For a split second, no one moved.And then Gary heard it—an unmistakable voice cutting through the tension, steady and sharp.“Room secure. We found them.”It was Dorcas.Gary’s heart clenched. They had found the missing persons.But none of them had any idea who the man standing between them and the broken woman on the bed truly was.****************With its black steel, polite halos for headlights, and men arranged in what appeared to be funeral rather than rescue formations, the convoy parked like an accusation. Heavy boots crunched on the drive's gravel. The Lancasters, dressed in silk and pearls, could only stare for a moment before the sound of professional movement filled the house, a sound th
Chapter 247: Why Did You Leave?
The candle flickered low, shadows crawling up the cracked wall. Evelyn’s voice, faint and trembling, still echoed in Gary’s chest long after she’d finished speaking. Each word had carved him open—pain, sadness, agony, death—all woven into a single haunting symphony.He sat there, his eyes glistening, hands clenched so tightly the veins bulged along his forearms. He wanted to roar, to tear the walls down, to rip apart the air until the whole world heard his anguish. But instead, he stayed still.“Why… why did you leave?”Her words came like a knife, small but merciless. Evelyn’s hands gripped his shirt, weak but desperate. Her eyes—sunken, hollow—were wet and wild. “You said you’d stay, Gary. You promised. You said no matter what happened, you’d never leave me behind.”Gary’s lips parted, but nothing came out. There were no words strong enough to explain.“I waited,” she cried softly, pounding his chest once, twice. “Every night, I waited for you. I thought you’d come. I thought you’d
Chapter 246: Horror!
Evelyn responded, “No.” Her eyes flew open, wide and pleading. “Don’t... don’t say that. Not yet.”He nodded, swallowing the fury. “Okay. Okay. What else? Tell me. Get it out.”She took a shaky breath, like steeling herself. Her free hand drifted to her belly which was flat now, but he knew. He envisioned her stomach full, round, the glow on her face when the baby kicked. Their little girl. He imagined her thinking of pretty names for their baby while he was away in China, playing the superhero while he would not save those dear to him.“The baby,” she said, and her voice shattered on the word. Fresh tears streamed down, unchecked. “She.. she was coming early anyway. I could feel it. But they... they wouldn’t wait. They brought some um… some alley-way doctor, the kind who does shady stuff for cash. They…” she broke down in tears again, “They said I didn’t deserve to keep her. That she’d be tainted, like me. They said they wouldn’t allow me have a child for you, a loser!”Gary’s world
Chapter 245: Rage!!
Gary took her hand then, gentle as he could, like she was made of glass. But it wasn’t soft skin he felt. It was bone. Sharp edges under paper-thin flesh, no warmth at all.Her fingers lay limp in his palm, cold as river stones. No pulse fluttering there, or if there was, it was so faint he couldn’t tell. He lifted her arm, and she weighed next to nothing—like picking up a bundle of match sticks. Her sleeve fell back, and he saw the bruises, purple and yellow, blooming up her forearm like ugly flowers.And the smell. Jesus. It hit him then, wafting up from her clothes, her hair. Not just sweat or dirt from being locked away. Something fouler, like infection mixed with despair. Rot, almost. The kind that settled in when hope had long checked out.Gary swallowed hard, fighting the bile rising in his throat. The darkness in the room didn’t help— it swallowed the edges of everything, made the shadows twist her face into something haunted. She looked... broken. Not just hurt. Tortured. Over
Chapter 244: Freedom!
Gary’s eyes snapped open, his heart pounding like a fist against his ribs. For a split second, he figured it was just another bad dream—the kind that left him soaked in sweat, staring at the ceiling back home. But no. The flicker of that single candle on the rickety table wasn’t some trick of his mind. The air down here in the basement smelled like rust and mold, thick enough to choke on. And those chains around his wrists? Yeah, they were real. Biting into his skin like they owned him.He took a ragged breath, then another. The air scraped his throat raw, like swallowing gravel. His head throbbed from whatever they’d dosed him with earlier—some crap to keep him down. But now... something shifted inside him. A spark, faint at first, like a match flaring in the dark. His power. It was trickling back, not the full rush he remembered, but enough to make his fingers tingle.Gary flexed his hands, testing it. The chains groaned under the pull. He yanked once—nothing. Twice—still holding. T
Chapter 243: "Is This Really You?"
Gary’s eyes snapped open, his heart pounding like a fist against his ribs. For a split second, he figured it was just another bad dream—the kind that left him soaked in sweat, staring at the ceiling back home. But no. The flicker of that single candle on the rickety table wasn’t some trick of his mind. The air down here in the basement smelled like rust and mold, thick enough to choke on. And those chains around his wrists? Yeah, they were real. Biting into his skin like they owned him.He took a ragged breath, then another. The air scraped his throat raw, like swallowing gravel. His head throbbed from whatever they’d dosed him with earlier —some crap to keep him down. But now... something shifted inside him. A spark, faint at first, like a match flaring in the dark. His power. It was trickling back, not the full rush he remembered, but enough to make his fingers tingle.Gary flexed his hands, testing it. The chains groaned under the pull. He yanked once —nothing. Twice—still holdin
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