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Chapter 106
At that moment, Marcus, still held firmly by the security guards, finally spoke, and when he did, his voice carried a quiet, simmering frustration that had been building steadily throughout the entire ordeal, the kind of frustration that belongs to someone who has endured more disrespect than they initially believed they would need to tolerate."So after all of this," Marcus said, his tone edged with incredulity, "after everything, this is actually who you people brought?"He paused, shaking his head slowly."If it were not for Penelope, if it were not for the respect I have for her, what would I even be doing here receiving this kind of humiliation, this embarrassment from you people? What reason would I possibly have to stand here and endure this if not for her?"The moment the words left his mouth, Vincent's face flushed with renewed anger, his entire body tensing as though Marcus had struck him physically."Will you keep your mouth shut?" Vincent snapped, his voice rising sharply.
Chapter 105
At that moment in time, the door swung open with an abruptness that seemed to freeze everyone mid-motion, and the young man's father entered the room, his presence immediately commanding attention not through aggression but through the sheer weight of authority that came from years of being the head of this household, and the moment he crossed the threshold, his eyes swept across the scene with sharp, searching urgency."Is my mother back yet?" he asked immediately, not bothering with preamble or pleasantries. "Is my mother back yet?"Vincent shook his head, and the look on his face was not simply anger, though anger was certainly there, written in the hard set of his jaw and the tension radiating through his shoulders, but beneath the anger was something deeper, something far more unsettling: a kind of devastation, the look of someone who feels betrayed not just by circumstances but by trust itself, by the people he had been raised to believe would never lead him astray."No, she's n
Chapter 104
At that moment in time, as the security guards advanced closer toward him with a slow, deliberate menace that was clearly meant to intimidate before any physical contact was even made, their expressions carrying that particular blend of disgust and barely restrained violence reserved for men who have been given explicit permission to be rough with someone, Marcus found himself unmoved by their presence, his attention remaining fixed instead on the two people in the room who actually mattered in that moment: the young man whose fury had summoned this small army, and the girl lying motionless on the bed, her chest rising and falling in shallow, labored breaths that seemed to grow more strained with every passing second they wasted on this entirely unnecessary confrontation.He looked at her for a long moment, his expression unreadable, and then he turned his gaze back toward the young man, and when he spoke, his voice carried none of the fear or urgency one might expect from a man surro
Chapter 103
The young man stood frozen for a moment, caught in an agonizing suspension between instinct and obligation, because he genuinely did not know what he was supposed to do, whether to obey the demand of this strange, unsettling man his mother had vouched for sight unseen, or to refuse outright and trust his own judgment instead. He searched his memory desperately, trying to recall anything, any article, any documentary, any passing mention anywhere in his life that suggested undressing a patient before treatment was something real physicians actually required, and he found nothing. No memory offered him reassurance. No precedent existed to validate the request.And yet, despite his unease, despite every instinct screaming at him that something about this did not sit right, he found himself nodding slowly."Well," he said, his voice tight, "I will undress her. But after I undress her, what exactly are you going to do next?"Marcus answered without pause."Once you undress her completely,"
Chapter 102
At that moment in time, without wasting another second, Marcus followed closely behind the young man who walked ahead of him with brisk, purposeful strides, the kind of walk that belonged to someone navigating a familiar house under the weight of an unfamiliar crisis, a young man who, by every visible marker of resemblance in the set of his jaw and the particular way his eyes carried both authority and worry, was unmistakably Penelope's son, moving now with Marcus trailing a half-step behind him through corridors lined with portraits and polished floors that gleamed faintly under the soft amber lighting fixed into the high ceilings above them.They did not speak as they Walked.There was nothing comfortable to say between two men who had only just finished a confrontation neither of them had fully resolved, and so the silence that stretched between them carried within it all the unspoken tension of an uneasy truce, a fragile agreement extended not out of trust but out of necessity, an
Chapter 101
The guard seized his moment immediately, pointing at Marcus with barely restrained vindication."It's him," he said. "He is the one who has been talking all sorts of nonsense since the moment he appeared at this gate. Not just nonsense — he has been causing trouble, making it look as though I don't know what I'm doing, making a mockery of Madam Penelope by throwing her name around like it means nothing, claiming she called him, claiming she wants to see him, acting as though he has the right to simply walk into this compound whenever he pleases. I was trying to chase him away."The young man's gaze settled on Marcus with an intensity that was not hostile so much as it was carefully evaluating."So," he said, his voice measured now, each word placed deliberately, "what exactly are you? What is your purpose here?"Marcus met his eyes without flinching."I'm here because Penelope called me," he said simply. "She explained the situation to me, told me what was happening, and asked me to c
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