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CHAPTER 67
Maxver looked at the three of them working in perfect coordination, rivalry set aside, protectiveness operating as a single unit. The warmth in his chest had nothing to do with ginger tea.At the Purification Center, a hundred female beastkin waited in the collective hall. The concentric rings of chairs were full. Every monitoring screen displayed contamination levels between ninety and ninety five percent. The air in the room hummed with nervous energy."There's no way he drops all of us below fifty." A wolf beastkin in the third row whispered to her neighbor. "A hundred women at once? Even for an S Rank that's insane.""I'll be happy with twenty percent reduction." A cat beastkin beside her clasped her hands together. "Even ten would change my life.""My cousin did an individual session with him last week." A deer beastkin leaned forward from the row behind. "She went from ninety three
CHAPTER 66
The three women looked at the faint circles under Maxver's eyes and each one felt the same quiet stab of guilt twist behind her ribs. They had spent the night arguing over who got to warm him while the man himself lay awake alone with a cold compress and an empty cup of tea. No amount of fox tails or phoenix fire or elk body heat mattered if the fighting kept him up all night.A look passed between them. Brief, silent, and completely understood. No more competing during his cycle. Take care of him together. Save the rivalry for when he is healthy enough to enjoy it.The emotional truce lasted exactly four seconds before Maxver ruined it."I lost thirty thousand Contribution Points last night." He pressed both hands to his chest and stared at the ceiling with the hollow expression of a man attending his own financial funeral. "Three spins. Thirty thousand. Gone. I got back ninety six points. Ninety six. The pointer stopped one cell away from the time travel prize and I have not recover
CHAPTER 65
Nobody won the argument. All three women stood at the foot of his bed, locked in a three way standoff that had no resolution and no exit.Maxver set his tea down and pulled the blanket up to his chin."I'm sleeping alone." His voice was final. "If I let any of you stay, I'm afraid I'll accidentally trigger all three of you and turn this bedroom into a beast zoo. Good night."Silence. Three faces processed the rejection at the same speed. Then, one by one, they turned and walked out. Autumn first, her tails drooping. Sienna second, her heating palm dimming. Chloe last, her antlers hanging lower than he had ever seen them."Good night, Master Cole." Three voices. One after another. Each one carrying a slightly different shade of disappointment.The door closed. Maxver lay in bed alone with his hot compress and his ginger tea and the absolute certainty that sleep was not coming anytime soon.He opened StarNet to pass the time. The trending page loaded and the first headline caught him im
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Chloe looked at the situation beneath the blanket. She looked at Maxver's face, which had turned a shade of red that medical textbooks would classify as alarming.Then she pulled the blanket up to his chin and tucked it tightly around his body with the calm, efficient hands of a woman who built machines for a living and did not panic over anything that wasn't actively exploding."Stay warm." Her voice was steady and practical, carrying none of the teasing or flirtation from thirty seconds ago. "Keep the blanket tight around your midsection. I'm going to take a cold shower.""Chloe, I'm sorry." His voice was muffled by the blanket he had pulled halfway over his face."Don't apologize for your body doing what bodies do." She was already heading for the bathroom. "You didn't choose the timing. Neither did I. We deal with it."The shower ran for exactly three minutes. When Chloe came out, her blonde hair was damp and her skin was slightly flushed from the cold but her composure was comple
CHAPTER 63
They rejoined the others in the lounge. Chloe was the first to notice something off. She looked at Maxver's face, at the bright clarity in his eyes and the easy looseness in his posture, and her brow furrowed."You burned through ninety percent of your Mental Power less than an hour ago." Her blue eyes narrowed with genuine confusion. "How are you already fully recovered?"Maxver reached over and pressed a single finger against her lips. "That's my secret. Don't ask."Chloe blinked against his fingertip. Then she nodded once and said nothing more.Behind Maxver, Autumn and Sienna exchanged the smallest of smiles. Two women who shared a secret they had absolutely no intention of explaining to anyone who hadn't earned it yet.Back at the villa that evening, Maxver sat cross legged on the living room floor with a pile of beast cores arranged in front of him. He picked up the first one, a marble sized sphere of compressed energy, and pressed it against his palm. The core dissolved slowly,
CHAPTER 62
Maxver closed his eyes and entered Reagan's mental world for the second time. The landscape was marginally better than the day before. The cracks in the ground had narrowed slightly and a handful of dead trees had developed the faintest ghost of color at their tips. Ten percent less contamination had given the dying world just enough oxygen to keep breathing.The White Tiger was in the same place. Curled on the forest floor, wounds still raw, amber eyes open and tracking him the moment he appeared.He approached slowly. "Marshal Sloane. I'm back. Same as yesterday. I'm going to clear what I can."The White Tiger watched him for a long moment. Then she dragged her broken body three feet backward without breaking eye contact. Same wariness. Same refusal."Alright." Maxver stopped and held up both hands. "We do it the hard way again."He extended his Mental Power as green threads and sent them fanning across the mental landscape, hooking into contamination clusters and ripping them free
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