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CHAPTER 253
“I told you,” Raymond said, his words cutting through the quiet of the warehouse like a knife through silk, “that you should not lay your hands on her.”A pause.“And what did you do?”Another pause, longer this time, filled with the sound of someone breathing very, very carefully.“You defied me.”For a long, frozen second, the men in the warehouse did not move.They simply stared.Raymond stood behind Melissa’s chair, one hand resting gently against the back of her neck. In his other hand, he held the man who had been about to pull her teeth. But he did not hold him by the arm, or the shoulder, or the collar.He held him by the neck.The man’s body was limp, his head tilted at an unnatural angle, his eyes wide and unseeing. Raymond held him with an effortless, almost casual grip, like a man holding a heavy sack. He did not look strained. He did not look angry. He looked calm, and focused, and utterly, terrifyingly still.The men could not understand how he had gotten in. There had b
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The boss of the gang sat quietly in the far corner of the room, his fingers still typing away on a laptop as he listened to the conversation end abruptly. He did not look up immediately. He let the silence stretch, heavy and thick in the light of the warehouse. Then, slowly, he closed the lid of the laptop.The clicking sound was sharp, final.“Who the hell does he think he is,” the boss said, his voice low and dangerously calm, “to end a call on us? I cannot imagine someone being this cocky. This proud.”He rose from his chair, his movements deliberate, his eyes fixed on Melissa, who was bound to a chair in the center of the empty space. He walked toward her, each step slow and measured, the sound of his boots echoing on the concrete floor.“Well, since he really wants us to do it the hard way,” he continued, stopping a few feet in front of her, “we are going to do it the hard way. Not just the hard way. We are going to do it the most terrible way so terrible that he will know he has
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Raymond's laugh cut through the line like a blade, sharp and cold and utterly devoid of humor. It was not the laugh of a man who found something funny. It was the laugh of a man who had just been handed exactly what he needed—a reason to stop holding back.“Do you think this little threat of yours is going to scare me?” Raymond said, his voice dropping low, each word measured and deliberate, like the hammer of a gun being pulled back. “No. I will never be scared of a threat from someone like you. So let me make something very clear to you. By the time I arrive, and I see what you have done to her, that is going to determine exactly what I am going to do to you.”He paused, letting the silence stretch just long enough to carry weight.“Whether I kill you violently. Whether I kill you slowly. Whether I make you suffer so miserably that you will beg for a death that does not come. Whether I debone you myself, piece by piece, to erase every single ounce of pain you have inflicted on her—
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Madam Veronica laughed, and the sound of it was rich and full, the kind of laughter that came from somewhere deep and genuine, the kind that made the people around her feel lighter just by hearing it.“Why are you making me laugh?” she said, shaking her head slowly. “Just imagine what you are saying. Yes, I know what you are capable of doing. I have seen it today with my own two eyes. I have watched you dismantle a situation that would have crushed most people. I have seen the cars, the lawyers, the hospital, the way you carried yourself like a man who has never once doubted that he would win. I know what you can do, Raymond.”She paused, her laughter fading into something softer, more maternal, the look of a woman who had watched him grow from a boy into someone she no longer fully recognized but still cared for deeply.“But that does not mean you should put yourself under more pressure just because you want to satisfy my needs. I was joking, Raymond. I do not need my restaurant to b
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Immediately Megan stepped forward, her eyes fixed on Raymond with the kind of certainty that came from knowing someone long enough to read the spaces between their words.“You should go,” she said. “I know that call was important. You're trying to make it seem like it isn't, but I can tell.”Raymond shook his head, forcing another small smile onto his face. “No, it is not important. Like I told you before, I will handle it later. We can continue with what we were doing. It will not be an issue.”Megan shook her head right back at him, not letting it go. “I know it is important. You are just trying to make it look like it isn't. But what I really want to say to you can wait until you finish what you need to do. In fact, I think that will give me a better opportunity, a better leverage, to talk to you properly the way I want to. So go. Handle your business. We will talk when you are done.”Raymond looked at her for a long moment. There was something in her voice, a quiet and deliberat
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Without saying another word, Raymond turned and walked away from where Madam Veronica stood. His steps were measured, controlled, betraying none of the sudden and violent alarm that had erupted in his chest, but his grip on the phone was tight enough that the edges of it pressed white into his palm.He could not understand why Melissa was calling him right now. Not at this moment, not in the middle of everything that had just happened. She knew better than to call without reason. She knew he was not someone who took casual calls in the middle of important events.But the name on the screen was hers.And so he answered.He did not wait for pleasantries. He did not soften his voice. He went straight to the point, the way he always did when something felt off.“I'll call you back, Malisa,” he said, his voice low and clipped. “I am in a situation right now. I don't think I will be able to attend to you properly.”And then he heard it.A voice, but not Malisa's normal voice. It was strain
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