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Chapter 53
Blake spread the pictures on the table in front of his reporter friend. “I’m sorry, Blake, but I don’t cover news like this anymore.” Blake pulled a cigarette from the pack. “How fast can you get this on the news?” he asked, ignoring the refusal like it didn’t exist. “Blake… I’m not into this anymore. I only cover authentic news.” Blake lit the cigarette slowly, deliberately, as if nothing else in the room mattered. “Blake…” “Ten million dollars. Depending on how fast it can make it to the news.” The reporter gulped. Ten million… more than two years of his salary. He glanced at the pictures again. Disturbing. Enraging. Potentially explosive if released. Could even earn him a promotion if positioned well. “All you need to do is remind everyone of the rape that happened three years ago and that the man is out of prison, living as if nothing happened. You could even add that the victim is still recovering,” Blake continued. The reporter swallowed hard. Ten million… “If you can
Chapter 52
“This idiot begged at the last minute to join—and he tagged along with this guy,” the scowling man said, jabbing at Edward with a finger. “Wait a second. Does that mean…” a woman asked, staring Cole dead in the eyes. “…you don’t have the money to pay for the bidding you made?” “Are we a joke to you?” another demanded. “Or is this some kind of game?” “There’s an evil spirit in here!” a recovering security man shouted, rushing in. “I was floating! Then I hit the floor—I couldn’t scream! And the guy I shot—he disappeared right in front of me!” Everyone stared at him in disgust, then turned their attention back to Cole. “I’m not making this up—” The scowling man slapped him. He collapsed to the floor, blacked out cold. “You will not leave this room alive until you tell us where that artifact is,” the scowl commanded. “Start talking.” The others in the room backed off, taking seats to watch Cole get beaten. He focused, trying desperately to use the ring to escape with Edward, but
Chapter 51
Outside, the researcher hurried to the restroom, a tight plan in his mind: tuck the artifact under his shirt and slip past unnoticed. Wrapped as it was, recognition wasn’t likely.He made it just in time. The artifact tucked safely under his shirt, he stepped out into the hall, scanning for the inevitable.The timing was razor-thin—security men were already rushing past him.“I saw him enter this area,” one barked at the others.The researcher pushed his pace, careful to blend in until the moment he had to run.“This is him!” one of the bastards shouted.“Fuck,” the researcher cursed under his breath, breaking into a sprint. Then, disaster—he tripped, falling face-first onto the marble floor. Blood blossomed across the polished surface.Weak hands instinctively clutched the artifact to his chest.One security man descended on him, yanking the artifact free and dragging it away. The same man raised his boot, ready to crush the researcher where he lay.Then—weightless. The force hit. Li
Chapter 50
The whole room fell into a grave, almost suffocating silence. The only sound that dared to puncture it was the sharp clatter of a cup hitting the floor, scattering across the marble.“I'm sorry…am I the only one who just heard that?” The man holding the microphone’s voice trembled, disbelief dripping from every syllable. “Three…three hundred billion dollars?”Cole maneuvered through the stunned crowd toward the front, where the artifact rested under its glass case. He squinted at it, trying to decipher its appeal. It wasn’t a toy that would make a child squeal with delight, nor did it possess the kind of elegance that demanded an adult’s reverent attention. Yet here it was, at the center of everyone’s greed and expectation.“I will pay three hundred billion dollars for this,” Cole repeated, louder now, the weight of the statement dropping like a bomb across the room. Every head turned, eyes locked on him, disbelief mingling with envy.Even the sum of all the artifacts combined at this
Chapter 49
At first, Cole thought they were going to look at him twice because of how casually he was dressed or something, but he was surprised when they didn’t do anything. Instead, they acted like they were used to seeing people dressed like this here.Inside the building was a whole different case from the outside. Anyone who was rich with ten million dollars in his account only had to come here, and he’d leave down with depression that, if not taken care of, wouldn’t leave for the rest of his life.Because, how would there be all these wide marble steps, stone pillars, polished marble floors, chandeliers, and sweeping staircases decorating this place like this?The room was a grand ballroom converted into the auction chamber.The men in black bowed and left after Edward and Cole had both been seated.Cole noticed that Edward didn’t move, almost like he was used to rooms like this.Everyone in here was dripping with money and attitude. Servers moved around discreetly amidst the gentle playin
Chapter 48
Tyler got intel that Amanda was somewhere on this street, and he had immediately dressed in his most expensive suit, ordering his driver to get him here as fast as possible.How the hell Amanda had managed to arrive here before him was still a complete mystery to Tyler.The car slowed as a cop waved them to a stop.The man came over to the window, eyeing the driver first, then Tyler. Tyler straightened his suit. Surely, no cop would dare question him once they saw the hundred-million-dollar, limited-edition threads he was wearing.“Who are you, sir?” the cop asked.Tyler raised a brow. Does this idiot not follow the news? He’d been on national TV twice. “Tyler Whitemore,” he said, suppressing the 101 comments flooding his mind.“And Mr. Tyler, what business do you have here?”Tyler adjusted his suit again. Either this man was profoundly dumb—or hopelessly bold. “Do I have to tell you that?” he asked with a polite, condescending smile.“I’m afraid, yes. No one here gave any notice that
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