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CHAPTER 769
"Oh, look at you!" Perseia giggled, wiping a mock tear before straightening her posture. "Relax, Persis. You look like a cat guarding a bowl of cream. I’m joking! I have no intention of stealing your Tedmond." She waved a hand dismissively, the diamonds on her fingers splintering the morning light. "He’s far too brooding for my taste; I prefer men who aren’t constantly calculating the trajectory of every person in the room."Perseia’s gaze sharpened. "Besides, I have my own targets. I just wanted to see if you still had a spine under all that legal jargon. It seems the boy, excuse me, the man, has been a good influence."Tedmond didn't relax. His eyes remained fixed on Perseia, his jaw set like stone. "If the comedy special is over, we have an appointment to keep.""Not without Persis, you don't," Perseia countered, her humor evaporating into a stubborn pout. "I didn't drive like a maniac just to talk to the wallpaper. Persis, get your bag. We’re leaving.""I am not going, Perseia
CHAPTER 768
The morning sun spilled across the duvet as Persis lay propped against a mountain of pillows, a heavy, leather-bound thriller resting in her lap. She traced the printed lines with a restless finger, her mind drifting from the plot to the unnatural quiet of the house.The silence was a luxury she wasn't used to, yet every creak of the floorboards made her pulse hitch. She couldn’t help but wonder if the shadows were already closer than they realized.The vibration of her phone on the nightstand shattered the stillness. She glanced at the screen: Perseia.With a weary sigh, Persis slid the green icon across. "If you're calling to ask if I’ve survived the week, the answer is—""The answer is that you’re a terrible sister!" Perseia’s voice crackled through the speaker, sharp and buzzing with high energy. "I’ve been waiting by my phone for several days. 730 days! And not so much as a text. Is that how we’re playing it now? You get a man, and suddenly your own blood becomes a ghost?"Per
CHAPTER 767
His gaze shifted to a cluster of mutilated photos. They were images of Millicent and Marek in their younger days, sharing a milkshake on a park bench, fingers entwined. In everyone, Marek’s face had been aggressively scarred away. The paper was shredded where his features should have been, gouged by a knife or a fingernail until only a jagged hole remained.The man reached out, his finger tracing the void where Marek’s smile used to be. "You were just a footnote, Marek. A distraction. A fly buzzing around a masterpiece."The display continued, growing increasingly invasive, less a record of a woman and more the lair of a predator. There were shots of her swimming in a lake, captured from the shadows of the treeline; photos of her sleeping in her childhood bedroom before the highway incident; even the most mundane fragments of a life: grocery shopping, reading on a bus after refusing the car the butler had sent, tying her laces.Every move she had ever made had been documented, ca
CHAPTER 766
Moving toward the wall, he approached an intricate spread of hand-drawn maps and genealogical trees, his bloody palm dragging a jagged smear across names that dated back a century."Do you know what happens to a masterpiece when a child scrawls over it in crayon?" he whispered, his voice hitching with an unhinged tremor. He turned back, a terrifying, crooked grin splitting his face. “Tedmond... little, brave Tedmond. He thinks he’s a savior. He thinks he’s found her. He hasn't found a mother; he’s found a ticking clock, and he’s just accelerated the countdown!"He grabbed a heavy bronze letter opener and began stabbing it into the desk, over and over, the wood splintering with every strike."Several years!" he shrieked, the calm shattering instantly. "For several years, I let Harold play house! I let that pathetic Griffin worm keep her in the dark because the darkness preserves the essence! I liked how she was sold off… panic ruins the flavor!”“It curdles the markers! And now? Her
CHAPTER 765
The air in the high-ceilinged penthouse was thick with the copper tang of fresh blood and the heavy, expensive scent of Cuban tobacco, a suffocating cocktail that made the lungs ache.In the center of the wreckage sat a man who looked less like a human and more like a mountain carved from scarred granite. Stripped to his waist, his massive, corded muscles gleamed with sweat and dark spatters. He didn't just sit in the velvet armchair; he dominated it, his presence sucking the oxygen from the room. A black silk mask lay discarded on a side table, but his face currently wore a mask of far more terrifying proportions: pure, unadulterated rage.At his feet, the floor was no longer visible. A dozen men, all seasoned fighters, were piled like discarded lumber. Some were groaning, their limbs bent at angles that defied nature; others were hauntingly silent.The man reached for a crystal tumbler of amber liquid, his hand so large the glass looked like a toy.He didn't drink. He simply st
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The dialogue remained light for hours, drifting from Thomas’s failed attempts at gardening to Marek’s stories of the city’s changing skyline. The horrors of the basement and the Crossroad Men were kept at bay, locked away by the sheer force of their collective happiness.Eventually, the table fell into a comfortable lull. Millicent set her fork down and leaned back, watching the young couple at the other end. She watched the way Persis tilted her head to laugh at a whisper, and the way Tedmond looked at her, not with the predatory hunger of his father, but with a protective, profound adoration."You two," Millicent said softly, her voice cutting through the chatter with gentle authority.Tedmond and Persis both looked up, caught in the light of their own world. "Yes, Mother?" Tedmond asked.Millicent’s eyes sparkled with a hint of the girl she had been before the highway. "I’ve spent a lifetime waiting for things to be right. I’ve watched the moon through cellar bars and prayed fo
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