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CHAPTER 541
Otis was walked back through the bare, fluorescent-lit corridors of the detention facility.The numbness that had settled over him during the agonizing visit with his father and uncle remained, a shield against the pain, the humiliation, the despair. His father’s broken cries of “Goodbye!” still echoed faintly in his ears, but Otis had already severed that connection.He was alone now.And entirely focused on survival.The officers didn’t escort him to the empty cell the lawyers had secured. Instead, they led him to a different block and stopped outside a reinforced steel door.It clanged open.Otis was shoved roughly into the small concrete space. The air inside was heavy and stale.Three men were waiting.They were large, intimidating figures in standard-issue jumpsuits, their postures radiating ingrained dominance. They sat on the narrow benches bolted to the walls, occupying the cell with deliberate menace.Otis stumbled, catching himself against the cold wall. A sinking fina
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Gerald looked at his son, and just from the look on his face, he could tell what had happened.Harold stared at his nephew, recognizing that they were dealing with a broken weapon, far more dangerous in its silence than it ever was in its rage.Gerald didn’t need words. The vacant gaze, the exhaustion, the quiet, profound injuries, everything finally aligned into one terrifying truth.Otis hadn’t just been waiting in a cell.His son had been physically and psychologically broken in custody.A fresh wave of desperate resolve washed over Gerald, eclipsing his personal pain and even his rage at Tedmond.“Otis, listen to me,” Gerald said, leaning toward the glass, his voice low and intense, thick with determination. “I am going to get you out of here. It might take a week, maybe less, but Harold and I will pull every string we have left. We’ll get the charges dropped, and we’ll get you out. I promise you.”Otis watched his father make the frantic, tearful vow.He didn’t smile. He didn’t
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The implication was clear: the police hadn’t been gentle, or perhaps he’d been attacked by other inmates. Either way, the marks showed he had suffered severe physical violence since his arrest.Gerald immediately tried to push his wheelchair forward, desperate to get closer to the glass.“Otis! What did they do to you?!” he rasped, his voice raw with sudden, agonizing love and guilt.Otis didn’t speak. He didn’t even acknowledge the question.His bruised, damaged eyes fixed on his father, utterly empty, stripped of the sly ambition and entitled fury that had once defined him. He seemed to stare straight through Gerald, through the glass, through the room itself, toward some distant, hollow point.He had no idea what to say. He knew he’d been here for days, and that meant his father had been powerless to help him.Gerald slumped back in his chair, the plastic squeaking under his weight, the sound echoing his despair.Harold stood silently behind him, watching.Otis didn’t need to spe
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Gerald’s chest heaved.For a moment, the fury drained from his face, replaced by something rawer—fear.“I didn’t say Tedmond came for me,” he snarled at last. “I forced him to move.”Harold stopped pacing.Slowly, he turned back. “Explain.”Gerald laughed bitterly. “Kyle. I took Kyle with me. Thought he’d be useful leverage if things went wrong.” His fingers clenched white around the armrests. “Before I even left the lodge, I gave orders. I told my men to keep Kyle’s house under constant watch. Anyone who went near it—anyone—was to be grabbed. No questions.”Harold’s eyes darkened. “You used Kyle as bait.”“Yes!” Gerald snapped. “Tedmond is obsessed with that boy. I knew he wouldn’t stay away if Kyle disappeared.” His voice dropped, venomous. “And it worked.”Silence pressed in.Gerald swallowed. “Someone came. Quiet. Too clean. They took the person my men grabbed… and the guards who tried to intervene. All of them. Gone.”Harold’s jaw tightened. “You didn’t tell me that part.”“I did
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Harold didn’t bother to look; he could identify the voice instantly.A ferocious, pain-filled shout tore through the house.“Are you still asking about that useless whelp?”The main doors to the living room burst open. Gerald was wheeled in, slumped in a wheelchair, looking utterly ravaged—pale, lined with exhaustion and rage. His left trouser leg had been crudely cut and stitched, revealing a thick bandage beneath.The grim-faced maid pushing the chair froze just inside the room, clearly wanting no part of the impending storm.Gerald snarled at her, and she quickly retreated through the door.Gerald had to grasp the wheels himself, struggling to pull the heavy chair closer to Vivian and Harold. He slammed his fist onto the armrest.“Gerald! What in the world happened to your leg?” Vivian cried, rushing forward, horrified.Gerald ignored her entirely, eyes fixed on Harold. Veins throbbed visibly on his temple as he shook with rage.“You!” he roared, pointing a trembling finger. “You
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Persis couldn’t understand where the misunderstanding had come from, nor did she know that Kyle was aware Tedmond was engaged to a Damon. He had only mentioned being engaged, not the name or family.“They were quite agitated,” Perseia continued, observing her sister like a scientist examining an experiment. “It seems Tedmond isn’t picking up his phone, nor is he answering texts, and they had absolutely no idea where he lived. Naturally, they assumed his soon-to-be Damon wife could help them.”The humiliation of the kidnapping, the condescension over the meal, all faded against this sudden, massive intrusion into her private life.Persis felt a wave of sickening dread.She had no idea they thought that way, and she would never want them to—simply because she and Tedmond were engaged and would one day be married.Perseia leaned across the desk, eyes cold as polished stone.“Tell me, Persis. Are you and Tedmond running around the city telling people—people like Kyle and Melody—that I am
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