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CHAPTER 820
The red emergency lighting pulsed like a dying heart, casting long, jagged shadows across the room. Tedmond stood in the center of the carnage he had begun, his silhouette massive and terrifying."The extraction team is three minutes out," Tedmond said, his voice a low, vibrating hum that rattled the metal instruments on the trays. He didn't look back at Persis; he knew she was already free."Lorenzo, I suggest you start praying to whatever god still listens to the Morettis.""Kill them!" Lorenzo shrieked, scrambling toward the reinforced door. "Don't just stand there, you idiots! End them now!"The three guards at the door finally snapped out of their shock. They didn't reach for guns; the room was too small, the risk of ricochet too high, and instead drew serrated tactical knives that gleamed crimson in the strobe of the red lights.Tedmond met the first guard halfway.It wasn't a fight; it was a demolition. He caught the man’s wrist, the sound of snapping bone echoing through t
CHAPTER 819
The guards kicked the door open, revealing a room bathed in a sickening, flickering ultraviolet light. In the center stood two high-backed metal chairs equipped with nightmare restraints, cold, clinical, and designed to break a mind from the inside out."Welcome home, Washingtons," Lorenzo whispered as they were shoved toward the center of the dark room. "This is where the past goes to die."The heavy steel door groaned shut with the finality of a tomb, sealing out the distant gala music. The ultraviolet light hummed, turning the gold of Persis’s dress into spilled oil and Tedmond’s blue eyes into something spectral and otherworldly.Two men in white coats stepped from the shadows, their faces hidden behind reflective visors. They moved with robotic efficiency, unfolding a series of thin, silver needles attached to glowing fiber-optic cables."The Millicent Protocol," Lorenzo said, pacing the perimeter like a hungry wolf. "It’s not just about drugs, Tedmond.”“It’s about frequency.
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Lorenzo leaned in closer, his voice a frantic, wet wheeze. "We want to see the look on your face when you realize that Thomas wasn't the only one who watched your grandfather beg. We want to be the ones who finally put the Washington name in the sold column!"Tedmond didn't respond with anger. He didn't even stand up.Instead, he leaned back, closed his eyes for a brief second, and exhaled a long, weary sigh. It was the sound of a man who had finally heard enough."Unhinged," Tedmond murmured to the ceiling. "You’ve spent so much time in the dark that you’ve started eating your own lies."*****Three hundred yards away, the air inside the surveillance van vibrated with the hum of high-end servers. Albert sat with his headset pressed tight to his ears, fingers hovering over a glowing red override key. The audio from the necklace was coming through with crystal clarity; Lorenzo’s frantic ranting filled the monitors."He's lost it," Albert muttered, eyes tracking a cluster of green d
CHAPTER 817
"Fake," Marcella spat, her voice ringing with sharp, artificial clarity. "You come into our home, Mr. Washington, with digital 'receipts' provided by a technician hiding in a van, and you expect us to bow?"Her gaze turned serious."Do you have any idea how many times the Moretti crest has been forged in the last century? We are the architects of Mediterranean trade. Our stamps, our digital signatures, our very seal… they are the most impersonated symbols in the underworld."She took a step closer to Tedmond, her eyes wide with manic, rehearsed conviction."Any amateur with a high-end server could mirror our frequency. Any rival looking to push the Washingtons against the Morettis could have planted those logs.""There are fakes out there, Tedmond, and you've swallowed one whole because you're so desperate for a target that you've lost the ability to distinguish a signature from a shadow."Tedmond's expression didn't shift. He didn't glance at the data on his watch.He just looked at
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A collective flinch rippled through the Moretti line.Lorenzo’s eyes darted to the floor; Marcella’s stoic mask finally fractured. Even Juliette looked away, the long cigarette holder trembling in her grip. They hadn't rehearsed a lie for this. They were staring at a man who had unearthed the one secret they couldn't bury with a checkbook.The reaction was momentary, a hairline crack in a dam before the flood of denial rushed back.Lorenzo recovered first. He smoothed his silvered hair with a hand that had found its way from shaking to a rigid, unnatural stillness."Delusional," Lorenzo breathed, the word escaping as a soft, pitying huff. He glanced at the other elders, a hollow, mocking chuckle passing between them. "Mr. Washington, I knew you were grieving a legacy you barely understood, but I didn't realize you had drifted so far from reality."He stepped forward, spreading his hands wide as if appealing to the very stones of the Atrium. "Think about what you are suggesting!
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It started as a rhythmic, mocking sound that grew in volume, echoing through the Atrium like a funeral march for the Moretti reputation.“Oh, bravo!” Juliette sneered, her face twisting as she joined the clapping with violent, sarcastic energy.“The Washington woman has a speech! She’s so smart, so calculated! Tell me, Persis, does that intelligence help when the lights go out, and the doors won't open?”But the mockery of the Moretti women was drowned out by the sheer terror of the other guests. The families weren't clapping for the drama; they were realizing Persis was right.The Sokolov heirs were already backing toward the shadows, their faces ashen.The tension reached a breaking point. Suddenly, the heavy oak doors at the far end of the Atrium, the service entrance, burst open. It wasn't the guards. It was the sound of the mansion's internal alarm systems being shredded by a remote override."The doors," Lorenzo whispered, his face turning pale.Seeing the cold murder in Ted
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