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Chapter 52
The smile on Naomi Martin’s face set off a bad premonition in Joseph’s gut.Especially with the look on Alice’s face—one glance from her and he felt a chill rattle down his spine. His heart thudded once, hard.It’s over.For a split second, he wanted to crawl into a hole. He’d come back with Alice; there was no way Naomi hadn’t seen that. And Naomi knew he was a married man. With her talking like this, Joseph didn’t need to think to know she was doing it on purpose. Alice would absolutely get the wrong idea. With her temperament, she’d start wondering whether something had happened between him and Naomi—and then no number of explanations would save him.What he couldn’t fathom was why. He didn’t even know Naomi. What grudge did she have against him to aim like this?With a stunning beauty cooing at him in front of his wife, even Joseph felt like maybe there really was some secret history between him and Naomi Martin.She was trying to get him killed.“Alice, let me explain—”He was ne
Chapter 51
“Stay back, you worthless coward—don’t you come any closer!”Joseph advanced step by steady step. Charles could only retreat. He had watched Joseph bring down a black bear with his bare hands; if Joseph decided to kill him now, there would be no escape.His voice shook. “I’m warning you—don’t do anything rash! If anything happens to me, the Martin family will never let you go!”Joseph’s mouth curved in a cold smile. “Mr. Martin, when you pulled your little stunts just now, did you spare a thought for what would follow?”“Three lives thrown away to feed your selfishness. Do you still call yourself human?”His voice was glacial, like something risen from the depths of hell. The sound of it sent a shiver through Charles. Joseph had seen him shove Alice at the bear. Had Joseph been one second later, she would’ve been meat between those jaws. She wouldn’t be standing here now.Joseph had said it before: Alice was his reverse scale—the one thing no one could touch.Everything Charles had do
Chapter 50: Brawling the Black Bear
Archie Turner seethed with unwillingness.He’d sold his soul to Charles long enough to know just how ruthless the man could be—and that he meant every ugly word he said. But right now Joseph was clearly losing ground, no match for the raging black bear. Even if Archie charged in and likely got swatted to death, standing by while Joseph fought alone while he cowered in the shadows—no. As a man, as a former soldier, the blood in his veins would never allow it.“Don’t come over!”Joseph had noticed Archie. After slipping past a sweeping paw, he barked the warning. He was on the back foot, yes, but he had begun to read the bear’s weakness and set the tempo. If Archie charged in now, he’d shatter that fragile rhythm—and only make things worse.“Well, look at the backbone on this piece of trash,” Charles drawled, mockery dripping from every word. “Death’s breathing in his face and he’s still playing proud. Fine. I’ll just stand here and watch you die.” He sneered at Archie. “See that? You w
Chapter 49: Watch Him Die
“Joseph, you’ll always be trash—trash under my heel. You want a piece of me? Try living through that bear first.”Charles’s face had twisted beyond recognition. Fury had burned away the last shreds of his humanity. He wanted Joseph dead—needed it—and this time, Joseph had to die.If not for the bear, Joseph would have already finished him.“Joseph.” Alice’s voice was barely a breath. “You shouldn’t have come. Dying with you… I could accept that.”She didn’t know what to feel. She meant it—he shouldn’t have come. If he’d stayed away, only she would have died. Now with a bear in the cave, what could he do but become another course? She wanted Joseph to be a man, but not like this—not by throwing himself into a death pit.Tears glazed her eyes. If she had to die, at least she’d die with him.“Don’t talk nonsense,” Joseph murmured, smoothing a hand over her hair.His smile startled her—calm, almost gentle. “I’m here to take you out whole. That’s the promise I made you at the start, isn’t
Chapter 48: The Death of Conscience
Out of the wolves’ jaws and straight into a bear’s den.The black bear loomed fully into view—massive, well-fed by the island’s abundance. It stood a full two meters tall, a living wall that shrank Alice’s already slight frame to something small and breakable.It roared, drumming its chest with both forepaws.Their intrusion had shattered its rest; its fury was absolute. To the bear, Alice and Charles were nothing but meat brought to its door.Charles had never faced anything like it. His legs trembled, refusing command, and wouldn’t move at all.Warmth spread down his thighs, sharp with ammonia. It slicked his calves and soaked his shoes.“Run!”Alice’s brow knotted. Was he going to stand there and die?She seized his arm and dragged him backward. He moved like a puppet with its strings in a stranger’s hands—no will of his own.But where could they run? In moments the bear had pressed them to the cave’s lip. One more step and there was only the abyss. Another fall and they would have
Chapter 47: The Bear in the Cave
“Alice!”Joseph’s heart lurched, dread flooding him so suddenly it felt like something inside him had twisted tight, knotting his breath and thoughts.Not far below, he spotted a patch that broke the sheer monotony of the rock: a curtain of vines, oddly neat, as if arranged to hide something.There was no wind this far down the cliff, yet the vines stirred—just a whisper.A cave mouth.It had to be there.Fixing his line, he quickened without meaning to. If that was the place, then Alice might still be alive. He needed to see her—only then would the vise on his chest ease.Villains meet their reckoning.Charles had tried to damn Alice with him, to drag her into death—but fate flipped the blade. He’d become her cushion, crushed beneath her when they hit the ledge.His organs felt pulverized; from that height, with Alice slamming into him after, survival was a miracle. Had there not been this narrow shelf, they’d have both been smashed to pieces.Alice had hardly fared better. The pain
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