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Chapter 113 — The World Learns to Fear
Rain smothered the skyline, washing away sirens. Cities across continents flickered in and out of power.Glass towers pulsed like hearts. Old satellites drifted off-course like sleepwalkers.And beneath it all, a sound too low for human ears vibrated every molecule of air. A pulse. A summons. A warning. The world did not yet realize it was kneeling. Not yet.The convoy tore across a slick, black highway engines screaming, tires spitting water like shattered glass. Inside, Zara pressed her palm against Rayyan’s cheek as though heat from her touch alone could anchor him to life.His breathing wavered. A gasp here. A faltering exhale there. A man who could break kingdoms with a glance now fought simply to exist.She whispered, not realizing her voice shook: “You don’t get to leave before the war even starts.” Monitors beeped softly. Too softly.The medic wiped sweat from her brow. “We need surgical stabilization in the next twenty minutes or"“Finish that sentence and I put you out of
Chapter 112 — What Follows a King
The night did not sleep. It held its breath. Every thundercloud, every trembling tree branch, every shivering vein of earth felt the shift, a kingdom without its king, a throne bleeding in the rain.Zara carried him. Not because no one else could, but because no one else was allowed. Rayyan’s weight pressed into her bones.His blood soaked into her shirt, hot and human and terrifyingly slow. His head rested against her shoulder, breath shallow against her collarbone, each exhale a war fought and almost lost.He felt heavier than gravity itself. He felt like consequence. Boots splashed behind her, Rayyan’s soldiers moving in formation, silent with something like reverence and dread.Their eyes tracked the man in her arms… and the woman who would not set him down even when her spine screamed. The world had narrowed to a pulse. Hers. His.And an echo of the traitor’s blade still ghosting her throat. She did not shake. She did not stumble. Zara walked like she had been carved from fury an
Chapter 111 — Blood Oath
The gunshot split the night like a scream through fragile glass. But it wasn’t Zara’s body that hit the ground.It was the operative behind her, the one who had crept too close. A bullet tore through him, and he dropped instantly, blood blooming dark across the rain-slick stone.Silence vibrated. Then chaos detonated. Shouts. Boots thundering. Muzzles flaring. Rain slicing downward in frantic sheets. Zara didn’t think. She moved.She dove over Rayyan’s body, dragging him toward the nearest broken wall. Bullets hissed past her ear, sharp enough to slice air, too close to fear, only instinct now, survival, devotion carved into her bones.“Cover fire!”A new voice roared through the courtyard, deep, commanding, furious. Silhouettes burst from the shadows, masked, armed, relentless.They moved like a unit trained in death and devotion, precision honed from wars the world never saw. Zara’s eyes widened. Not enemies. Not this time. Rayyan’s people.The traitor cursed, expression twisting, c
Chapter 110 — The Edge of Loyalty
The night did not breathe. It watched. It stalked. It waited like the city itself held its lungs in fear, as though one exhale might ignite the powder trail destiny had drawn between them all.Rain whispered on the abandoned courtyard’s stone floor, thin and cold, a quiet drum against the heavy hush clinging to the air. Dim streetlamps flickered, casting erratic shadows like restless spirits trying to warn the living.Rayyan stood in the center, coat damp, jaw tight, eyes locked forward with a calmness that was nothing short of terrifying. Not empty no.His gaze burned with the weight of every betrayal, every loss, every truth he had been forced to choke on until it poisoned his blood. This wasn’t rage. This was resolve sharpened to a blade.Across from him, Zara paced like a caged storm. Her voice was a tremor of disbelief, sorrow, fury. “You knew,” she whispered. “And you stayed silent.”Rayyan didn’t blink. “I did what I had to.”“You let me hate you,” she said, her voice breaking
Chapter 112— When the Air Learned Her Name
Silence did not return gently. It snapped back like a rubber band, sharp and painful. The world exhaled all at once, the night air rushing through shattered glass as if reality remembered how to breathe only by force.Miriam stood rigid, heart jackhammering, tiny shards glittering in her hair like cruel stars. Dust danced in the dimness around her motionless, as if gravity was confused, waiting to be told what rules applied now.Then… Tick. The bulb above her flickered back to life on its last dying filament. The generator downstairs coughed twice like an old man reluctant to rise, then hummed unsteadily.Life human life began shouting again. Cars honked in panicked bursts. Someone cursed God outside. A baby’s wail cut through thin walls. A radio crackled with frantic Yoruba prayers.But in Miriam’s room, the world held its breath. She heard footsteps running down the corridor. Voices in the landlord’s flat shouting orders. Metal gates clanging open.Phones buzzing back to life as if
Chapter 111— The Pulse That Woke the Earth
Darkness quivered. Not the soft, sleepy kind that came before dawn no. This one breathed, like something ancient inhaling after an eternity buried in silence.Beneath cracked concrete, fractured soil, and the bones of forgotten cities, something stirred. And Miriam felt it first.She sat upright in the quiet hours before sunrise, breath frozen in her chest. For a moment she didn’t move she just listened.The air hummed, a low vibration threading into her ribs like invisible fingers plucking the strings of her spirit. Thum. A heartbeat. Deep. Primeval. Too large to belong to anything mortal. Thum-thum.Her hands trembled. Not from fear no, fear was too small a word. This was awe wrapped in a threat, reverence kissed by dread. As though God Himself had drummed His fingers against the core of the world.Outside, Lagos slept uneasy. Street dogs whined. A car alarm chirped without cause. The lagoon wind shivered through metal roofs like some invisible choir sighing in warning.Miriam rose
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