2026-01-12 16:40:36At that moment Rose stood frozen on the platform, her whole body shaking with fear. Master Lawrence and Mrs. Lawrence watched everything happening below with cold expressions. They didn't care one bit if Alex got himself killed. As far as they were concerned, this nobody had already ruined their daughter's future once before. Now he was back to destroy her second chance at a good life.
“Alex, please just listen to what they're telling you. Do what they want you to do.” Rose's voice cracked as she begged him to back down. But Alex just gave her a half smile that didn't reach his eyes. “There's no way in hell I'm letting these men steal my wife away from me. As a man, I have to prove that I'm strong enough to deserve a woman like you. If I can't do that, then I don't deserve to be in the same room as these idiots!” Every face in the hall turned dark with anger when they heard Alex's words. People couldn't believe someone with no rank or power would dare talk to military commanders like that. The disrespect was beyond anything they had ever seen. Henry King felt his blood boil over. When nobody was looking, he quietly whispered a spell under his breath. Dark energy flowed from his hands toward the golden bell in the center of the room. The bell's power multiplied five times stronger than before. Now when Alex tried to punch it, the energy backlash would kill him instantly. Lewis caught sight of Henry King's secret spell from the corner of his eye. He watched the dark energy flow into the golden bell, making it five times more deadly than it was supposed to be. A sly thought crossed his mind. He could speak up right now and warn everyone about what Henry King had done. But what good would that do him? Lewis decided to keep his mouth shut and let things play out. Once Alex collapsed dead on the floor, he would tell Rose exactly what Henry King had done. He would explain how the King of War had cheated and made the bell impossibly strong just to murder Alex. Rose would be disgusted with Henry King's dirty tricks. Lewis felt his smile stretch so wide it made his cheeks bunch up near his eyes. This was perfect. With Henry King exposed as a cheater and a killer, and Alex dead on the ground, Rose would have no choice but to pick him. Alex walked straight toward the golden bell while everyone watched. Several of the head commanders called out for him to stop and think about what he was doing. But Alex ignored every single voice. His footsteps echoed through the silent hall as he marched forward with determination. Alex reached the golden bell and pulled back his fist without any hesitation. Then he threw his punch straight at the glowing metal. The sight of Alex's movement made Rose and everyone else freeze in complete shock. Alex hadn't called up any magical energy before throwing his punch. He wasn't glowing with power or chanting any spells. How could he possibly think his regular human strength would do anything to that golden bell? If Alex had been a known awakener, people might have been curious to see what kind of technique he was using. But since nobody had ever seen him show any powers before, this just proved he was lying about everything. His reckless move was going to get him killed in the next few seconds. At that moment Rose felt her legs start to move toward the edge of the platform. Maybe she could jump down, hold him and somehow stop him before it was too late. But even as the thought crossed her mind, she knew the truth. Alex's fist was already flying toward the golden bell. There was absolutely no way she could cover that distance in time to save him. Henry King shot a confident smile toward Lewis. He knew for certain that Alex wasn't a real awakener, which was exactly why he had secretly pumped extra power into that golden bell. Under normal circumstances, Alex might have had a tiny chance of surviving the energy backlash. But nobody else knew about the spell he had cast. With the bell now five times stronger than before, Alex was about to die, and everyone would think it was his own stupid fault for trying to punch magical energy with his bare fists. When Lewis saw Henry King's smug expression, his face twisted with anger. For just a moment, he had actually wondered if maybe Alex really did have some hidden powers. But now he could see the truth. The bastard was nothing but a complete liar acting purely on emotion and desperation. What a pathetic joke this whole thing was! Alex's fist made contact with the golden bell in that instant. The metal exploded into countless tiny pieces that scattered across the floor like glittering confetti. At that moment upon seeing what just happened every single person in the hall felt their eyes go wide with absolute shock. Mouths dropped open. People took stumbling steps backward. They could not wrap their minds around what they had just witnessed. Alex had completely destroyed that magical bell with nothing but his bare hand. “How is this possible!”
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At that moment, the second the words "black file" left Jonathan's mouth and traveled through the line, there was a shift on the other end that was so immediate and so palpable that Jonathan could feel it even through the silence.A pause.Not the natural kind, not the brief hesitation of someone gathering their thoughts or deciding how to phrase something. This was the pause of a man who had just heard something that changed the entire temperature of the conversation, something that required recalibration, something that could not be responded to lightly or casually or over an open phone line in the middle of the night.And then the voice came back, quieter now, more guarded, carrying a weight that had not been there a moment ago."You want me to access the black file?"The question was careful. Precise. Not disbelieving exactly, but close to it, like the man on the other end needed to confirm that he had heard correctly before he allowed himself to fully process what was being asked
Chapter 287
At that moment, Jonathan's grip on the phone tightened, and when he spoke, his voice came out low and sharp, carrying the kind of edge that only appears when a man has just realized he has been made a fool of and is now watching the entire humiliation replay itself in his mind with perfect, brutal clarity."I thought as much," he said, and there was something raw underneath the words now, something that had been sitting compressed and silent throughout the entire conversation with his wife and was now finally being allowed to surface. "I was thinking about it. I have been thinking about it constantly since it happened. Everything moved so fast in that hospital room. Everything happened so quickly that I could not process it properly. I could not get my mind around it in the moment, could not put the pieces together the way I needed to because I was in the middle of it and it was happening to me and I was already on the ground before I even understood what I was kneeling for."He stopp
Chapter 286
The air outside hit Jonathan the moment he stepped out, cool and indifferent, and he moved through it quickly, crossing the distance to his car with the focused, purposeful stride of a man who had been waiting to make this call for the better part of the last hour.He got in.Pulled the door shut behind him.The interior of the car wrapped around him in darkness and quiet, and he sat there for exactly one second before he pulled out his phone and scrolled to the number. He pressed call and brought the phone to his ear, and it rang once, just once, before the line connected.He did not bother with greetings."Have you gotten anything?" he said, his voice dropping into the low, direct register he used when he was operating outside of the version of himself that existed inside that house. "The information I sent you. Have you found anything?"The voice on the other end was measured and professional, the voice of someone who worked carefully and did not speak until they had something wort
Chapter 285
At that moment, the question about Zachariah hit Jonathan like a stone thrown into still water, and the ripples moved through him fast and unsettling even though nothing on his face showed it.He did not know anything about Zachariah.Not really. Not in any meaningful, detailed way that would satisfy the kind of question his wife had just asked with that particular look in her eyes. And he was fully aware, standing there in that living room, that saying he knew nothing was a door he could not afford to open right now. Not after everything else he had just navigated in this conversation. Not when Serena was already in a state of heightened attention, already reading him more carefully than usual, already looking for things that did not add up.So he reached for what little he had and he shaped it into something that sounded like more."There has been some news about that," he said, and his voice came out with the measured, slightly distracted quality of a man recalling something he had
Chapter 284
Serena's laughter faded, but the bright, sharp energy behind it did not go anywhere. It simply transformed itself into something else, something that carried an edge to it now, the edge of a woman who had just realized she had been kept waiting on something she deserved to know about far sooner."Why did you not tell me earlier?" she said, and the question came out pointed and direct, the way only a question from a wife can come out when it has been sitting unasked for too long. "Why did you keep this from me all this time? All of this, him being a military cleaner, all of those details, and you just held onto it?" She looked at him with her arms crossing slowly over her chest. "You fed me scraps and kept the real information to yourself. That is not fair. That is truly not fair at all and I want you to know that I am not happy about it." She paused, and then something shifted in her expression, a small, calculating light coming into her eyes. "But since you have finally told me, si
Chapter 283
At that moment, Serena nodded her head, and the satisfaction on her face was the kind that settles deep, the satisfaction of a woman who had pushed and pushed and finally gotten what she came for."Good," she said, and the word came out rich and warm, like something she had been waiting to say for the entirety of this conversation. "Very, very good." She looked at him with eyes that carried just a trace of lingering disbelief, the kind that softens once the crisis has passed but does not entirely disappear. "Because I have to tell you, for a moment there, I genuinely could not understand what was happening. I was standing here thinking, why would this man not want to be part of this? Why would he hesitate even for a second?" She shook her head slowly. "You know how much I hate this person. You know how deeply and completely I want to get one over on Rose, how long I have been carrying this, how much it matters to me. And you were just standing there like you wanted to let it go. Lik
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