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Rose took a slow, deep breath and said, “All right then.”That was it. Just that.And the moment those words left her mouth, her father's entire face changed. The tension, the frustration, the tightness he had been carrying in his jaw for the last hour it all just dissolved. His cheeks lifted and a wide smile broke across his face like a man who had just been told the court ruling came back in his favor.“Thank goodness,« he breathed out, pressing his hand to his chest. “Thank goodness you have finally seen it. Finally.” He shook his head like he was still processing it, the smile not going anywhere. “I knew it. I kept telling myself, once she sees the truth, once the real picture is in front of her, she will see it for what it is. And look — look at this. I knew it.” He laughed a little, short and relieved. “That good for nothing fraud has been lying to you from the very beginning and now it's all out in the open and you can finally breathe, Rose. We can all finally breathe.”He s
Chapter 222
Rose turned to face her father properly this time, not halfway, not with one eye still on the window. Fully.“So you and mom have been doing a background check on him,” she said, and the way she said it wasn't a question as much as it was her making sure she had heard correctly, making sure she was understanding the full picture of what had been happening behind her back. “Like, seriously. The two of you.”“Yes.” Her father didn't even flinch. He said it like it was the most reasonable thing in the world, like she should have expected nothing less. “Why wouldn't we? How could we not do a background check on someone we know absolutely nothing about? He has been lying, Rose about everything. One thing after another. And now we know why. Now it all makes sense.” He said that last part with the satisfaction of a man who had been suspicious from the beginning and had finally been handed the proof to back it up.Rose shook her head slowly. “Okay,” she said. “I'm not going to say it's go
Chapter 221
Her father's face completely changed.The worry, the tension, the tight jaw he had been carrying since the moment this whole thing started all of it just lifted, replaced by something that looked almost like triumph. His chest rose, his shoulders came back, and he let out a breath that sounded like a man who had just been told he won something.“Thank goodness,” he said, and he said it twice, like once wasn't enough to carry the full weight of his relief. “Thank goodness I called him. Thank goodness I had the sense to bring Jonathan into this.” He looked at Rose with the expression of a man who had just been proven right and wanted to make sure the person standing in front of him understood that fully. “Just imagine. Just imagine what would have happened to your mother — to my wife if I had sat here and listened to you. If I had just folded my hands and trusted that good for nothing man to handle it.”Rose said nothing. She just watched him.“He's a liar, Rose.” Her father's voice s
Chapter 220
Rose looked at Alex and the worry on her face was the kind that couldn't be hidden no matter how hard she tried.“I'm really worried,” she said, and her voice had dropped to something quieter, more personal than anything she had said in the last hour. “I'm seriously worried about you. I don't want anything to happen to you because of this because of me asking you to go.” She shook her head slightly, her eyes steady on his face. “Please be safe. I wouldn't forgive myself if something happened to you because of all of this. I'm sorry. I really am.”Alex looked at her for a moment, and something in his expression settled not dismissive of what she said, but calm in a way that was genuine rather than performed.“Nothing is going to happen to me,” he said simply. “I'll be back before you even have time to think about it. Three minutes, maybe less.”Then he turned and walked out.Rose stood in the middle of the living room for a second after he left, then moved to the window. She wasn'
Chapter 219
Rose saw her father reach for his phone and her patience snapped completely.“What the hell are you doing?”Her father's head turned sharply. “What does it look like I'm doing?” His voice came out loud and raw, the kind of loud that had nothing to do with wanting anyone to hear him and everything to do with the fact that he had been sitting on this feeling for too long and it had finally taken over completely. “I'm sick and tired of this. Sitting here, waiting, listening to empty words from a man who hasn't been able to help himself a single day since I've known him.” He pointed at Alex, not looking at him directly, the way people point at something they don't want to give too much attention to. “You want me to hand my wife's life to him? To his words? To whatever this is?” He shook his head hard. “No. That is never going to happen. I'm calling Jonathan right now and there is absolutely nothing you are going to say that will stop me.”He turned to Rose fully then, and the anger on
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Alex glanced down at his phone screen and then back up.“It's my friend,” he said simply, and stepped away from where he was standing to take the call.The moment the line connected, the voice on the other end didn't waste a second.“Master, what do you want us to do? This is an S-level gate. A black S-level gate. That means at minimum two Gods of War need to be on the ground before anything meaningful can happen.” The voice was calm but tight underneath it, the kind of calm that comes from someone who is holding a lot of urgency behind professional control. “The military is trying to put together a strong team, we can see that, but the more time they spend assembling, the worse the situation gets on that mountain. If those monsters reach a certain number before anyone steps in, clearing them all at once becomes a completely different problem. We are ready to move. So I need to know — do we sweep in?”Alex didn't answer immediately.He stood by the window with the phone pressed to hi
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