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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
Chapter 218
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
Chapter 217
Her voice was quiet. Not the quiet of someone who is backing down the quiet of someone who has decided that the most effective thing they can say is the simplest thing, delivered without decoration.“You do it constantly,”she continued, and there was no heat in the words, which somehow made them land harder than heat would have. “You look at someone, you make a decision about what they are and what they are capable of, and then you hold that decision regardless of what the evidence says. Regardless of what you see. Regardless of what happens right in front of you.” She looked at her father steadily, and the look was not unkind but it was absolutely direct. “I have watched you do it my entire life. I have watched you dismiss people who turned out to be extraordinary, and I have watched you elevate people who turned out to be ordinary, and I have watched you refuse to revise either assessment even when the facts demanded revision.” She paused. “I am asking you to stop. Not for his s
Chapter 216
The anger that came off Rose's father in the wake of Rose's plea was a different quality of anger from what had come before. The earlier outburst had been the explosive, pressure-release anger of a frightened man finding a target. This was something colder and more sustained the anger of a man who has watched something happen that he finds genuinely incomprehensible and cannot locate the framework that would allow him to make sense of it.He looked at his daughter with an expression that was equal parts fury and bewilderment, and when he spoke, his voice had the tight, controlled quality of someone who is working very hard to keep the full force of what they are feeling from coming out all at once.“What the hell do you think you are doing?”The words landed in the room like stones dropped into still water, sending ripples outward through the charged atmosphere that had been building since the moment Rose and Alex had walked through the door. He took a step toward Rose, his hands comi
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