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Chapter 382: The Official Pronouncement!
The waiting room of the city's central medical examiner's office was a study in sterile dread. Fluorescent lights hummed overhead, bleaching the color from every face. The air smelled of antiseptic and despair.They sat in a ragged line of grief and defiance: Copper, rigid in a chair, his knuckles white where they gripped his knees. Whitaker stood sentinel by the door, his usual calm replaced by a coiled, predatory stillness. Bella’s face was a mask of tear-streaked porcelain, Nancy’s arm wrapped tightly around her shoulders. James stared at the floor, while Andrew and Evans exchanged silent, haunted glances. They were a fortress under siege, and the final battering ram was moments away.The tension was a physical thing, thick enough to choke on. Every tick of the wall clock was a gunshot. Every footstep in the corridor outside sent a jolt through them.They had clung, for forty-eight agonizing hours, to a single, fraying thread of hope. The math of two bodies and three people. Jackso
Chapter 381: Once Jackson is Declared Dead!
Sophia’s voice, when it came again, was no longer probing. It was calculating, and sharpened by a lifetime of near-misses and second-place finishes. “It makes me feel… practical. But let’s not pretend the path is clear. My mother, Priscilla… Philip’s own twin sister. She was conspicuously absent from his final will. My Grandfather left her nothing. The legal world, and the board, will see that as a deliberate disinheritance of that entire branch. Any claim I make will be challenged immediately. They’ll say Philip wanted his fortune to end with his son, not pass to a sister he clearly had… issues with.”She was right of course. The omission of her mother’s name from the will was a thunderous statement from the grave. Though it was widely believed that the Harts were nothing during the time of her grandfather, she still felt it was injustice to have sidelined her mother from his last will and testament.“We don’t have to make a legal claim based on blood,” Peniel said, his voice a soft
Chapter 380: The Jackson Hart Enigma!
By dawn, the news was no longer just a report; it was a city-wide fever dream. Headlines screamed from every screen: "BILLIONAIRE HEIR PRESUMED DEAD IN MYSTERIOUS INFERNO!" and "CULT KILLER OR VICTIM? THE JACKSON HART ENIGMA EXPLODES."Talking heads in studios debated grainy cellphone footage of the fire, speculating wildly about financial scandals, rivalries, and the "known associates" seen fleeing the scene. The narrative of Jackson as a dangerous outsider, carefully cultivated by his enemies, found fertile ground in the ashes.In the silent, book-lined study of Sky Tower, Mr. Copper stood before the massive window, not seeing the sunrise paint the sky in hues of bloody orange. The news played on mute on a screen behind him, the scrolling text a relentless, silent accusation.He felt… vacant. As if the very essence of what made him 'him'—the keeper of secrets, the guardian of the Hart legacy, the man who had promised a dying Philip to protect his son—had been scooped out and replac
Chapter 379: Voiceless Hope!
Bella fought him, a wild animal caught in a trap, but her strength was nothing against his shock-numbed grip. Her screams dissolved into ragged, wrenching sobs.James and Nancy picked themselves up, staring dumbfounded at the holocaust. The tactical plan, the breaching procedure, the weapons-free order—all of it was ludicrously, tragically obsolete. There was nothing to breach. No hostiles to engage. Just an ocean of fire."What the hell just happened?" Nancy whispered, her voice barely audible over the fire's roar. It wasn't a question anyone could answer.James, ever the soldier, was the first to move from stunned horror to fractured action. He looked at the inferno, then at his team—Bella broken in Andrew's arms, Hailey clutching her tablet like a lifeline, Nancy pale and shaken."Someone," he said, his voice hoarse, "call the firefighters. Right now. And Evans. Tell him… tell him the location is compromised. Catastrophically."But they all knew, as the sirens began to wail in the
Chapter 378: The Conflagration!
James's voice was a whip-crack in the small room. He was faster, intercepting her at the doorway, his body a solid, immovable barrier. He didn't grab her roughly, but his stance was unequivocal."Let me go!" she cried, struggling against his firm hold on her shoulders. "He's in there! He's alone and that monster is going to—""We can't just run in there without thinking it through!" James's voice was low, intense, his eyes locked on hers. He was the calm in the center of her storm, and it infuriated her. "Running in blind is what gets everyone killed. We heard it. There's at least Trey, Elvis, and who knows, who else that is in there. We need a plan, not a suicide charge.""He doesn't have time for a plan!" Tears of fury and fear streamed down Bella's face."We're making one right now," Nancy said, her voice cool as she checked the magazine on her sidearm with a sharp click. "James is right. We can't just rush in there without thinking it through. We don't want to put Jackson into mu
Chapter 377: Jackson's Disconnected!
Jackson’s moment of shock, seeing the ghost from his past, was all the opening Trey needed. There was no dramatic charge, no fiery blast. Trey moved with the speed of a striking snake, crossing the distance in a blur of motion Jackson’s eyes couldn't track.A fist, hard as stone and wreathed in a faint, crackling amber energy, connected with Jackson’s jaw. The impact wasn’t just physical; it was a psychic shockwave that echoed through the Flameborn mark, short-circuiting his senses. A burst of white light exploded behind his eyes, followed by a ringing silence that swallowed Bella’s desperate cry in his ear.He was unconscious before he hit the cold concrete floor.Trey stood over Jackson’s limp form, his glowing eyes burning with a mixture of triumph and profound, sickening hunger. He knelt, his movements ritualistic. He didn't search for a weapon. Instead, his fingers found the nearly invisible wire of Jackson’s earpiece. With a contemptuous flick, he ripped it free, crushing the de
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