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Chapter 366 - The Weight of it
Joey slipped through the front door of her house just past midnight, moving quietly, hoping to reach her room without drawing attention. She had changed out of the clothes she'd worn that evening, scrubbed the smudged mascara from beneath her eyes, and practiced the casual, unbothered expression she intended to wear if anyone happened to still be awake.Her mother sat in the living room, still dressed, her phone clutched tightly in both hands, her face pale beneath the lamplight."Joey," her mother said, standing quickly. "Where have you been?""Out with friends," Joey said, keeping her voice light. "Studying, actually. Lost track of time.""Have you heard from Divine?"Joey's stomach dropped, though she kept her expression carefully neutral. "No. Why?"Her mother's hands trembled as she set the phone down. "Her mother just called. Divine was kidnapped tonight. Taken by some boy from your school."Joey's breath caught, a genuine, unplanned reaction, and for a moment she simply stood f
Chapter 365 - Confession
Karl scrambled backward on the floor, his earlier despair curdling into something far more dangerous as he processed the man's words, the shock rippling through the room, the pendant still clutched in the man's steady hand.He reached into his jacket with trembling fingers and pulled out a short blade, the kind meant for intimidation more than genuine combat, and lunged toward Divine, who still stood pressed close against Adrian."Stay back," Karl screamed, his voice cracking with panic. "I'll kill her. I swear I will. Don't come any closer."Adrian moved before the thought had even finished forming, his body reacting with the same instinctive speed that had carried him through every dangerous confrontation since that first night on the shore.He crossed the distance in a single stride, his hand closing around Karl's wrist a fraction of a second before the blade could reach Divine, twisting sharply until the weapon clattered uselessly against the floorboards.Karl cried out, cradling
Chapter 364 - The Estate
Adrian crouched in front of the trembling guard, his patience thinning with every passing second. Divine was somewhere out there, frightened and alone, and this man was the only thread connecting them to her."You don't have to say his name," Adrian said, forcing calm into his voice despite the urgency burning beneath it. "Just tell us where Karl took her."The guard's breathing was ragged, his eyes darting between Adrian and the man standing behind him. "An estate," he finally whispered. "Old place, outside the city. Belonged to some family that doesn't use it anymore. Karl was told to take her there.""When did he leave?" the man asked."Maybe an hour ago. He was supposed to wait at the warehouse, but then the call came, and he panicked, said everything was moving faster than planned.""What instructions did he receive?" Adrian pressed."Keep her alive," the guard said. "That's all he kept repeating to us before he left. Keep her alive and use her to bring the boy. He meant you." Hi
Chapter 363 - The Trial
Adrian circled the burning wreckage of the warehouse, his eyes scanning the ground for anything that might tell him where Divine had gone. Smoke still curled into the night sky, and the heat kept them at a distance, forcing him to search along the perimeter rather than through the rubble itself."Over here," he called, crouching near a stretch of dirt beyond the rail yard's chain-link fence.The man joined him, his earlier shaken composure already smoothing itself back into cold control, though Adrian noticed his hands had not quite stopped trembling.Tire tracks cut through the soft earth, two parallel grooves leading away from a gap in the fence where the metal had been bent back. Footprints ran alongside them, several sets, overlapping and hurried."They left in a hurry," Adrian said. "Before the explosion.""Before we even arrived, most likely," the man said, following the tracks with his eyes. "This confirms what the prisoner told us. Karl left with her shortly before we reached
Chapter 362
The smell of smoke still hung heavily in the air.The warehouse was almost completely destroyed. Pieces of metal lay scattered across the ground, and thick black smoke rose from the broken walls. The explosion had been so powerful that even the buildings nearby had suffered some damage.Adrian stood among the ruins, his eyes moving from one corner to another.“Check over there!” he ordered one of the men behind him.The man immediately obeyed.Adrian had been searching for several minutes, but there was still no sign of Divine or Karl. He had hoped to find something useful among the remains of the warehouse, but so far, everything had been a waste of time.The Second God of War approached him, his face hard.“There’s nothing here,” he said. “I’ve checked the other side. No bodies, no survivors, nothing.”Adrian clenched his fists.“Then where the hell did they go?”“I don’t know. But we need to think carefully. Whoever planned this knew exactly what they were doing.”Adrian turned to
Chapter 361 - The Symbol
The red dot led them north, past the last streetlights and out onto a narrow road that ran between empty fields. Adrian watched the dark pass by the window, his hands resting on his knees, his mind on Divine sitting alone under a single yellow bulb.The man drove faster now. He still said nothing. But Adrian noticed that his knuckles had turned pale against the wheel."We are close," the man said at last.Ahead, the old rail yards rose out of the darkness, rusted tracks tangled across the ground, broken signal towers leaning against the sky. Beyond them stood a long, low building with a corrugated roof, its walls streaked with rust.The man stopped the car a hundred meters away and turned off the engine."That is it," Adrian said."Yes."They stepped out. The night air was cold and carried the smell of old oil and wet iron. Somewhere far off, an owl called once and fell silent.Adrian studied the warehouse. Nothing moved. No light showed in the windows. No car sat near the entrance. A
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