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Ch. 162- Stolen
Cassian was standing firm in his place beside Connor, arms folded, gaze sweeping across every corner like someone memorizing the battlefield. Miles lingered somewhere behind them, vibrating with adrenaline and badly disguised panic.The candles hissed as if the house itself exhaled.Connor’s breath left him in a slow, controlled release. “It’s starting,” he said.Cassian tilted his head. “It started the moment you walked through those gates.”Miles pushed a hand through his hair. “What exactly starts now? Because I’m getting the sense we just kicked a hornet nest the size of a small country.”Cassian turned fully. “Hornets are predictable. This family is not.”“Fantastic,” Miles muttered.Connor didn’t move his gaze from the doors Rowan had stormed through. “He’s going straight to Charles. And Frederick. They’ll try to reconvene in private. They’ll attempt an override.”“They can’t,” Miles said. “You said the vote was invalid.”Connor lowered his voice. “They will try anyway.”Cassian
Ch. 161- Fear Her!?
The doors thundered open with a force that made every candle tremble. The figure stepped into the hall, tall, sharp and confident. His presence sliced through the tension like a blade honed over years of exile.Kirra, caught between shock and the crackling air, whispered, “Who is that?”Miles’s mouth twitched in a wild, disbelieving grin. “Option A,” he muttered. “The nuclear option.”Rowan’s face drained. “You.”The man stepped into the candlelight, revealing hard-cut features, eyes like polished steel, and a scar running from the corner of his jaw to the edge of his collar.He smiled, slow and lethal.“Hello, Rowan,” he said. “Still pretending you run this family?”Gasps hissed around the room.Kirra felt Connor’s grip tighten on her hand until his knuckles whitened.Rowan’s voice cracked once before he wrestled it back under control. “You were banned from this estate.”“Yes,” the man said, unbothered. “And yet, here I am.”Miriam pushed to her feet, stiff and pale. “How did you ge
Ch. 160- Breach
The doors suddenly exploded inward, slamming against the stone walls with a crack that ricocheted through the east hall. Gasps rippled across the semicircle of Waratah relatives. Kirra’s pulse stuttered, and sensing her anxiety, Connor’s shoulders went rigid beside her.And the stranger stepped through.He moved with the kind of confidence that did not need permission. Tall, broad-shouldered, and dressed in a charcoal suit that fit like a tailored threat, he crossed the threshold with an ease that said he belonged here and a defiance that said he refused to. His hair was a deep ash blond, slightly tousled, and his eyes were an unsettling, piercing blue… the kind that saw too much, too quickly.A murmur swept the hall.“Is that—?”“It can’t be—”“He wouldn’t dare—”Rowan’s face drained of color.“…Elias,” he breathed.The name struck the room like a dropped match in dry grass.Kirra felt Connor exhale beside her—not relief, not fear, but something sharper. A blade unsheathed.Elias W
Ch. 159- Storm gathering
The air in the east hall snapped tight, as if every molecule was froze in anticipation. The doors at the back slammed open so violently that the portraits rattled on their hooks. A cold gust swept through the chamber, sweeping candle flames sideways, and the Waratahs, people who thrived on control, collectively flinched.A tall silhouette stepped into the golden light.At first, Kirra couldn’t make out the face, just the posture, which was relaxed, arrogant, unmistakably predatory. The kind of posture that said the room belonged to him, whether anyone liked it or not.Rowan’s breath left him in a strangled hiss.“Oh no,” Miles whispered, delighted. “He actually brought him.”Connor didn’t move. His jaw was steady, his stance rooted, but Kirra felt the tension vibrating through his hand. This wasn’t fear. This wasn’t anger.This was a warning.The figure stepped forward, boots echoing across the marble, until the face emerged from the shadows.A man in his thirties, dark hair slicked
Ch. 158- Hello, Cousin
The doors were booming against the walls as the figure strode in at a very unhurried pace, appearing unnervingly confident and carrying an aura that the Waratah elders visibly recoiled from.A hush rolled through the assembly like a cold wind.Kirra felt Connor go still beside her.Rowan’s expression, which was already sour, curdled into something close to dread. “You.”The man stepped into the light, coat draped over broad shoulders, dark hair tied back, eyes sharp enough to cut steel. He looked like someone carved from the same Waratah mold Connor had escaped, polished, powerful, and dangerous, but older, and infinitely more composed.“Hello, cousin,” the man said, voice smooth as glass but edged like a blade. “Try not to faint. It would be terribly embarrassing.”Kirra blinked. Cousin?The room rippled with whispers.Connor exhaled once. “Elias.”Elias Waratah smiled, but it wasn't warm. “Good to know the prodigal remembers my name.”Kirra watched Rowan struggle to mask pure fury.
Ch. 157- Survival Instinct
The doors slammed behind Miles so violently the old wood shuddered, and Kirra swore the walls themselves seemed to flinch. The Waratah estate had that unnerving quality, like every corridor stored echoes in locked drawers, like every room collected secrets the way normal homes collected dust. Nothing here was ever just quiet; it was curated silence, heavy with intention.Connor didn’t move.He stood in the middle of the drawing room, jaw clenched, shoulders rigid, breath sharp and cold. The last fragile thread of restraint he’d been holding onto all evening had snapped the moment Rowan spat the word outsider like a slur.Kirra touched his arm—light, careful.He didn’t look at her.“Connor,” she said softly.“Don’t.” His voice was low, dangerously steady. “If I look at you right now, I’m going to break something expensive.”Her heart squeezed. The Connor she knew outside these walls—quiet humor, steady warmth, gentle intensity—shifted into something sharper the moment he crossed into
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