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Chapter 82 GLORIOUS AWAKENING
CHAPTER 82GLORIOUS AWAKENINGThe bolt moved again.Alphonsus caught the security chief's arm before he could reach for the access plate. “what could be in there.”A grinding sound travelled through the door. Something heavy shifted behind it, followed by three hurried knocks.“Sir?” The guard's voice came thinly through the metal. “It's moving. There's another door inside. I think it's closing.”“Stay where you are,” Alphonsus called. “Can you move?”“My leg is trapped. When that thing opens, the wall moves too.”Cindy crouched beside the access plate, examining its seams without touching them. “The external bolts are still engaged. Whatever is moving, it isn't responding to this mechanism.”“Can you stop it?” Diana asked.“Not without knowing what we're stopping.”A deep impact shook the corridor. Dust fell from the upper frame. The security chief ordered everyone back, but Alphonsus
Chapter 81 THE RING'S BOUNDARY
“Do not touch that handprint,” Alphonsus ordered.Red streaks marked the inner face of the heavy door. The blood was fresh.“Has anyone heard movement?” Alphonsus asked.“No, sir. We called repeatedly. Nothing.”“Then stop treating silence as proof he is dead. Secure both ends of this corridor. Nobody enters or leaves without Cindy's approval.”Cindy took the radio from the guard. “Two teams at the stairwell. One at the service passage. Check every adjoining room, but do not disturb anything near this door.”Diana moved closer. “That is the guard who was wounded?”“The blood trail ends here,” Cindy answered.Alphonsus examined the handprint. The fingers were spread wide, as if the injured man had tried to brace himself against the door. He pressed his palm against the metal. The Ring remained silent.He tried the established access plate. Nothing moved. The mechanism gave no sound, no click, not even th
CHAPTER 80 THE SECOND AWAKENING
The men closed in from every entrance stepping over broken furniture and fallen stone. Dust drifted through the fractured ceiling. “Stay behind me,” Alphonsus told Diana and Cindy. His ribs tightened as he shifted his stance. The hospital doctor's warning returned with every breath, but the men were already advancing. He could not retreat without endangering his family. “Put down your weapons,” he ordered. “Your uncle wants you alive,” one attacker said. “That is the only reason you are still standing.” “Then be careful not to disappoint him.” The man said. Alphonsus caught his wrist and drove him sideways into the broken table. Pain flashed through his chest. The attacker's weapon struck the floor. Before Alphonsus could recover, another man rushed from the corridor. Cindy seized a fallen chair and swung it into the attacker's path. He stumble
CHAPTER 79 CONFRONTATION AND WAR
Alphonsus kept his eyes on the agreement. “Then we act before that instruction is carried out.”Cindy secured the original while two trusted officers took Sebastian to have his shoulder treated. Diana refused to leave the room.“You will not protect me by keeping me ignorant,” she told her son.“I won't,” Alphonsus replied. “But I will keep you behind protection.”He ordered a review of the gates and instructed the guards to maintain their normal routine. Cindy separated the security roster from the agreement and kept the names of the suspected signatories restricted.Before the council could convene, Alphonsus summoned the relatives whose signatures appeared on Victor's document.Daniel Milton Williams arrived with a guarded expression. Marcel Holmes Williams came with Jerry, Cara, and Kyla. Charles Monty and Lydia followed. Marcelus did not come. He remained with Victor.Alphonsus placed copies of the agreement on
Chapter 78 Assemble Of Traitors
ictor's invitations reached their destinations before midnight. By the following evening, the east pavilion stood ready behind drawn curtains, its entrance watched by men who had been instructed to admit only the names on the list.Marcelus arrived first and checked the empty chairs. “You invited the branches that still have something to lose,” he said.“Those are the only ones who matter tonight,” Victor answered.Daniel entered with his three children. Marcel Holmes followed with Jerry, Cara, and Kyla, while Charles Monty arrived with his own children. Lydia came with her child. The remaining cousins who had not accepted Alphonsus's authority took seats without exchanging greetings.“Where are the others?” one cousin asked.“With that arrogant heir, apparently,” Victor replied. “Let them discover what loyalty costs when the council takes his authority away.”Marcelus closed the pavilion doors. “We should begin.”<
Chapter 77 FROM RIDICULE TO PINNACLE
By morning, the vault corridor had been secured, the injured guards treated, and Diana moved to a protected room. Alphonsus refused to let the previous night's attack dictate the day. Cindy placed Victor's invitation beside the footage recovered from the corridor camera. “He has sent the edited version to every major outlet. The reporters will arrive expecting a spectacle.” “Then give them facts,” Alphonsus replied. Diana watched him fastening his jacket with his uninjured hand. “You do not have to prove yourself to people who have already chosen to misunderstand you.” “This is not about proving myself, Mother. The workers should not pay for what Victor has done.” Cindy had spent the night speaking with the operations team. The frozen account had disrupted one route for payments, not the entire Williams fortune. The team had verified which subsidiaries could meet immediate obligations through authorised funds and independent operating arrangements. They had also checked the clos
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