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CHAPTER 36
The moment the doctor finished speaking, the final strings holding Maya together snapped.The overwhelming terror, the excruciating physical pain, and the sudden, beautiful rush of relief washed over her all at once. She sank to her knees right there on the linoleum and began to bawl. Thick, hot tears streamed down her swollen face, carving tracks through the dried blood beneath her nose. Her shoulders shook violently as she wept, her small hands clutching her injured side as she looked up at Slayde through a blur of tears."Thank you..." she sobbed, her voice breaking entirely. "Thank you for helping us... thank you for saving her, Slayde..."Slayde looked down at the weeping girl, the heavy tension finally draining from his massive frame. He let out a long, slow sigh, a sound heavy with the weight of the world.Stepping closer, his heavy boots quiet against the floor, he extended a hand to help her up."Stop crying," Slayde said softly, his voice returning to its normal, low cad
CHAPTER 35
One side of her face was already severely swollen, an angry purple bruise blooming across her pale skin where the heavy blows had landed. A steady trail of bright red blood smeared beneath her nose, staining her lip. She hunched over, instinctively guarding her cracked ribs.A heavy, suffocating silence filled the corridor. Slayde’s chest rose and fell in a ragged rhythm as his gaze locked onto her injuries."You were beaten that badly," Slayde muttered, his voice dropping into a dark, dangerously quiet register, "and you still decided to plead for him?"Maya flinched, taking a half-step back from the sheer intensity radiating off him. The raw mix of guilt and fury in his expression was terrifying. Pressing a hand against her aching side, her breath hitched as she realized her safety was the only thing keeping him from tearing the entire room apart."I’m not pleading for him," Maya wheezed. The words tore at her throat, tasting of iron. "I'm... I'm pleading for you."Slayde did
CHAPTER 34
The small plastic bag of food slipped from Slayde’s fingers, hitting the floor with a soft, unnoticed rustle.Inside the waiting room, the heavy boot connected with Maya’s side yet again.Thud.The sheer force of the impact lifted her slight frame a few inches off the linoleum before she crashed back down, gasping for air that wouldn't come. A sharp, white-hot agony flared through her chest as her ribs cracked under the pressure, the pain radiating through her entire body and stealing the breath right out of her lungs. Her vision swam with sudden, flashing blind spots, and the sterile lights of the waiting room blurred into dizzying streaks of white. Every muscle locked up in a desperate, involuntary reflex to protect her vital organs, but the momentum of the blow left her completely paralyzed, curled into a tight, trembling ball as the metallic taste of blood pooled heavily in the back of her throat."I asked you a question, rat!" the assistant barked, completely blind to the shad
CHAPTER 33
And now, instead of dying in the gutter, they were surviving. The old woman was resting in a premium intensive care unit, the massive hospital bill had vanished into thin air, and this bleeding little rat was looking up at her with pure defiance. Every single trap Harlyn had set was failing because of some invisible force shielding them.Harlyn gritted her teeth until her jaw ached, a low, murderous hiss escaping her lips. The fact that they were recovering, right under her nose was an absolute insult. She could not stand the thought of losing to a bunch of slum rats."You think you're clever, don't you?" Harlyn spat, stopping right in front of Maya. She reached down, forcefully grabbing the girl's collar and yanking her upward. "You think whoever threw this money at the hospital is going to save you from me? I don't care whose pockets you dug into. I will find out who is backing you, and I will ruin them along with your miserable family!"Maya gasped for air as the tight fabric
CHAPTER 32
In the frantic, chaotic scramble, Maya swung her arms out in pure self-defense. Her jagged fingernails caught the fabric of Harlyn’s designer sleeve, tearing right through it and slashing deeply across her forearm."Ah!" Harlyn shrieked, instantly releasing her grip on Maya’s hair as she stumbled backward.Clutching her forearm, Harlyn stared down at the raw scratch marks in unadulterated shock. Blood began to well up, dripping steadily onto the pristine white linoleum floor. She glared at the crying, hyperventilating Maya, who was huddled on the floor, clutching her sore scalp.Harlyn’s chest heaved with venomous malice. Without even wiping the blood away, she turned her freezing, murderous gaze toward her personal assistant."Slap her," Harlyn commanded, her voice dropping into a deadly, trembling whisper as she pointed a bloody finger. "Slap her three times across the face. Right now."Maya scrambled to her feet, her instincts screaming at her to run. She took a frantic step t
CHAPTER 31
Harlyn stepped directly into Maya’s personal space, the overwhelming scent of her expensive perfume clashing with the sterile smell of the hospital.“You talk about your brother as if he were a victim,” Harlyn purred, her voice dripping with venomous amusement. “I didn’t force a single credit into his hands. I simply provided the house of cards, and he chose to sit at the table. If he was stupid enough to wager his family’s safety on a bad hand, that is his fault. Not mine.”Maya shook with rage, her breath hitching as she stared into Harlyn's unblinking eyes. "He was weak, and you preyed on him! You knew he would lose!""Of course I knew," Harlyn snapped, her cruel smile returning. "That is how business operates. We filter out the trash. Your family belonged in the dirt of the slums, and that house was the last remaining asset you had to offer.”“Did you honestly think I would let a prime piece of real estate sit underneath a decaying old lady just for sentimentality? Your lives wer
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