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CHAPTER 109
"I don't know," Darius said quietly, staring down at his own chest like it belonged to someone else. "I have no idea how did got here." "I can't comprehend possibly you are so calm. I don't know why you are being so nonchalant about this. We need to get you to a hospital right now." "You need to calm down, Rhea. I don't think the hospital's going to know what this is," Darius said. Rhea paused, brows knitting together, thrown completely off by the flatness of his tone. "What do you mean by that? Who else is gonna know if not the hospital? Are you drunk?" "I mean exactly what I said," Darius said. "I don't think they'll be able to treat this." She let out a short, disbelieving laugh. "Darius, I work at a hospital full of some of the most competent doctors in this city. Whatever this is, someone there will be able to diagnose it and treat it. We're going to the hospital, no more word from you." Without waiting for further argument, she hurried tow
CHAPTER 108
Darius reached the Argent estate a little past four in the morning, the house dark and silent except for the dim glow of the hallway lights the staff always left burning through the night. He didn't bother waking anyone. "Young master..." one of the staff members on night shift bowed. "Shhhhh!" Darius quickly hushed him. He simply let himself in, climbed the stairs with legs that felt like they belonged to someone else entirely, and collapsed into bed still half-dressed, asleep before his head had properly settled against the pillow. He didn't stir again until well past sunrise. The next morning, just around nine, Rhea arrived at the Argent Estate in what looked like a newly purchased ride. She was dressed simply, yet there was an effortless brightness about her that seemed to follow her as she elegantly stepped out of the car. A few of the staff along the entrance hall remarked on how good she smelled, earning nothing more than
CHAPTER 107
"I'm fine," Jules said shakily, though his hands were visibly trembling as he unbuckled himself. "I think I'm fine." Trigger let out a long breath, flexing his fingers against the wheel like he was checking they still worked. "Fine. Bruised, but fine." They climbed out to assess the damage, and it took only a glance at the car's crumpled front end and the way it sat lopsided in the ditch to understand this vehicle wasn't taking them anywhere. Trigger popped the hood anyway, more out of frustration than any real hope, and stared down at the mangled mess of metal beneath it with a low, resigned curse. "Damn, we're so cooked!" Jules impatiently kicked his feet. "Cell service?" Darius asked, already knowing the answer from the single, useless bar that had disappeared from his phone an hour ago. "Nothing here," Jules said, holding his own phone up uselessly toward the darkening sky like that might summon a signal out of nowhere. "I think we'r
CHAPTER 106
The drive out of the city took almost two hours, the paved roads eventually giving way to cracked asphalt and then to something barely qualifying as a road at all, winding through hills that grew steadily greener and more remote the further they went. Trigger drove, jaw tight the entire way, while Jules sat in the back beside Darius, unusually quiet for a boy who normally couldn't stop talking. From some reasons, he was very scared of Darius, who didn't even for a second glance at where he sat. "How much further," Trigger asked, for the third time in twenty minutes. "When we stop seeing power lines," Darius said, watching the landscape shift outside the window, "we'll be close." They found the village nearly an hour later, tucked into a valley so small it barely registered on any map Trigger had pulled up before they lost signal completely. A cluster of modest homes, a single dirt road running through the center of it, and an elderly woman s
CHAPTER 105
Darius paced the length of the room for what felt like the hundredth time. His footsteps the only sound besides the low hum of the ventilation and the occasional muffled laugh drifting through the door from whoever was still lingering in the hallway. He'd run through every option twice over and landed on nothing. He couldn't perform a miracle on a body that had already gone cold and green at the edges. He couldn't talk his way out of a locked door held shut by men who'd already decided his freedom was conditional on the impossible. And he certainly couldn't just sit here and wait for them to eventually get bored, because something told him their patience for this particular game was going to outlast his. He stopped pacing eventually, dragging both hands down his face, and found himself standing over the bed again, staring down at what remained of Roberto Theranga with something between disgust and despair. If nothing else, he
CHAPTER 104
For one stunned heartbeat, everything seemed to stop—the echo ricocheting off marble, the sharp bite of smoke hanging in the air, the spent casing skittering across the floor as everyone waited for Silent to drop. He didn't. Instead, there was a scuffle of impact somewhere off to the side, a heavy thud of two bodies hitting the floor, and Silent looked down at his own chest first, patting it once, twice, finding nothing but whole, unbroken skin beneath his shirt. Confused, he turned to find the source of the noise — and found Darius sprawled on the marble floor with Valerio underneath him, having tackled him sideways at the exact instant the shot went wide. Valerio recovered first. He shoved Darius away, scrambled to his feet, and froze as he registered who was lying in front of him. Recognition twisted his features into pure fury. Before Darius could push himself up, Valerio's fist smashed into Darius’s nose with a sickening c
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