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Chapter 74 Duncan was quiet for a long moment, his hands still working methodically on Uther's injuries. "There have been... developments," Duncan said. "Involving Kris's family." Uther shifted slightly, wincing. "What kind of developments?" “Before that war God left, he asked me to ensure that I kept his sister and Kris safe, he made me a fucking security guard!” Duncan spat. "Natasha Christian-Grey sent the Volon family to capture Kris, they went to the high school where Kris had been working, grabbed her and that man’s sister and took them." Uther's eye widened. "When? What do we do now?" "Two days ago. We do nothing." "Sir..." Uther's voice trailed off as understanding crept in. "What if that forbiddable man comes for you?" Duncan's hands didn't stop moving, applying ointment with the same steady pressure, but something in his posture confirmed it before he spoke. Uther stared at his master with an expression that cycled between shock, confusion, and something approachin
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Chapter 73For a moment, Uther was completely shocked. His one good eye went wide, and his mouth opened slightly as if to protest, but no sound came out. The idea that the man who had humiliated him — the stranger who had walked into the Kardashian compound with nothing but arrogance and a single soldier — could be the same person who had hospitalized Trevor Rodriguez was too much to process all at once.Then his expression shifted.The shock drained away, replaced by something harder. Something defensive. His swollen lips twisted into a sneer that looked painful on his battered face."You're lying," Uther said.Duncan stared at him. "What?""Or you're mistaken. Confused." Uther struggled to sit up straighter against the wall, wincing as his ribs protested. "Master, with all respect — you've been exposed to something. Some kind of drug. A hallucinogen."Duncan's expression went very still. "A hallucinogen.""Yes." Uther's voice grew more confident as he worked through his theory, the
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Chapter 72Richard looked at Duncan, and something in his posture suggested the shape of an apology without quite committing to one. "I may have... acted hastily."The words came out stiff, reluctant — less like genuine contrition and more like a man fulfilling a social obligation he resented. Duncan heard it for what it was and his expression didn't soften."Hastily," Duncan repeated, his tone flat."Yes." Richard straightened slightly, recovering some of his earlier authority. "I was... misinformed about the situation."It wasn't much of an apology. Both men knew it. Richard Volon was one of the Three Great Masters of Greenville, patriarch of one of the city's most powerful families. Duncan, for all his martial prowess, had never claimed a family seat— had never married, never produced an heir, never built the dynasty that would have placed him on equal social footing. The Volons and the Kardashians had been circling each other for years, competing for contracts, for territory, for
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Chapter 71Richard laid it out in sequence. The state of the mansion. Obed on the floor. Every capable man in the building incapacitated by a single soldier. Charles beaten personally by the man himself, at length, while his soldier handled everything else. The complete absence of a name or any prior history in Greenville's circles. He spoke without inflection, the way a man recites evidence he has already lived with long enough to stop feeling it — or believes he has."And Charles told you this person was a suitor of Kris," Duncan said."Yes. Which points directly to Uther — the only person in your circle with both the ability to put Obed on the floor and a connection to that woman."Duncan's expression had been moving steadily throughout Richard's account, passing through several stages, and it arrived now at something that was caught between disbelief and a kind of exasperated incredulity. He looked at Richard the way a man looks at a sum that has been confidently totalled wrong."
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Chapter 70"You have got some nerves," Richard said, looking down at Uther with cold fury. The lines of his face were carved deep with something beyond anger — something older and more absolute. "Duncan's disciple or not — my son is my son. What gave you the right to put your hands on him?""I didn't," Uther said. "I haven't touched Charles Volon. I don't know what you've been told, but…""Enough." Richard cut him off. "Own what you did.""There is nothing to own! I've been lying in this room for three days — ask anyone, ask the people in this building—""Beat him," Richard said to his men.They moved forward and Uther, injured and without resources, could do very little about it. What followed was brief and thorough and Uther spent most of it trying to cover his existing injuries while acquiring new ones, his protests becoming increasingly desperate and increasingly ignored."I didn't do it—" A blow landed. "I swear on my life I didn't—" Another. "You have the wrong person…"Richard
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Chapter 69Uther was mid-thought when the door came off its hinges.Not knocked. Not opened. Kicked — a single, decisive impact that sent it swinging hard into the wall, the sound of it cracking through the quiet of the abandoned building like a gunshot.Uther scrambled upright, his injuries screaming at the sudden movement, and found himself looking at Richard Volon.Richard stood in the doorway with the particular stillness of a man who had already decided everything and was simply here to execute it. Several attendants fanned out behind him, filling the narrow doorway, and between two of them — supported rather than walking, wrapped from head to torso in fresh white bandages — was Charles.Uther stared, confusedCharles Volon looked like something that had been partially disassembled. Bandages covered most of his face, his arms, his torso. What little skin was visible carried the deep, layered coloring of serious, comprehensive bruising. His eyes, the only part of him fully visible
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