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Chapter 9
Master Chen came in again. This time it wasn't one punch, it was a string of them, fast and precise, each one aimed somewhere specific. A strike toward Cassian's shoulder. Another toward the side of his neck. A third dropping low, going for the knee. Every movement looked practiced, like it had been repeated ten thousand times until it stopped being a choice and became something closer to instinct.Cassian blocked the first strike with his palm. He turned the second one aside with his forearm, letting it slide past him instead of stopping it head-on. The third one he stepped around entirely, moving his weight just enough that Master Chen's foot swept through empty air.It didn't look like a fight, it was as it was a conversation between two people who understood exactly what the other one could do, testing each other, waiting to see who would run out of new questions first."You've studied the Meridian style," Master Chen said, breathing harder now. "Or something close to it. Where d
Chapter 8
Julian Harrow walked into the ballroom the way he walked into every room in his life — like it already belonged to him.He didn't rush. He didn't look around like a man trying to understand what had happened. He simply walked forward, one hand adjusting his cufflink, his eyes moving slowly over the mess in front of him.Behind him came an older man. Gray hair, cut short, a plain gray training jacket that looked strange next to all the tuxedos in the room. He didn't hurry either. He moved the way someone moves when they've spent their whole life learning that speed isn't the same thing as power.Cassian didn't know who the older man was but he easily recognized the third man that followed a step behind both of them. Broad shoulders, a dark suit that fit him perfectly. He was Damian Harrow, the Harrow's chief security that does all the family dirty works behind the scene and Cassian was one of his victims.*This is getting interesting* Cassian chuckled.Someone near the back of the cr
Chapter 7
Cassian just kept looking at them as they all were breathing heavily while he didn't even look like someone who had fought more than ten men just few minutes ago."I see you are already itching for your own Henry. Don't worry, this is just the beginning." Cassian said to Henry.Henry's face turned red like an overripe tomato as anger and humiliation flooded through him."How dare you this pauper!" Henry bellowed.He could not believe that the same Cassian who had always grovel around him, begging him to accept him into his family and always pleasing them could have the audacity to beat his son and even threaten him. It was too much for him."You useless boy that I picked from the gutters and allowed into my family, you have the effrontery to threaten me and even beat up my only son?!" He shouted."Well, what can we say, the boy has finally become a man." Cassian grinned, his voice dripping with sarcasm and mockery.The smile on Cassian's face seemed to get Henry more irritated and ang
Chapter 6
Lucia's hand had found its way to her throat, her earlier bravado nowhere to be found.Behind her, near the head table, Henry Rowan had gone the color of old ash, staring at the scattered bodies of his own security and the battered body of his son like he couldn't quite convince himself they were real.Lucia's fear didn't last long. It never did, certainly not when there was an audience watching to see whether she'd fold.She straightened, smoothing the front of her dress with hands that weren't quite steady, and forced her voice back into something imperious."Fifty thousand," she announced, loud enough for the whole room to hear. "Fifty thousand dollars, cash, to whoever puts this man on the ground before security arrives."For a heartbeat nobody moved. Then greed did what fear couldn't. Three more men peeled off from the edges of the crowd, followed by two waiters who had clearly worked security details before, followed by a cluster of Henry Rowan's personal guard summoned from so
Chapter 5
For a moment nobody in the ballroom moved at all.Then the whispers started, spreading outward from the doorway like ripples on still water."Isn't that—""The one who went to prison. Lucia's ex-husband.""He's out already? I thought he still had years left.""Look at his clothes. Looking very cheap.""What is he even doing, showing his face at this family's party?"The murmurs carried a familiar note underneath the shock. Something Cassian was already used to. Contempt dressed up as pity, the particular cruelty of people who had never once had to fight for anything they owned. To them, Cassian wasn't a threat. He was an entertainment. A ghost that had wandered into the wrong room and was about to be reminded of that fact.Marcus Rowan, Lucia's brother pushed through the crowd toward the front, straightening his jacket, with a slow grin spreading across his face."Well, well." He looked Cassian up and down like he was appraising something worthless. "The convict comes home and decide
Chapter 4
"Cassian! Wait!" His mother rushed to him. "Please, don't go, they will kill you this time around." She pleaded."Don't worry mom, they can't do anything to me again." He assured her."But..." His mother tried to object again but Maya cut in."Let him go mother, at least, he needs to prove himself worthy of the sacrifice that Nora made.""But he just got out of prison, what if they do something worse to him!" She countered again."Then it means he learnt nothing while he was in prison and from what he did to this thugs, he should be able to handle himself but if he stays back here and allow Nora be humiliated the second time for his sake, then he is worse than a coward!" She spat the words out in anger.Cassian looked at his sister and saw the raw anger and hatred back on her face. He could not bring himself to apologize now and seek for her forgiveness. The time will come, after he had dealt with the people that did this to them and help her walk again. Then he could properly ask fo
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