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CHAPTER 124
Ethan reached into the Dragon Soul Void Cauldron through his spatial storage and produced three small pills.He knelt beside the old woman first and placed one between her cracked lips. The effect was instant.The color returned to her face, her breathing steadied, and the parasite dissolved inside her body like salt in water.He gave the second to Lawrence, who gasped with relief as the agony vanished from his chest in a single wave.Then he stood over Gloria.She was on the floor, the Heart Devourer chewing through her cardiac tissue, her face contorted with agony and terror.Her eyes found his, and in that moment she remembered exactly what he had told her at the front door hours ago.Don't regret this.She regretted it now with every fiber of her being.Ethan held the pill between two fingers and looked down at her. "What did I tell you at the door, Gloria?""Please." Her voice was barely a whisper, broken and raw. "Please save me."He dropped the pill. Gloria caught it with tremb
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Gloria lunged forward. "You ungrateful cockroach! You bottom feeding worm! You would kill your own mother for money? I'll have you thrown in prison so deep they'll forget your name!"Lance's hand came up fast.The slap caught Gloria across the face with enough force to spin her sideways, and she hit the floor hard, her cheek already swelling red.She lay there with her palm pressed against her face, staring up at her youngest brother with an expression of total incomprehension.Gloria Griffin, the woman who had bulldozed every person in this family for decades, could not process what had just happened to her."I told you to sit down." Lance's hand was still raised."Lance, stop this!" The old woman tried to push herself upright, tears streaming down the deep lines of her face. "I love all my children equally. I have always loved you. Please, my boy, please stop.""Love." Lance pulled a small bone whistle from his jacket pocket. It was no bigger than his pinky finger, carved from somet
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The sound of Master Garrett crashing through the broken window had barely faded when Lance Griffin's face changed.The nervous, fidgeting youngest brother who had spent weeks playing the role of concerned family member peeled away like dead skin, and what sat underneath was something cold and patient and full of poison.He walked into his mother's bedroom without knocking and found Lawrence still holding the iron ring in his trembling fist, Gloria half awake in the bedside chair, and their mother lying pale against the pillows."Give me the ring, Lawrence." Lance's voice was flat and calm, the kind of calm that does not come from peace but from a decision made a long time ago.Lawrence turned slowly. "What are you talking about?""The ring. The headship. The shares. Everything you took from me because you happened to crawl out of her first." Lance pointed at their mother without looking at her. His lip curled with something that had been rotting inside him for years."Lance, sit down.
CHAPTER 121
Across town, Ethan sat across from Natasha Sterling at a corner table in a quiet Italian restaurant she had chosen. The lighting was dim, the music was low, and Natasha was on her third glass of wine."You know what people call me behind my back?" She swirled the glass slowly, watching the red liquid climb the sides. "The Sterling Widow. Like I'm some cursed artifact they're afraid to touch.""People talk because they have nothing better to do." Ethan picked up a piece of bread and tore it in half."Easy for you to say. You're Quinn Hartford's husband. People don't whisper about you. They shout it to your face." A small laugh escaped her lips, warm and unexpected. "Do you know the last time someone just sat and had dinner with me without wanting something? I genuinely can't remember."Ethan looked at her for a moment. Beneath the expensive dress and the cold reputation, there was something tired in Natasha Sterling's eyes. Not weak. Just lonely in a way she had gotten very good at hid
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The moment Ethan and Natasha disappeared through the front gate, Master Garrett's lazy smile turned into something sharper. He rolled up his sleeves with the kind of exaggerated precision that belonged on a stage, not in a sickroom, and pressed two fingers against the old woman's wrist.Gloria stood at the foot of the bed with her hands clasped together, watching every twitch of the old man's face like her mother's life depended on the performance.It did.Master Garrett held the pose for nearly three minutes. He tilted his head left. Then right. He closed his eyes and hummed low in his throat, and when he finally opened them again, his expression carried the weight of a man delivering a death sentence at a funeral."Her kidneys have failed completely." He pulled his hand back slowly. "Both of them. The damage is so far gone that no hospital in this country could reverse it."Gloria's knees buckled. She grabbed the bedpost to keep herself standing. "Then there's nothing? Nothing at al
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He paused beside Ethan on his way to the medicine cabinet and patted his shoulder with the patronizing gentleness of a man comforting a child who had lost a spelling bee. "Lucky a real doctor arrived in time, son. No harm done."Ethan brushed the hand off his shoulder the way someone brushes a fly off their sleeve. He did not leave. He stood by the wall, arms folded, watching."He's wrong," the Spirit said. "Catastrophically wrong. Adjusting her medication will do nothing because her kidneys aren't failing. The Heart Devourer is mimicking kidney rejection symptoms by feeding on the cardiac tissue that regulates renal blood flow. If he increases her immunosuppressants, which is exactly what he's going to do, the parasite will use the weakened immune response to accelerate its feeding cycle. She'll be dead in two weeks."Lawrence looked between Gloria and Ethan, his face carrying the strained expression of a man being pulled in two directions by people who both claimed to be saving his
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