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Chapter 12 – The Queen’s Gambit
2:59 A.M. Location: Goodman Private Airfield – “The Nest”A swarm of black drones hovered above the burning treeline, lenses zeroed in on Jeffrey Goodman, the long-lost heir now framed in the flames of the past. On their screens, Eleanor’s cold, ageless face smiled.“You survived the Hollow Grounds. I must say, I’m impressed.”Her voice was sweet venom. “But then again… you always did have your father’s knack for ruin.”Jeffrey raised a pistol toward the lead drone. “I also have his knack for revenge.”Eleanor’s smile didn’t fade. “Is that what this is? A vendetta? You come back from exile like some wounded beast… dragging ghosts behind you?”Camilla’s voice crackled in Jeffrey’s earpiece. “We have to go. I don’t think she’s just watching. Those drones are armed.”Eleanor continued, voice sharp now. “You still don’t see the game, Jeffrey. You think this ends with me. But I’m not your enemy.”She leaned closer to the camera. “I’m the last protection you have from what’s coming.”A targ
Chapter 11 – Shadow vs. Heir
Location: The Hollow Grounds – Eastern Wing 2:34 A.M.Metal groaned under their boots as Jeffrey and Subject Zero circled each other like twin wolves in a cage. Sparks flickered from busted panels overhead, casting eerie shadows across their nearly identical faces.Camilla ducked behind a steel beam, pistol drawn, but Jeffrey lifted a hand.“No,” he said calmly. “This is between us.”Subject Zero’s voice rasped through his mask.“I was born here. Bled here. Trained to replace you. And yet…” He stepped forward. “They still feared you more than me.”Jeffrey didn’t flinch. “Because I didn’t need to be programmed to be lethal.”And then they moved, Flesh slammed into flesh, bone struck steel, the air filled with the brutal percussion of warriors unchained.Zero moved like liquid violence, spinning elbows, chain whips laced with taser coils, a barrage designed to kill quick.Jeffrey countered with precision: blocks born from underground fight pits, strikes taught by ghosts, and instinct ca
Chapter 10 – The Hollow Grounds
2:13 A.M. Location: Goodman Estate – War RoomThe air in the war room buzzed with tension. Asher stood at the center, flanked by armed guards and screens pulsing with red alerts. Every remaining branch of the empire was on high alert, bleeding resources.Eleanor sat quietly beside him, her eyes trained on a blinking red dot that represented Jeffrey’s last confirmed location. “Why the Hollow Grounds?” Asher asked.Eleanor smiled faintly. “Because it’s where he was born. Not biologically… but forged. He doesn’t know it yet, but he will go there. The question is, who gets there first: Jeffrey… or the hunter?”Asher tightened his jaw. “Then we bait the trap. Let’s remind him what the Goodman name means.”He turned to his security lead. “Send in The Butcher.”A younger Jeffrey screamed as water flooded into a cold isolation tank, The voice of Henry Goodman echoed over a speaker: “Hold. Do not break. Do not panic.”Each minute, the pressure increased, the oxygen decreased. Children trainees
Chapter 9 – Dead Men Don’t Stay Silent
1:42 A.M. Location: The Vault, Off-Grid Safe HouseThe screen flickered before Jeffrey. Dozens of files filled the air in glowing red light names, faces, locations, all tied to the people who orchestrated his downfall. “Camilla,” he said, voice ice-cold. “Initiate purge protocol.”Camilla hesitated. “You’re sure?”Jeffrey’s eyes never left the file on-screen:Name: Asher Goodman.Status: CEO.Crimes: Fratricide, conspiracy, asset laundering, sanctioned assassination.He nodded once. “Burn everything tied to his empire. I want the world to feel his collapse.”She stepped forward, fingers flying over the console. “Purging… now.”Across the globe, a dozen Goodman accounts blinked out of existence. Satellites went dark. Buildings locked down. Executives lost access to bank vaults as firewalls collapsed and systems imploded.The Goodman Empire had just taken a bullet to the spine, Asher Goodman’s voice echoed through the boardroom like a whip crack. “Who the hell authorized a blackout on o
Chapter 8 – Burn the Bloodline
The wreckage of the downed helicopter still burned behind them, its smoke rising like a beacon into the black sky.Camilla crouched behind a half-toppled marble angel from the old sanitarium graveyard, adrenaline surging as rotors thundered above. Bullets cut the air around her like screaming banshees.Jeffrey stood calmly, his gaze locked on the remaining two helicopters. His posture was relaxed, but his eyes… they burned. “How the hell did you do that?” she gasped. “That chopper just exploded.”Jeffrey didn’t answer, Instead, he raised one hand toward the sky and snapped his fingers.The second chopper suddenly jerked midair, its rotors sputtering unnaturally, Inside, the pilot screamed, yanking the control stick as all systems flashed red. “We’ve lost hydraulics! Nav systems are rebooting on their own!”Then came a voice, not over comms, but in their heads: “You should’ve stayed out of my skies.”The chopper slammed nose-first into a tree line, bursting into orange flame, From the
Chapter 7 – The Lazarus Protocol
00:06… 00:05… 00:04…Camilla’s fingers flew across the ruined control panel, overriding every layer of encryption she could find. Sweat poured down her face, heart hammering. Each second that ticked down was a promise of death.“Come on, come on…” she hissed.00:03… The doors wouldn’t respond, The override was locked. She needed another way.00:02…Then she spotted it: a hardline access cable snaking beneath the console, leading toward the adjacent maintenance room. Manual bypass. Ancient tech, She grabbed her gun, kicked open the side panel, and dove inside.00:01…Too late, The timer hit zero, But instead of an explosion, A thick pulse of electromagnetic force shook the building, The lights died, The cameras shattered, And Jeffrey’s body twitched violently inside the sealed chamber, caught in a silent, invisible wave.Camilla stared at the blackened monitors. “What the hell was that?”Jeffrey convulsed once, twice, then everything stopped, No movement, No sound,Just his body, spraw
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