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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
Chapter 6 – Echoes From the Grave
The van sped through the backstreets of the city like a hunted animal, headlights off, tires whispering over rain-slick asphalt. Inside, no one spoke.No one breathed too loud. The only sound was the replay of the video, Jeffrey’s father, barely alive, whispering a truth too dangerous to finish, Camilla rewound it again.The old man’s face was sunken. Tubes snaked through his nose, machines blinking behind him. But his eyes, those sharp, calculating Goodman eyes, still burned with fire.“Jeffrey… if you’re watching this… they failed to kill me, but they will come again and the truth, the truth is not what you think.”Then static.No time. No place. Just a digital ghost clinging to life, Jeffrey stared at the screen, jaw clenched, Victor finally broke the silence. “This doesn’t make sense. He died three years ago. Autopsy. Public funeral. I was there.”“So was I,” Camilla said quietly.Jeffrey spoke without looking at them. “What if we were never supposed to see the real body?”Victor
Chapter 5 – Smoke Without a Fire
By dawn, the smoke from the underground vault had reached the streets above. Firetrucks surrounded Goodman Tower, lights flashing red and white like a battlefield wound pulsing through the concrete.Local authorities swarmed the area, trying to contain the damage unaware they were standing on top of a war.Jeffrey watched it all from across the street, cloaked in a black hoodie and a baseball cap pulled low over his face, Camilla leaned on the bench beside him, pale, stitched, and still trembling from the adrenaline of the night before.Victor hadn’t spoken in twenty minutes, he sat across from them, one eye swollen from the beating he took. Bandages covered one side of his jaw. His pistol was tucked under the long coat he wore like a second skin.The city had no idea it was on the edge of collapse. Yet, Jeffrey broke the silence first. “Henry didn’t know it was a decoy. That bought us maybe twelve hours.”Victor gave a dry, blood-flecked cough. “Should’ve let me shoot him when I had
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