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CHAPTER 71 PART 2
Vasquez stepped through, flanked by two of his largest enforcers. His expression was cold, calculating, and extremely displeased."We need to talk," Vasquez said quietly.Alejandro spun on him, his rage finding a new target. "Not now. I'm busy.""Busy throwing a tantrum like a child?" Vasquez's voice dripped with contempt. "Or busy thinking of more ways to bring heat down on my operations?""I did what was necessary—""You killed a senator!" Vasquez's voice rose. "You massacred fifteen people in a hospital! You poisoned the daughter of Ricardo Vega at a luxury resort! All without consulting me! All without orders! All while drawing attention we cannot afford!""Those were loose ends that needed—""You've been acting like a rogue agent," Vasquez interrupted, stepping closer. "Making decisions on your own, pursuing personal vendettas, using resources I provided for your own revenge fantasies. That stops. Now."Alejandro's hands clenched into fists. "Are you giving me orders?""I'm remin
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Ricardo shook his head violently, refusing to accept what Diego was implying. "No. I don't believe it. There has to be something you can do.""Ricardo—""Two years ago, Esperanza was dying!" Ricardo's voice rose with desperate conviction. "Every doctor in the country told me to prepare for her death. They said her illness was fatal, that there was no cure, that I should make her comfortable and say goodbye. And you proved them all wrong!""That was different—""How? How was it different?" Ricardo grabbed Diego's shoulders again. "You performed a miracle then! You brought her back from the edge! Why can't you do it again?"Diego remained silent, his expression haunted by knowledge he couldn't bring himself to speak aloud."Answer me!" Ricardo shook him. "Why can't you heal her now like you did before?""Because—" Diego's voice caught. He closed his eyes, forcing himself to continue. "Because to the best of my knowledge, in all the centuries these poisons have existed, no one has ever s
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Ricardo stared at his daughter's corrupted hand, the grayish-black discoloration that seemed to pulse with malevolent life. "What is this? What kind of poison does this?"Diego's voice was heavy with dread. "It's called the Devil's Hand. One of the most feared substances in the ancient texts. I only know about it because Master Chen showed me warnings in his forbidden manuscripts—texts he kept locked away because the knowledge itself was considered dangerous.""Devil's Hand?" Ricardo's face paled. "That sounds like—""A myth? I wish it was." Diego moved closer to Esperanza's bed, his eyes never leaving the spreading corruption. "The name comes from what it does to its victims. The discoloration you're seeing now—that grayish-black spreading across her skin—that's just the beginning.""What do you mean 'the beginning'?""In a few hours, maybe less, the discoloration will turn red. Vivid, blood red. Terrifying red streaks that will cover both her hands like she's been branded by fire."
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He poured more energy into her system, burning through his reserves, trying everything Master Chen had taught him.Nothing worked.The blackness continued spreading, inexorable and unstoppable.Ricardo Vega arrived at the Continental Villa three hours later, having chartered a helicopter the moment he received the call. He burst into the medical suite they'd converted from a guest room, his face a mask of controlled panic."Where is she? Where's my daughter?"Diego stood from the chair beside Esperanza's bed, his appearance shocking even to Ricardo. The normally composed healer looked haggard—face pale, eyes sunken with exhaustion, hands trembling slightly."She's stable for now," Diego said quietly. "But—""But nothing!" Ricardo moved to Esperanza's bedside, taking in her unconscious form, the medical monitors tracking her weakening vitals. "You saved her before. You can do it again.""Ricardo—""No! I don't want to hear excuses!" Ricardo's voice rose with the desperation of a father
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Diego's fist was a millisecond from delivering the killing blow—fingers positioned perfectly to stop Alejandro's heart with a single precise strike—when movement in his peripheral vision made his blood freeze.Esperanza's unconscious body tilting sideways, falling toward the pool.Time seemed to slow as she hit the water, her limp form immediately sinking like a stone, no reflexive movements to keep her afloat."NO!" Diego's roar of rage and frustration tore from his throat.He abandoned Alejandro completely, spinning and diving into the pool in one fluid motion. The water closed over his head, and immediately he felt it.Wrong. Everything about the water was wrong.Negative energy so dense it was almost physical—a malevolent presence that pressed against his consciousness, trying to disorient him, to make him lose focus and direction.The cursed poison. Even diluted in thousands of gallons of water, it was potent enough to affect him.Diego shook off the disorientation through sheer
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Esperanza stared at her hand in horror, her mind unable to process what she was seeing.The black discoloration wasn't just spreading—it was moving. Writhing. She could see things beneath her skin, shapes that shouldn't exist, movement that defied logic.Worms.Hundreds of tiny worms crawling through her flesh, eating her alive from the inside out. She could feel them—cold, wriggling, burrowing deeper with each passing second.Her hand was rotting. Decaying. The skin sloughing off in patches to reveal blackened muscle beneath, and below that, glimpses of bone already being consumed."NO! NO NO NO!" Esperanza's scream was primal, inhuman. She stumbled backward, trying to get away from her own corrupted flesh.But the hand followed her, still attached, still spreading its horror up her arm.She fell to her knees on the pool deck, shrieking in terror as the worms reached her shoulder, thousands of them now, eating through her body like acid through paper.In reality, her hand showed only
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