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Chapter 172
James sobbed out a sound like a small animal. “Thank you. Thank you, Nathan. God, I'll never think of going against you again.”Nathan rose and smoothed his shirt. He kept his voice plain. “You’ll have a lawyer. You’ll cooperate. You help my case against them, and you get what leniency you can. But lie…and I will end you here, hospital walls or not.”James swallowed and promised again. “I will do everything you want. I swear." He meant it. Nathan could see it. The man was broken, but honest in his shame.Nathan stepped back to the door. He paused, one last look at James. “Tell them,” he ordered. “Start when the police come to interrogate you.”James nodded, his whole body shaking. The nurse came close and reached for a call button. James’ voice was thin as paper. “I will. I’ll say it all. I will.”Nathan stepped out of the ward, and the hospital noise hit him: carts squeaking, a distant beeping, muffled voices behind doors. He should have felt relief. Instead something cold and heavy
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The hospital smelled of antiseptic and was quiet. Fluorescent lights hummed overhead. Nathan pushed the ward door open and walked in without hurry. His boots made a soft thud on the linoleum. He spotted James in Bed 7, head wrapped in white bandages, stitches along his temple, a thin sheen of sweat on his face. The man’s body trembled when he saw Nathan approach.James’s eyes went wide. He tried to sit up but a nurse’s warning hand stayed him down. He swallowed hard, voice small, “N-Nathan… I – I’m sorry. I didn’t mean… I didn’t want any of this.”Nathan stopped by the bed and sat on the chair. He folded his hands, cracked his fingers. The faint red smears on his knuckles caught the light, dried blood that would not wash out tonight’s memory. He let his fingers flex, slow. His face was calm, but cold as ice.“How did you get involved in what happened?” Nathan asked, low and steady.James’ lips trembled. He stammered, voice raw, “I was hiding, trying to stay out of sight after the fall
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Nathan’s boots scraped against the hospital tiles as he paced the length of the corridor, his broad shoulders tight with tension. Every step carried the weight of what had just transpired, the fire, the blood, Amelia’s sacrifice. The antiseptic sting of the air burned his nose, sharp and sterile, but even that couldn’t cleanse the image of Amelia collapsing against his chest.The doors to the emergency ward had swung shut almost an hour ago, and since then, silence had been his cruelest companion. His fists clenched and unclenched, the veins at his wrists standing out. He was used to battles, to threats, to taking lives when necessary. But this, this helpless waiting, gnawed at him in a way blades and bullets never could.Finally, the doors creaked open, and a doctor in pale blue scrubs emerged. His mask was pulled down, his face slick with sweat from long hours. Nathan strode forward before the man could even speak.“How is she?” His voice was low, tight, a demand wrapped in desperat
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Nathan burst into a smoke-filled room deep in the basement. James was tied to a chair, coughing, eyes bloodshot. “Nathan…please! Save me!” His voice cracked with desperation.Nathan’s jaw tightened. Memories of James’s cruelty to Natalia burned in his mind. James was unworthy. But Nathan’s conscience wouldn’t let him leave a man to burn.“Hold still,” Nathan snapped, slicing through the ropes with his bare hands like they were paper. He yanked James to his feet and half-dragged him toward the exit.They emerged, both coughing violently. Taylor broke free from the stretcher and threw her arms around Nathan. “You’re alive! Thank God, you’re alive!”Nathan hugged her back briefly, then scanned the crowd. “Where’s Amelia?”Taylor’s lips quivered. “She went back in… to get you.”Nathan’s blood ran cold. “What?!” He cursed under his breath. “Damn it, Amelia!” He shoved Taylor gently toward the paramedics and sprinted back to the flaming entrance.“No! Don’t go!” Taylor screamed, stumbling o
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His eyes blazed with mad triumph despite the weakness in his frame.A broken, rattling laugh poured out of his throat, ugly and triumphant. “You fool,” he rasped, holding the remote aloft like a weapon of vengeance. “Did you think it would end so easily? No, if I am to fall, you will not walk away from this place alive.”Nathan’s jaw clenched, but he said nothing, only tightened his stance.Master Fields staggered backward, cradling the remote to his chest. His voice shook, but the venom in it was undeniable. “If I must die, then you, Nathan, the son of a bitch who slaughtered my son and my brother, you will follow me into the pit. You will crawl, boy. Crawl and apologize. Rub your arrogant nose into the concrete at their feet… before I tear your life apart again in the other world.”Nathan advanced step by step, the weight of the basement pressing against his chest. Each stride he took forced Master Fields backward. The older man’s breath came in ragged gasps, yet the gleam in his ey
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The air thickened again, darker than before, as the basement prepared to become a battlefield of powers beyond human comprehension.And for the first time since the night began, Nathan had forced Master Fields to bleed.Master Fields rose to his feet slowly, as though the beating Nathan had already given him had only roused a deeper madness instead of weakening him. His eyes glowed with that black shimmer of malice, and he wiped the corner of his mouth where blood dripped, then smirked.He lifted the bomb remote in his hand, twirling it lightly between his fingers as though it were just a toy. Then his gaze snapped to Nathan.“Come,” he taunted, his voice vibrating through the basement like a curse. “Come and take it from me, boy.”Nathan’s jaw clenched, his eyes narrowing at the sight of Taylor strapped against the pillar with the beeping device tied around her waist. His fists curled at his sides. “Hand it over,” he said, his tone low, a rumble of restraint.Master Fields tilted hi
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