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Chapter 130 – Brother’s Edge
The world slowed to a knife’s edge. Alan stared, blood roaring in his ears, as Gabriel’s trembling hand closed around the discarded rifle.The fire’s glow painted his brother’s gaunt face in shades of red and shadow, eyes half-open but unfocused, lips pale and cracked.For a heartbeat, Alan thought Gabriel was reaching for the weapon in desperation, to fight beside him, to prove he wasn’t broken.But then Gabriel’s gaze flicked past Alan. Past the fire. Past the soldiers. Straight to Ethan. Alan’s heart nearly stopped. “No,” he breathed, voice shredded. “Don’t”Gabriel’s hands shook, the rifle clattering faintly as he lifted it with all the strength his broken body could muster. His wrists, raw from chains, trembled violently, but the barrel rose higher.And it wasn’t pointing at Ethan. It was pointing at Alan. “Beautiful,” Ethan murmured, his voice smooth as silk. “Even broken, even battered, the boy knows who his true master is.”Alan’s mind fractured into shards. He couldn’t believ
Chapter 129 – Inferno Gambit
The lighter trembled in Alan’s blood-slick fingers, the silver casing glinting in the firelight. A river of gasoline stretched between him and Ethan’s encroaching soldiers, shimmering black under the glow of the flames.One flick, one spark, and the whole world would go up in fire. Ethan’s smirk was carved in stone, unyielding and cold. “Do it,” he whispered, his voice carrying through the smoke like a snake’s hiss.Alan’s chest heaved. His vision blurred with pain and exhaustion, but his grip on Gabriel tightened. His brother’s limp body was heavy against him, shackled wrists dangling, breaths shallow but still there. Still alive.Alan’s heart hammered. He didn’t want to risk Gabriel. He didn’t want to risk everything. But Ethan had left him no choice. Alan snarled through gritted teeth. “You think I won’t?”“Of course you will.” Ethan’s eyes gleamed with cruel amusement. “Because you’re desperate. Because you’re reckless. And because you’re mine, Alan, every move you make, every bre
Chapter 128 – Ashes and Chains
Alan staggered out of the burning van, the world around him an inferno. His body was a battlefield of pain, ribs cracked, burns screaming, his vision clouded with smoke and blood.Every breath scraped like fire in his throat, but he forced his broken frame forward. The convoy was gone, torn apart in a storm of explosions and twisted steel.Flames painted the night in red and orange, the stink of burning fuel choking the air. Shards of glass crunched beneath his boots, and somewhere in the chaos, a voice, faint, broken, echoed in his mind.Gabriel. The image of his brother, hollow-eyed and shackled, pointing a rifle at him, burned hotter than the fire itself. Alan didn’t know if that look was defiance or desperation.He didn’t care. All he knew was that Gabriel was in there, and he would rip apart the world to bring him back. The armored van lay on its side, half buried in the smoking crater where the grenade had detonated.Its plating glowed red-hot, metal warped and twisted. Alan pre
Chapter 127 – Brothers Across the Barrel
The night shrank to a single point of focus. Gabriel’s eyes, Gabriel’s rifle, Gabriel’s silence. Alan stared down the barrel, every muscle in his body taut, every breath caught in his throat. The convoy’s armored van thundered down the industrial highway, bullets still flying, but none of it mattered.Nothing mattered except that his brother, the boy he had once sworn to protect, the boy whose laughter had been the only warmth in their childhood hell, was aiming at him like a stranger.Alan’s voice cracked through the chaos, raw and trembling. “Gabriel, don’t.”But Gabriel’s gaze didn’t flicker. His shackled hands braced the rifle, and the muzzle never wavered. The first shot came. Bang!Alan flung himself back into the van as the bullet tore past his face, grazing his cheek, shattering the rear-view mirror. His sister screamed, jerking the wheel, the van fishtailing across two lanes.Horns blared, sparks screamed as tires scraped the divider. Alan’s blood ran cold. His brother had fi
Chapter 126 – Hunt Through Fire
Alan clawed his way out of the wreckage, the fire licking at his heels, the taste of ash burning his throat. His skin was blistered, his shirt shredded, his ribs screaming in protest with every motion.But he was alive. Barely. And in his chest, beneath the cracked bones and searing pain, his heart hammered with one word, brother.He staggered into the night, coughing, eyes locked on the city lights beyond the docks. Ethan was out there, moving Gabriel like a pawn on his board.Alan could almost see it, armored vehicles, black convoys cutting through the streets, guards in tinted visors keeping his brother caged. Alan spat blood, straightened, and whispered into the darkness.“You won’t keep him from me.”Alan stumbled back to the van where his sister waited. The moment she saw him, her eyes widened in horror. “Alan!” She rushed to catch him as he collapsed against the hood, his blood smearing across the paint. “You’re burned, you’re bleeding”“I don’t have time.” He shoved himself up
Chapter 125 – Breaking the Game
The red dot burned on Alan’s chest. He didn’t flinch. Not when the snipers tracked his heartbeat. Not when the gagged woman whimpered in the corner, her wide, desperate eyes begging him for salvation. Not even when Gabriel’s hollow stare flickered across the monitor like a ghost haunting him.Alan’s voice came out steady, almost calm. “You want me to play your game, Ethan?”The speakers hissed with static before Ethan’s low chuckle filled the container. “Of course I do. That’s what you’re good at, isn’t it? Playing hero. But here’s the problem, Alan, heroes always bleed. And tonight, you’ll bleed trying to decide which life matters more.”The woman cried behind the gag, muffled and frantic. The red dot on Alan’s chest wavered but never left.Alan slowly raised his gun, not toward her, not toward the screen, but straight up at the spotlight burning overhead. His finger tightened— Bang!The light exploded, showering sparks, plunging the container into half-shadow. Shouts rang out in the
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