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CHAPTER 328
Immediately, without wasting any other seconds, Elizabeth's hand shot out with a fury that had been building for weeks about David. Her fingers closed around the stem of the wine glass on David's table a deep, ruby-red Cabernet that caught the soft amber light of the VIP lounge—and in one swift, unbroken motion, she hurled its contents across his face.The wine exploded against his skin, splashing in a crimson arc that painted his cheeks, his jaw, the collar of his white shirt. Droplets flew onto the pristine tablecloth, onto the menu, onto the leather-bound folder that lay beside his coffee cup. A single bead of wine clung to his eyelash before dripping slowly down his cheek like a blood-red tear.Elizabeth slammed the empty glass down. The crystal clinked sharply against the marble tabletop, a sound that cut through the ambient jazz music like a knife.“How many times,” she said, her voice low and shaking, each word ground out between clenched teeth, “how many times have I told you
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Nathaniel Jr. stared at the phone for a long moment after the call ended, his jaw working as the fury built beneath the surface. His grip on the device was so tight that the edges of the case bit into his palm. He did not feel it. His mind was elsewhere, cycling through the information he had just received, assembling a picture that was still incomplete but growing clearer by the second."Did I start this thing at all?" he muttered to himself, his voice low and venomous. "This crazy, good-for-nothing bastard actually thinks he can win. He thinks he can escape. He thinks he can just walk away from all of this." He shook his head slowly, a dark smile touching his lips. "That is not going to be possible. It will never be possible. I am going to crush him so completely that he will regret the day he was born."He paused, a flicker of grudging acknowledgment passing through his thoughts. He knew his son. Raymond could be a handful. He went after things that did not belong to him, pushed bo
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The silence on the other end of the line was thick, charged with something dangerous. Nathaniel Jr. did not respond immediately. When he did, his voice had dropped several degrees, the anger replaced by a cold, calculating stillness."You have a point," he said slowly, each word measured as if he were weighing them on a scale, "I have not yet settled accounts with the person who laid hands on my son. That man is still walking freely, breathing the same air as decent people, and I have not yet made him understand the cost of touching what belongs to me." A pause. "What kind of man does that make me, to have let that stand for this long?"He let the question hang in the air before continuing."But hear me clearly. The only reason I am speaking to you at all, the only reason I have not already dismissed you and your entire family as irrelevant, is that your son gave me something useful. He gave me the first piece of the puzzle. And I need the last piece. So I do not care what you have to
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Benjamin's father froze for just a moment, the phone pressed to his ear. He pulled it back slightly, squinting at the screen as if the number might rearrange itself into something recognizable. Still unknown. Still just digits.He brought the phone back to his ear, and his voice came out harder than he had intended, sharpened by the tension of the evening and the raw nerve of seeing his son sedated in a hospital bed.“Who the hell is this?” he demanded. “And who do you think you are, calling me and speaking to me with that kind of attitude? You need to watch your tongue. Who exactly do you think you are speaking to?”There was a pause on the other end. When the voice returned, it was colder and more deliberate, stripped of its initial heat and replaced with something far more dangerous.“You seem not to understand who is calling you,” the voice said. “And frankly, I do not care whether you know or not. What I care about is this: I gave your son an assignment. A very specific task. A
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Immediately Benjamin’s mother broke. The carefully maintained composure she had worn like armor since her son’s collapse shattered in an instant. A low, keening sound escaped her lips, and then the tears came not a gentle cry, but a deep, wrenching sob that seemed to pull from the very center of her being. She crumpled into the chair beside the bed, her body folding over itself as if physically absorbing the blow.“What is happening?” she gasped between ragged breaths, her voice thick with anguish and fury. “What in God’s name is happening to my son? He was fine! He was perfectly fine not long ago! Doing okay, living his life! And now… now he’s… he’s having a breakdown? A mental breakdown?” Her hands clenched into fists on her lap. “No. Someone did this. Someone has done this to him. It didn’t just happen. It can’t just happen like this.”She lifted her head, her eyes red-rimmed and blazing with a new, desperate resolve. “David. Elizabeth. Those names. They know something. They have t
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Victoria listened, her expression mirroring Elizabeth’s conviction. She set her wine glass down on a side table with a soft, definitive click.“You are right,” she said, her voice low and sure. “You're absolutely right about all of this. I wouldn't even argue with you. Benjamin’s hand is in this up to the wrist. He plotted this entire charade and now he’s trying to make it look like he’s the victim like he’s free of it all. But we both know he’s not free. He’s cornered.”“Exactly,” Elizabeth said, her gaze distant and focused on a future only she could see. “And I’m not going to let him off the hook. Not now. Not after all of this.” She turned her eyes back to Victoria, and there was a cold, patient light in them. “Let me just finish with Festus first. Let me secure this ground. Then,” she said, and the words were slow and deliberate, “I will come for him. And when I do, it will be hard. It will be swift. And it will be permanent.”Victoria’s smile was thin and approving. “That's
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