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Chapter 21
Emma's tears only intensified as she pressed further, her small hands trembling as she clutched at the front of Ethan's shirt, her voice breaking with desperate urgency."Dad, please," she cried, her words tumbling out between sobs. "I really want you to marry Megan. That's the only way to save her from being forced to marry someone she doesn't even love. That's the only way she'll actually be happy. Please, Daddy, I want you to marry her, and if you do this for me, I promise, I'll forgive you completely. I'll forgive you for missing today, for everything. And if later she says she doesn't want to stay, then we'll let her go. But at least she'll be free. At least she won't be trapped in a marriage she never chose for herself."She wiped furiously at her tears with the back of her hand, but they kept falling anyway."I saw the way she was crying today, Daddy. It broke my heart seeing her like that. I want her to be my mom. I've already told her before, jokingly, and she never said no.
Chapter 20
The moment the words left the guard's mouth, the taxi driver's hands trembled visibly against the steering wheel, his heart pounding with a fear that seemed to seep into every corner of his body. He had heard enough. He did not need to be told twice that he had made a grave mistake by driving all the way to this particular gate, a place so heavily guarded, so deeply shrouded in mystery and exclusivity, that even the mere act of approaching it uninvited could be enough to destroy everything he had worked for."I'm very sorry," he stammered quickly, his voice shaking with genuine panic. "I'm sorry, I didn't know, I swear I didn't know. I will turn around right now. I will leave immediately."His hands fumbled toward the gear shift, desperate to put as much distance between himself and this gate as humanly possible, desperate to erase any trace of his involvement in whatever chaos was unfolding before him.But before he could shift the car into reverse, Marcus's voice cut through the ten
Chapter 19
The moment the words left the guard's mouth, the taxi driver's hands trembled visibly against the steering wheel, his heart pounding with a fear that seemed to seep into every corner of his body. He had heard enough. He did not need to be told twice that he had made a grave mistake by driving all the way to this particular gate, a place so heavily guarded, so deeply shrouded in mystery and exclusivity, that even the mere act of approaching it uninvited could be enough to destroy everything he had worked for."I'm very sorry," he stammered quickly, his voice shaking with genuine panic. "I'm sorry, I didn't know, I swear I didn't know. I will turn around right now. I will leave immediately."His hands fumbled toward the gear shift, desperate to put as much distance between himself and this gate as humanly possible, desperate to erase any trace of his involvement in whatever chaos was unfolding before him.But before he could shift the car into reverse, Marcus's voice cut through the ten
Chapter 18
Not long after that moment, before they could even reach the towering entrance of the massive estate that stretched endlessly beyond the horizon, the taxi carrying Marcus and his fragile, barely conscious mother slowed to a halt in front of an enormous iron gate, one so tall and imposing that it seemed to swallow the surrounding darkness whole, its intricate metal patterns gleaming faintly beneath the dim glow of the estate’s outer lights.The estate itself was massive beyond ordinary comprehension, surrounded by high stone walls that stretched further than the eye could follow, hidden behind rows of ancient trees that had clearly stood undisturbed for generations, guarding whatever secrets lay within its boundaries.It was the kind of place that ordinary people only heard about in passing conversations, whispered rumors exchanged among the wealthy elite, a location so exclusive that even the taxi driver himself, despite having driven through the city for years, had never once brought
Chapter 17
The moment his mother’s eyes fluttered open, her expression twisted into something between disbelief and confusion, as though her mind could not fully comprehend what her eyes were showing her, as though the very act of waking up had become a miracle too impossible for her exhausted body to accept.She had not expected to see Marcus standing above her.She had not expected to be alive at all.For a woman who had spent her final conscious moments believing that death had already claimed her, waking up to the sight of her son’s face hovering anxiously over her felt like stepping into a dream she did not dare trust, a fragile illusion that might shatter the moment she tried to reach for it.“What is happening?” she whispered, her voice hoarse and trembling, barely more than a breath escaping her cracked lips. “What… what is going on?”Her words came out slow and broken, each syllable requiring more strength than her weakened body could easily provide. Her eyelids fluttered as though the s
Chapter 16
No sign of her, no sound, no movement. He looked around once nothing. He looked around a second time—still nothing. He forced himself to look a third time, his heart pounding violently against his ribs, but there was no trace of his mother anywhere among the discarded boxes, broken equipment, and abandoned medical waste bags piled along the narrow concrete space.“Mom!” he shouted, his voice cracking with desperation. “Mom, where are you?”Silence answered him.“Mom!”Nothing. No response. No sound. Not even an echo carried back to him, only the distant hum of hospital machinery and the faint dripping of water from a broken pipe somewhere nearby.“What the hell is happening here?” he whispered to himself, his voice shaking with fury and fear.His mind spiraled into a storm of rage.That good-for-nothing Morrison, he thought bitterly. That miserable excuse of a doctor is the one responsible for this. If anything has happened to my mother, I swear I will never forgive him. I will crush
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