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Chapter 85: Real Training Begins
Jacob studied Anna's face in the dawn light, searching for any sign that her request was born from trauma rather than genuine conviction. What he saw was determination that reminded him of himself at thirteen—a person who had faced something terrible and chosen to become stronger rather than break."If I agree to this, there are rules," Jacob said carefully. "Real combat training is not like the self-defense lessons I gave you before. It will be brutal, exhausting, and dangerous. You will get hurt. You will want to quit. And I will not let you.""Good," Anna replied without hesitation. "I do not want you to go easy on me because I am your wife. I want you to train me the way you were trained.""The way I was trained broke most of the students who attempted it," Jacob warned. "The Himulan Sect does not produce soldiers through gentle methods. They forge warriors through pain and repetition until skills become instinct.""Then that is what I need," Anna said. "Because the next time some
Chapter 84: New Depths
Anna stared at Jacob for a long moment after his confession, tears streaming down her face. The revelation that he had loved her since that terrible day fifteen years ago should have felt romantic. Instead, it felt overwhelming—another layer of complexity added to an already impossibly tangled situation."Sit down," Anna finally said, her voice hoarse from crying. "We are going to talk. Really talk. No more evasions, no more half-truths. I want to know everything."Jacob sat carefully on the opposite end of the bed, maintaining distance between them. "What do you want to know?""Everything," Anna repeated. "Start with what happened after I pulled you from that fire. Where did you go? How did you survive?"So Jacob told her. He described fleeing Seron as a traumatized thirteen-year-old, carried away by people whose names he never learned. The long journey to the Himulan Sect, where he was taken in by military trainers who recognized potential in the broken boy.He explained his years o
Chapter 83: The Connection
Anna sat on the bed, the memory of that terrible day washing over her with crystal clarity. The pain, the fear, the desperate determination to save a trapped boy despite the danger. She had carried those scars for fifteen years, never knowing the name of the child she had rescued or what became of him after that day."It was you," Anna repeated, her voice barely above a whisper. "All this time, the boy I saved was you."Jacob nodded, his expression showing vulnerability she had never seen before. "I was thirteen years old, watching my entire family being systematically murdered. My enemies trapped me in that bus and set it on fire, expecting me to die with the other passengers. Then you appeared like an angel and pulled me from the flames.""I never knew your name," Anna said, fragments of memory clicking into place. "The hospital was chaos that night. By the time they treated my burns, you had already disappeared. I asked about you for weeks afterward, but nobody could tell me anythi
Chapter 82: Anna's Flashback
Fifteen years ago...Anna Tate was seventeen years old and had never been happier. The summer sun warmed her face as she walked beside her mother through the streets of coastal Seron, far from the suffocating expectations of her family's mansion. This vacation was a rare gift—three days away from tutors, social obligations, and her mother's constant reminders about proper behavior for a Tate daughter."Can we get ice cream?" Anna asked, pointing to a vendor cart across the street. "Please, mother? Just this once?"Elizabeth Tate sighed but nodded, unable to resist her daughter's genuine smile. Anna was still unscarred then, still beautiful and full of life. The weight of family disappointment had not yet crushed her spirit.Anna ordered chocolate while her mother got vanilla, and they sat on a bench overlooking the harbor. Boats drifted lazily in the water, and seabirds called overhead. For these precious moments, Anna was just a normal teenager enjoying summer vacation."We should he
Chapter 81: Emotional Breakdown
Jacob scooped Anna into his arms and ran toward the exit as the Forno compound began tearing itself apart around them. Explosions chased them through corridors, each detonation closer than the last as incendiary charges ignited in sequence."Hold on to me," Jacob commanded, channeling mystical energy into a protective shield around both of them. Debris bounced off the golden barrier as they navigated the collapsing structure.Behind them, Jacob heard Michael Forno screaming for his son, trying to drag James's broken body toward an exit that no longer existed. Part of Jacob wanted to go back, to save them despite everything they had done. But Anna was his priority, and every second they remained in the compound decreased their chances of survival.A massive explosion tore through the bunker level, the shockwave throwing Jacob forward despite his shields. He twisted his body to take the impact, protecting Anna from the worst of it as they tumbled through a doorway and into a stairwell t
Chapter 80: The Revelation
Jacob's hands moved to the edges of his mask, fingers finding the release mechanisms that had been second nature for fifteen years. He hesitated for just a moment, knowing that once he removed it, there would be no going back. The separation between his two identities would collapse forever.But Anna's terrified whimper decided the matter. He pressed the release points and lifted the mask away from his face.The change was immediate. The demonic metal features that had terrorized countless enemies disappeared, revealing the familiar face Anna knew. Jacob's brown hair was matted with sweat, his hazel eyes showed exhaustion and pain, and blood splattered across his features told the story of brutal combat. But it was unmistakably him.Anna's expression transformed from terror to complete shock. Her mouth opened and closed several times without producing sound as her brain struggled to process what her eyes were seeing."Jacob?" she finally whispered, the single word carrying disbelief,
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