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CHAPTER 129 PART 2
Then Diane exploded. She shot upright in the bed with her eyes bulging and her fingers clawing the air, and a shriek tore out of her throat that rattled the window glass."That lying, cheating, filthy snake! I gave that man thirty years! Thirty years of my life!" She grabbed the pillow and flung it against the wall. Her whole body shook with rage, and spit flew from her lips. "I will kill him! I will find him and tear his throat out! And you, you stupid girl, you let him walk away?""What was I supposed to do?" Sophia screamed back. Tears were pouring down her face now, and her whole body shook. "I cannot take this anymore. I cannot take your voice or your hands or your hate. All my life I have been your dog, Mom. Every day you kick me and call me a failure, and I have never once said no. I am so tired. I would rather jump off a building than listen to one more word."Diane stared at her. For a moment something flickered behind her eyes, and then it went out, replaced by a flat and ug
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The old Morgan house on the West Side smelled of damp wallpaper and boiled cabbage. The paint on the ceiling hung down in curling strips, and a single weak bulb lit the narrow bedroom where Diane lay propped on three flat pillows.A cracked phone rested on her chest. She stared at the little glowing screen with a hungry smile that looked strange on her gray, sunken face."Up two percent," Diane croaked. She held the phone out at arm's length as if showing it to someone who was not there. "Morgan Pharmaceuticals is up two whole percent today. Do you see that, Sophia? The market knows. The company is coming back."Sophia stood by the window with her arms hanging at her sides. Her tank top was torn and her cheeks were swollen purple, and the dried blood on her lip had cracked open again. She had walked the whole way across the city in the dark, and her feet felt like blocks of wood. She did not answer."I am talking to you," Diane snapped. The smile fell off her face and her thin lips tw
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"A little," Ethan answered. He glanced around the wrecked hall like a man noticing a stain on his tablecloth. "A group of Japanese warriors came in earlier. They tried to start a massacre with Preston Wells, so I killed them."The Colonel went very still. Then, with the stiff, careful movements of a man backing away from a sleeping tiger, he turned on his heel and strode toward the exit."I must warn my superiors at once," Colonel Ferris muttered. His voice was tight and quick. "A hundred bodies on American soil. Heaven help us all."He vanished through the doors with his guards hurrying after the stretcher. A thin figure in a rumpled silk suit slipped out from behind a pillar and caught Ethan's sleeve. Gary Morgan wore the nervous smile of a rat that had found a hole in the wall."Ethan, my boy," Gary said. He kept his voice low and sweet. "Prince AJ told me to pass on an invitation. He wants you to visit the Sha Kingdom. The whole palace will welcome you as a guest of honor. A man l
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Colonel Ferris stood by the door with his arms folded, and his four guards lined the wall behind him with their hands near their holsters. The room was so quiet that the ticking of a small brass clock on the mantel sounded like a hammer. They watched the young man kneeling beside the couch with the open mistrust of soldiers who had seen too many doctors fail.Ethan pulled his shirt wide. Over his heart, pale against the skin, lay a strange mark in the shape of a lotus with seven curled petals. It pulsed faintly, as if something alive were sleeping beneath it. One of the guards drew a sharp breath, and the Colonel's eyes narrowed."What is that?" Colonel Ferris asked. His voice was low and uneasy. He took half a step forward, and his hand dropped toward his belt. "Is it contagious?""Only to people who ask stupid questions," Ethan replied. He did not look up. He drew a long silver needle from a case in his pocket and held it over the mark, and his face was calm and distant. "Stay where
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The slap came so fast that she did not see it. It cracked across her cheek and sent her sprawling against the pillar. Gary stood over her with his hand still raised, and his face had gone ugly and thin."You ungrateful little bitch," Gary hissed. He bent down until his nose almost touched hers. "I raised you. I fed you. Do not threaten me. You do not even know what you threw away. You have no idea who that man upstairs is."He pulled a worn photograph from the inside of his jacket and flicked it onto her lap. Sophia picked it up with trembling fingers.It was an old picture with soft colors, taken at some kind of ceremony. A young man in a crisp dark uniform stood at attention in the foreground. He could not have been more than twenty, but his shoulders were square, his eyes were sharp, and his face was one she knew better than her own. Beside him, one hand resting on the young man's shoulder, stood a tall old man in royal robes, with a thin gray beard and a faint scar across his left
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Down in the hall, the noise had faded to a low and nervous murmur. The soldiers on the landing stood like statues, their rifles pointed at the floor, and nobody dared go near the stairs. Victoria stood beside Victor Sr. with her fingers twisted together in front of her. Her eyes kept sliding up to the second floor."Grandfather," Victoria whispered. She leaned close and kept her voice low. "That patient must be someone very important. A Colonel does not salute a man like Ethan for a stranger. And those foreign robes, those guards. Who is he?"Victor Sr. leaned on his cane and studied her face for a long moment. His white head moved in the smallest shake, and his eyes were sharp and steady."Some questions are better left in the dark, child," Victor Sr. told her gently. His tone carried the weight of a man who had buried many secrets. "If Ethan wants us to know, he will tell us. Until then, you stay quiet and you keep your face calm. There are too many ears in this room."Victoria swal
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