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CHAPTER 150
"Your family will what?" Ethan's eyes bore into Peter's with the particular coldness of someone who'd exhausted their last reserve of patience. "Disown you? Cut you off? Pretend they don't know you? That's going to happen regardless of what's on this phone, Peter. The only question is how much worse you want to make things for yourself before you accept reality."Peter's fingers scrolled through his messages with the reluctant cooperation of a man being forced to dig his own grave. He opened the conversation with Marcus Reeves, revealing the initial contact. The discussion of payment. The specific instructions about what kind of damage to inflict. The request for a live stream.Ethan read through them with methodical patience, his expression unchanging as he absorbed the specific cruelty of Peter's instructions. Break his confidence. Make it visible. Film everything.Jolie moved closer and read over Ethan's shoulder. Her expression went from composed to something much harder as she pr
CHAPTER 149
Jolie stepped out of the car with the careful movements of someone who'd been holding tension in her body for too long and was only now allowing herself to release it. Her heels clicked against the asphalt as she surveyed the scene, her eyes moving across the scattered bodies of groaning men, the damaged vehicles, the shattered side mirror, and finally settling on Peter Morgan's crumpled form against the sedan.She folded her arms and looked at Ethan with an expression that held genuine admiration beneath its composed surface."You know," Jolie said, her voice light despite the chaos surrounding them, "if you weren't basically my brother, I probably would have dated you."The comment landed casually, almost playfully, but the effect on Peter Morgan was immediate and devastating. His eyes darted from Jolie to Ethan and something new registered on his already terrified face. This wasn't just a man who could fight. This was a man who had people around him, powerful people, who admired an
CHAPTER 148
Peter's phone slipped from his trembling fingers and clattered onto the asphalt. The screen was still recording, now pointed at the sky."I was wrong," Peter said, and his voice cracked on the second word. "I know that now. I was wrong about everything. I'll call them off. I'll pay whatever you want. I'll apologize publicly. Whatever you need me to do, I'll do it."Ethan crouched down slowly, bringing his face level with Peter's. The movement made Peter press himself harder against the sedan, trying to create distance that didn't exist."You investigated me," Ethan said quietly. "You spent money and resources trying to find information about my background. You hired two separate teams and came up empty both times."Peter's eyes widened. "How do you know—""And instead of taking that as a warning," Ethan continued as if Peter hadn't spoken, "instead of understanding that a person whose records have been professionally scrubbed might be someone you don't want to antagonize, you decided
CHAPTER 147
The road was quiet again. The kind of quiet that settles after violence, thick and heavy with the sound of men groaning on asphalt and the distant hum of city traffic that hadn't noticed anything unusual happening three blocks away.Ethan stood in the middle of it, his breathing steady, his clothes somehow still presentable despite what had just occurred. He was about to turn back toward the car when something caught his ear.A faint clicking sound. Rhythmic. Mechanical. Coming from somewhere to his left.Ethan's head turned slowly. His eyes scanned the road, moved past the two SUVs that were still blocking traffic, and settled on a third vehicle parked at an odd angle behind one of the attackers' cars. A dark sedan, expensive, positioned in a way that suggested it had arrived separately from the main assault team.The clicking continued. The unmistakable sound of a phone camera recording video.Ethan walked toward the sedan with unhurried steps. Each footfall was deliberate, measured
CHAPTER 146
The scarred man, the youngest of the group, scrambled to his feet and charged at Ethan with something between desperation and fury. He swung his rod overhead like a baseball bat, putting everything into a single massive downward strike.Ethan sidestepped again, that same small precise movement, and the rod smashed into the asphalt where he'd been standing, the impact sending vibrations up the attacker's arms that made him grimace.Ethan grabbed the man's collar, pulled him off balance, and drove his elbow into the nerve cluster where neck met shoulder. The scarred man made a strange, quiet sound, like someone trying to speak underwater, and his legs simply stopped working. He crumpled to the ground in a heap."My arm!" one of the earlier victims was screaming from the pavement. "I can't feel my arm! What did he do to my arm?""Shut up!" the leader snarled, but his voice had changed. The aggressive confidence was gone. What remained was the thin, tight sound of a man watching a situati
CHAPTER 145
The nearest attacker came in fast, swinging his metal rod in a wide arc aimed at Ethan's shoulder. The kind of swing that relied on surprise and brute force rather than technique.Ethan shifted sideways. Not dramatically, not with the exaggerated motion of someone performing for an audience. Just a small, precise adjustment of his body weight that moved his shoulder exactly six inches to the left. The rod sliced through empty air with a whistle that sounded almost confused.The attacker's momentum carried him forward, his balance committed to a strike that hadn't landed, and in that half-second of vulnerability, Ethan drove his fist into the man's stomach with surgical accuracy.The gasp that came out of the attacker was the kind of sound the body makes when every molecule of air is forcibly expelled from the lungs at once. His eyes went wide, his mouth opened, and his grip on the metal rod loosened as his hands instinctively moved to protect his destroyed midsection.Ethan's knee cam
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