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CHAPTER 524
"Look at her! Look at her ears!" Elara roared, her face flushing a deep purple as she yanked at her own hair in sheer frustration. "There is absolutely no way! Over my dead body! There is no universe where a Vance unites with this family! I’ll burn the entire corporate sector to ash before I let one of those vipers crawl into our bloodline!"Elara glared at Vivienne’s crimson ears, stunned by the absurdity of the reaction. She stopped shouting for a fraction of a second, her jaw slack as she stared at the high-society heiress, the woman who was supposed to be a calculating, cold-blooded machine. To see the legendary, composed Vivienne Vance turning bright red in a military trauma wing left Elara speechless, her mind racing to connect the dots.Zarek watched his sister, his dark eyebrows knitting together. Behind his stoic mask, he was genuinely wondering why Elara was this unhinged. He knew she hated the Vances for what they had done to Tinny, rightfully so, but this explosive, te
CHAPTER 523
"I am not buying a single word of this performance!" Elara yelled, her voice vibrating against the sterile walls.She refused to accept a syllable of Vivienne’s defense. "You Vances are all the same! You spin these beautiful, poetic lies when you're cornered, but the second our backs are turned, you bury a knife in them. I don't care if you’re from the main branch, the secondary, or the damn roots—your blood is tainted.""You are being blinded by your own rage!" Vivienne countered, her composure finally fracturing as she stepped forward. She was done being painted with the same brush as the monsters who shared her surname."If I wanted to protect them, would I have come here alone? Without an escort? Use your head, Elara! I risked everything to bypass my family’s comms-block just to get to Zarek.""Oh, a martyr now?" Elara barked, her eyes wild with a fierce, maternal protective instinct. To her, Tinny wasn't just a soldier; he was the kid she had watched grow, and seeing him poiso
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The words died in her throat. A bitter, hollow realization settled over her as the sheer futility of her explanation took hold. It didn't make sense; it couldn't.To a man like Zarek, who commanded armies with clinical precision and demanded absolute results, "trying and failing" to stop a rogue operation was a pathetic, empty excuse.If she truly possessed the conviction to defy them, why was Tinny lying on a surgical table even now, a neurotoxin actively unspooling his nervous system? Her frantic justifications were powerless against the cold, biological reality of the poison. She knew that to a military commander, her words were not a defense; they were an admission of total impotence."It doesn't make sense, does it?" she whispered, her voice fracturing. She stared at the floor, utterly defeated."Saying I tried to stop them changes nothing. It doesn't fix what they did to your brother."Zarek looked up from the tiles, his piercing gaze locking onto her trembling shoulders.
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Zarek took a deep breath, his massive jaw tightening as he reached a decision. He would wait for her right here. He needed to see exactly what she wanted before he let his vanguard soldiers erase her from the grid. If she thought she could use their past meeting to negotiate for the main branch's crimes, she was gravely mistaken.He leaned back against the wall, crossing his massive arms over his chest as the minutes slowly ticked by.Soon enough, the heavy security elevator at the end of the corridor chimed. The thick pneumatic doors slid open, and the second Vance daughter stepped into the high-profile trauma wing.She looked utterly out of place against the sterile, white walls of the military hospital. Her breath was shallow, her expensive coat hanging loosely over her shoulders. Her eyes swam with anxiety as she bypassed the vanguard sentries, who kept their weapons trained squarely on her chest. The moment her gaze locked onto Zarek’s imposing figure standing guard outside
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"Zarek!" Elara snapped, her frame bouncing slightly on the screen as she tore through the dark city streets. "What the hell is going on? Shaw told me the elite vanguard units completely locked down the sector, and now I’m tracking your flight path straight to the central medical district. Why is Tinny at the hospital? Is he breathing?"Zarek closed his eyes for a heartbeat, his massive shoulders tense. "He’s alive, Elara. But Vance’s enforcers used a neurotoxic poison disguised as a sedative. The medical team is running a cellular flush.""Those bastards," she hissed, the low roar of her engine revving in the background. "I knew they’d play dirty. Listen, I’m already on my way to your coordinates. And I didn’t come alone—I brought Beatrice Vance. If anything happens to our brother, the Vance family isn’t going to have an heiress anymore."Zarek’s eyes snapped open, locking onto his sister’s holographic image."Beatrice? Why did you drag her out?""Because she was available, and she’s
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He didn't waste another second glaring at Zarek; instead, he turned back toward the monitors, shouting rapid orders to his medical staff to prepare a cellular flush."Get out of my trauma bay," the doctor said, his voice firm and completely professional as he snapped on a fresh pair of gloves. "You don't have the medical data or the technical information to help him right now. You're just taking up oxygen and driving up the room's stress levels. Wait outside."Without a single word of protest, Zarek silently turned and walked out. The heavy automatic doors slid shut behind him with a soft hiss, cutting off the rhythmic, panicked beeping of Tinny’s heart monitor.The corridor of the high-command medical wing was dead silent. Zarek sat heavily on a metal bench, his massive frame hunched forward as he rested his elbows on his knees and buried his face in his scarred hands.As the quiet minutes dragged on, a suffocating wave of regret washed over him. He stared at the sterile floor til
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