2026-05-07 23:59:55Secretary Lisa pinched herself lightly, then raised her head back to Serena with her eyes still wide. “Ms. DiLaurentis, if you are sitting right in front of me, then that means we are not dreaming. This is real.” She gestured toward the television screen, where the headline remained bright and impossible to ignore.
Serena glanced at the headline once more, and for a single second, a faint brightness crossed her face. But it vanished almost immediately. She sighed heavily and sank bac
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Her eyes settled on him, and that was when he noticed the scar. A thin, clean line running straight down the center of her face, the mark of a blade that had come startlingly close to taking both her eyes. But it wasn’t only the scar. It was the way she moved, the positioning of her hands, always slightly ahead of the rest of her body, prepared instinctively for surprises that most people would never anticipate. He had seen that quality before, in people who had not simply been near a battlefield, but had stood at the center of one. More than once. And had walked away. More than that, he could feel it. A continuous, rhythmic flow of energy circulating steadily through her being, moving in the pattern of someone with internal cultivation. She was a practitioner. A martial artist, and not a surface-level one. “Julius,” he replied simply. The name Elijah carried weight in certain military circles, even after his long ab
Chapter 508
The new day arrived quietly, the rising sun pushing its light through the open curtains and casting warm, unhurried rays across the room. At its center was Elijah Langston, sitting with his legs crossed in a Burmese meditation posture, his eyes shut, his hands resting calmly in front of him, his entire being settled into a stillness so complete that the room itself seemed to hold its breath around him.He had been cultivating through the entire night without pause, and now his core was back to its peak, brimming and full, the energy inside him humming at its natural frequency once more. The sunlight seemed to sense it. The rays that touched him carried a warmth beyond ordinary warmth, and where they fell on his skin, a faint golden hue bloomed and stretched slowly into the air around him, the kind of reaction that only pure spiritual energy could draw from the world around it.The door unlocked.The moment it pushed open, Elijah’s eyes opened with it,
Chapter 507
Elijah sat on the edge of the bed and clicked his tongue.His mind was already working back through everything Tessa had just told him, piecing it together with what he already knew.Of course, the military was going to get involved the moment they had intelligence that the Shadow of Death was operating in Brooklyn Heights. He had always known that was a possibility. What he hadn’t anticipated was how quickly it would move.That was precisely why he had given Osco as little information as possible when he called him to track the target. Osco respected him, genuinely, but his loyalty ultimately sat with the border military and the Supreme Marshal above it. That was simply the truth of it. Still, he was certain Osco hadn’t connected the dots. He hadn’t known who the target really was, so he wasn’t the one who had tipped them off.The trail had started elsewhere.Last night, he hadn’t been careful. Rescuing his family had been the only thing that mattered, and he had moved fast and ruth
Chapter 506
“I...” Before Elijah could find the words, she cut him off again.“You must be in shock seeing your wife here. Happy at the same time. So it’s a mixture of emotions. That’s what you could be thinking about...” The suspicious look on her face broke into a bright smile, then dropped almost immediately back to flat. “Or not?”Her moods shifted like weather, fast and without warning. For anyone else, it would have been strange. For Elijah, it was simply Tessa.He moved to the window, pulled the curtain aside, and looked out.Water. A gentle, dark expanse stretching outward, and far ahead, the lit outline of buildings along the outskirts of Brooklyn Heights.He wasn’t in a building at all. He was on a ship, anchored along the coastal stretch of the city, the part that opened into the wider ocean cutting across Sorevia.If Tessa had come by ship rather than a private flight, this wasn’t a simple intelligence visit. Those armed doctors and nurses hadn’t just been medical staff. They were par
Chapter 505
“Tessa,” Elijah began.She was faster.Her hands went to her waist, and she cut him off. “I already know what you’re going to say.” A short, dismissive sound left her throat. “Hmph. You never change, do you? Our love will never change either, Husband.” Her cheeks flared bright red, even as she said it with complete conviction.Elijah looked at her for a moment. Then he exhaled.“Does your father know you’re here?”He moved to rise from the bed, but the shackles pulled him back down with a sharp reminder that he hadn’t resolved that particular problem yet.Tessa’s expression shifted to something almost offended. “I am not a child.” She turned and crossed quickly to the locker beside the bed, opened it, and came back with a small remote in her hand, turning it over between her fingers. “I know you better than anyone, Elijah. Better than you think.” There was no exaggeration in her voice. “I knew the moment you woke up, you might kill every last one of my staff. The restraints were nec
Chapter 504
Meanwhile, at an unknown location...The bedroom was the kind of luxury most people only ever saw in photographs: an immaculate space with high ceilings and soft lighting that gave everything within it a warm glow. Silk sheets and dark mahogany furnishings. And at the center of it all, a young man lay sleeping.He would have looked perfectly at peace, if not for the chains.His arms were stretched wide to either side, each wrist locked into a heavy steel restraint bolted directly into the reinforced frame of the bed. His ankles were the same, spread apart and anchored, his entire body pinned open like a star, held down by mechanisms that looked less like something out of a hospital and more like something designed by people who understood exactly how dangerous the person wearing them could be.Doctors and nurses moved around him in white uniforms, quietly checking monitors, adjusting readings, and pressing instruments against his skin. signs. They circled him from every angle, filli
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