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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Elijah's eyes moved.Slowly, they rose until they were level with Richard's.A low sound escaped him at first, barely more than a breath. Then it grew into laughter.His bloodstained teeth showed through lips that hadn't stopped bleeding.Blood still ran freely from his mouth, his nose, and the corners of his eyes, streaking down a face that should have belonged to a corpse by now.Yet beneath it all, something in his eyes refused to fade.His wild laughter carried no fear, nothing like what you'd expect from a man on the verge of death.“Descent into madness?” Richard's brow knitted together. “Goodnight, Son-in-law.”He clenched his fist.The two dark daggers buried in Elijah's core and heart detonated at the exact same instant.His energy core, already fractured beyond repair, shattered completely, the pieces scattering inward beyond any hope of ever being reformed. Where his heart had been struggling through its final beats, there was simply nothing.No burst. Just an empty space
Chapter 615
Elijah didn't respond this time. All that remained of his strength kept him from passing out entirely. The only reason he was still upright was the firm grip holding him from behind.He didn't need to hear it. Not even from Richard.The transaction papers had already shown him things about his mother he never knew, and Charles Adelson's words had corroborated all of it. Even now, standing in front of him, Richard hadn't refuted when he made mention of the matter. But none of these people had known her the way he did. That she would ever involve herself in sponsoring terrorism with Langston wealth, killing thousands, and tearing apart the peace of Sorevia... Only hearing her say it herself would ever convince him that the woman he remembered had never truly existed.If she was dead, he would find wherever she had ended up in the afterlife. And if she was still alive...“Is she alive?” The words still found their way out despite
Chapter 614
Richard shook his head slowly. “They were right to name you the Insolent Expert. Even now, it stands clear. You don't have the slightest knowledge of the one standing before you, yet you think yourself capable of the impossible.”“All I see is a coward.” Elijah spat the words out.“Me?” Richard touched his own chest and laughed. “Do you think this is about me? That I woke up on the wrong side of the bed one morning and decided to wipe out an entire family on a whim? I am nothing but a messenger of kings.”The darkness surrounding him swelled even further. The clouds above began shifting again, slower this time.“What was your grand plan?” Richard's eyes darkened, all humor draining from them. “Bully the families we established and then come for me? What next, hunt down the names you forced me to mention?”“You're goddamn right.” Elijah forced it out, ignoring the continued damage the words did to his core.“You know nothing.” Ric
Chapter 613
The seconds that followed weren't accompanied by rage or madness.Elijah remained quiet, his eyes fixed on the man in front of him, his punctured heart settling into a steady, labored rhythm.Instead, in that smallest window of stillness, his mind raced at an insane speed, circling back over everything that had happened recently and searching for details he might have missed.The evening Serena last spoke with her father hadn't been one of the ordinary ones she might have had once or twice before.That very night had been his first encounter with the man in the hood, with Old Mr. Carrington's help. Destroying that netherworld entity had directly severed the part of the man in the hood's soul that had formed the pact. He would have ended it that very night if the man hadn't been quick enough to strike a new pact with the netherworld to escape death.With the damage he had dealt to the hooded figure that night, he had known it wou
Chapter 612
There was a small pause as Serena enjoyed herself, the blood still covering her face.This wasn't Serena. This wasn't his wife. She might be standing in front of him right now, but this wasn't her. Not in the slightest.“I guess it doesn't hurt, else you would cry for me...”She let go of the dagger buried in his heart, and another appeared almost immediately in her grip.She made to stab again, but a voice that sounded like thunder echoed across the mountaintop.“Enough!”Serena paused mid-motion like something mechanical, tilted her head to the side, and pouted like a scolded child.Elijah could feel another presence arriving at the top of the mountain now, one that made his already restricted energy core vibrate violently against his will. His dulled spiritual senses still managed to register the malevolence approaching. The pressure of it pushed down on his body like an actual mountain settling onto his chest.
Chapter 611
Elijah Langston arrived in the deep woods inside the BMW. He brought the car to a stop at the foot of a mountain and alighted quickly. “What are you doing here...?” He looked at the screen of his phone to see the pulsing marker of Serena's location now covering his own, the exact pin sitting atop the mountain rising in front of him. It was a live share, so she hadn't just moved here. This was where she had sent him those videos from. Remembering how much she had panicked when she first called him, he knew he couldn't delay. She must have gotten herself into trouble by getting her hands on that footage. If anything were to happen to her because of him, how would he live with that guilt? Elijah pocketed his device and climbed over a small rock at the base. “I'll be there...” He said it with a determined expression and started climbing from the foot of the mountain. His bare hands found the rock face, and his spiritual energy pushed through every muscle as he moved. His fi
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