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Chapter 527
Five armed soldiers standing to the side marched forward toward the tied-up women and cocked their rifles in one quick motion.The faces of the DiLaurentis family turned pale instantly. Nobody had expected it to go this far, this fast.“Stop this nonsense right now!” David DiLaurentis shouted, and the force of it sent a sharp, searing pain ripping through his chest. He groaned and collapsed back into the wheelchair, the butler rushing to settle him properly.Isaac raised one hand. The soldiers halted and stood at ease.He approached the wheelchair slowly. “Is there something you want to tell me, David? You were also taken by the Shadow of Death last night?”“What are you talking about?” David’s face twitched slightly, but he locked his composure down tight and gave nothing away.“The mercenary who kidnapped you and your granddaughters.” Isaac stopped in front of the wheelchair. “You may not be aware, but he is a nation-level threat wanted by the military. My investigation shows you pa
Chapter 526
Isaac Blake had been silent throughout the patriarch’s entire entrance. Now he took a step forward, and a cold smile appeared on his lips.“David, I have to give it to you. You really know how to make an entrance.” His voice carried the easy tone of a man who had not been rattled at all. “What I heard from the doctors was that you might be bedridden for a very long time. I suppose they were wrong.”“Did you decide to bully my family in my absence?” Old Mr. DiLaurentis’s voice still carried the same clear hostility. “Isaac, you may come from a higher authority, but that doesn’t give you this right.”He said it steadily, but the reality of Isaac Blake’s position was not lost on him. With his standing in the border military, Isaac was miles above the DiLaurentis family in terms of institutional power. On any normal day, even David would have chosen his words carefully around this man. But they had a history. One that the two of them understood completely, and that no one else in this co
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Isaac Blake’s face twisted into something that was almost unrecognizable on him. He gritted his teeth. “David, is that any way to address me? We haven’t seen each other in years. Shouldn’t bygones be bygones…?”There was something about the way he said it that couldn’t be easily read, not quite an apology, not quite a threat, sitting somewhere uncomfortable in between.The three tied-up women exchanged glances, the confusion plain on all their faces. Whatever relationship existed between Isaac and their patriarch, it was clearly something far more complicated than an old friendship. What exactly was going on between these two?“Bygones…?” David’s fist clenched tighter, and he shook his head slowly. “I warned you never to set foot in this estate again. Even two decades will not change that, Isaac.”At that moment, members of the DiLaurentis family began flooding out of the main estate building and the surrounding apartments, drawn by the voice of a man none of them had expected to see
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“Is that accurate?”Outside the main building of the DiLaurentis Estate, Isaac Blake stood with the group of soldiers that had just returned from the Ainsworth Mansion, his hands crossed behind his back.One of the soldiers stepped forward. “Grand Marshal, the information we received from the Ainsworths corroborates everything else our investigation has turned up.”A slow smirk spread across Isaac’s face. “Looks like the answers I needed were closer than I thought.” He glanced toward the compound. “Where are those women?”“Still tied up, Grand Marshal. They have refused to confess their involvement in the attack on Old Master DiLaurentis,” another soldier informed him.The smirk disappeared. Without a word, Isaac turned and marched away, the soldiers falling quickly into step behind him.They came to a stop in front of the large tree at the center of the DiLaurentis compound.The three women were still there, but the night had taken a visible toll on all of them. Their clothes were cr
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“That’s right…” Jared continued. “We don’t need a crowd. We just need to appear vulnerable for the night and leave our defenses open, giving him a clear path to infiltrate our territory.”“Brother, are you certain about this?” one of the female elders couldn’t stop herself from asking.Jared raised his chin. “I have everything perfectly planned out. All we need are the Seven Calamities. The rest of our security measures will be stood down for the duration of the event. We need him to believe he can walk into our household that easily, right up until he is standing in front of my face. And then he will not escape the Seven Calamities, who are always by our side.”The great hall broke into thunderous applause, the understanding spreading around the oak table like a lit fuse.The Stonewell Mansion operated on multiple layers of security, from the outer perimeter beyond the walls, through the gates, all the way into the mansion itself. Each layer was
Chapter 522
Meanwhile, at the Stonewell Mansion in the North District...Every member of the Stonewell Family had gathered around the large oak table in the great hall, the seats filled from end to end. Jared Stonewell sat at the head of the table, and beside him on his right was his eldest son and heir, Peter. Lila’s permanent seat, to her father’s left, directly opposite Peter, sat empty, still waiting. Debbie, the youngest daughter, was present among the elders farther along the table, and even Rita, the patriarch’s secretary, stood in her usual position just behind the old man’s chair with a stack of files gathered in her arms.Across the room, lined up at the far end opposite the oak table, stood six bald-headed practitioners in white martial robes, each one holding his wooden staff with both hands, faces raised, bodies completely still. They could have been mistaken for ornamental statues if not for the quiet energy that every person in the room
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