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Chapter 140
Logan’s steps crunched on the gravel as he closed the gap between himself and Kent who was standing on the front porch.Kent’s eyes narrowed in suspicion with his voice rising to a shout. “What the hell are you doing in my house, Logan? And what did you just do to my dogs? They’ve never shut up for anyone!”Logan didn’t answer his question. His tone was ice. “I need to see my daughter, Chloe. You’d better produce her at once!”Kent’s expression hardened into defiance. “Look, fool. I don’t have your brat! You’ve got some nerve showing up here—”Logan took another step forward. “I’m not playing games. You have her. Bring her to me now.”Kent moved to block the door, squaring his shoulders. “You’re not stepping a foot inside my house.”Logan’s lips curled into something between a smirk and a snarl. “You think you can stop me?”Kent lunged forward to shove him back, but Logan was ready. In one swift motion, Logan sidestepped, grabbed Kent’s wrist, and twisted it behind his back.
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The snarls of the dogs grew louder, their teeth bared and their eyes glowed in the dusk light. Five of them now crowded near the rusted iron gate, muscles tensed, were ready to leap. Logan stood firm, his jaw clenched, not backing an inch. His shirt clung to him, drenched in sweat, but his eyes burned with rage. Then, from the front door of the large weather-worn house, a man emerged. Almost immediately, Logan recognized him instantly. He was Kent, Logan's uncle. One of his father’s elder brothers. Kent was a man known for his cruelty and arrogance—a man Logan had hoped never to cross paths with again. Before now, Logan didn't know this was Kent's house. After all, Kent had a house in the main city. Kent squinted, then scowled. “What the hell are you doing here?” he barked. His voice was rough from years of liquor and bitterness. “You’ve got no business stepping into my property, Logan!” Logan's voice was as cold as the night breeze. “You know why I’m here. Bring ou
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The nurse’s voice was shaky as she described the vehicle. “It was… dark blue, maybe black. An SUV, I think. The license plate was partially covered, but I remember the last three digits—2F7. The man… he was tall, maybe in his late forties, wore a long coat, and he didn’t speak much. He just showed the papers, and the hospital staff let him take her.”Logan’s jaw clenched. That vague description wouldn’t be enough to trace the vehicle through normal channels, but Logan wasn’t relying on normal channels.“I’ll handle it,” he muttered darkly.He stepped aside, pulled out his phone, and dialed a secure number. “Get over here. Now,” he said before ending the call.Charlotte stood beside him, her eyes swollen from crying. “Logan… what if she’s alive?” she whispered, her voice raw with hope and dread.Logan didn’t answer. He couldn’t afford to hope yet—not until he had proof.Fifteen minutes later, a tall, broad-shouldered man in a plain black jacket walked into the hospital corridor. He was
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Logan’s hands clenched at his sides as the nurse repeated her words, her voice trembling slightly. “I… I don’t know where Chloe’s body was taken to.”His jaw tightened. “What do you mean you don’t know?” he asked, his voice rising with each word. “How can a whole human being, my daughter, be taken out of this hospital and no one knows where she is?”The nurse took a nervous step back, eyes darting toward the exit. Charlotte, still red-eyed from crying, stood beside him, her breath caught in her throat. She reached for Logan’s arm as if to calm him, but her own expression mirrored his—utter disbelief and rising fury.“I swear,” the nurse stammered, wringing her hands, “that’s all I was told.”“That’s not good enough!” Logan barked. “I’m calling the police.”He pulled out his phone and started dialing, his hands shaking from rage and desperation. The thought of losing Chloe had already crushed him, but now, the idea that her body could just vanish into thin air—no records, no exp
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The phone trembled in Logan’s hand, the words on the other end of the call echoing in his mind like a death knell. “We’re sorry… Chloe didn’t make it.”“What?” Logan's voice cracked. “What do you mean? Who—hello?” The line went dead.For a second, Logan stood frozen outside the Sullivan mansion, the wind whipping around him as if mocking his stillness. Then, without a second thought, he darted into his car and sped toward the hospital.His mind raced faster than the engine. No. This can’t be. She was improving. I saw her color return just yesterday. This has to be a mistake. Someone’s playing a cruel joke.But as he screeched into the hospital’s parking lot and sprinted through the front doors, the panic inside him began to outweigh the denial.He burst into Chloe’s ward, only to halt in place.The bed was empty.The sheets were rumpled, the pillow stained with dried tears. And beside it, kneeling and sobbing uncontrollably, was Chloe’s nanny.Logan’s heart dropped.“Where is she?” he
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Marcus hadn’t expected to see the old man still breathing.He stood at the doorway, his arms rigid at his sides, staring at the man lying on the bed, whom his family had long counted out. Pale, frail, and shadowed under the weight of time, Curtis was still unmistakably alive. Breathing and conscious.And that fact unsettled Marcus more than he was willing to admit.How in the world did he sail through?Marcus’s thoughts raced. His uncle—Logan’s father—was supposed to have died quietly. Marcus's family and some other branch of the Brooks family had carefully sponsored the administration of the poison to make it appear like a natural degeneration of health. His own family had helped orchestrate it, working silently with another branch of the Brooks clan that shared a deep grudge against Curtis. After all, it had always been about that damned heirloom.Possessing the heirloom meant control over the Brooks name and its fortune. And control was everything.Marcus swallowed hard and s
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