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Chapter 134
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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The room was thick with tension, the kind that wrapped around your chest and squeezed until breathing became a conscious task. Logan wiped the sweat off his brow with the back of his trembling hand, his gaze fixed on the gaunt figure of his father lying motionless on the hospital bed. The once-proud man, a pillar of strength, was now reduced to a barely breathing corpse-like shell. No antidote known to modern medicine could fix this. No science could reverse what had slithered its way deep into his father's bloodstream. Logan leaned in and pressed his ear against his father’s chest. Beneath the faint heartbeat, he heard something else: a low squelching gurgle that didn’t belong. His hands tightened into fists.“I need a bowl,” he said abruptly, his voice sharp and commanding.The closest servant, a young man hovering anxiously near the door, looked startled. “Sir?”“A bowl. Now. From the restroom. Clean and deep enough to hold liquid.”The servant didn’t wait for further clarif
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Logan leaned over his father’s still form, the silence in the hospital room thick with dread.Machines beeped softly, a cruel reminder that the man on the bed was barely clinging to life. Logan’s hands trembled as he gently pried open his father’s eyelid. The whites were yellowing, the iris cloudy, but what caught Logan’s breath was something far more disturbing—a tiny serpent, black and writhing, coiled behind the lens of his father's left eye.It wasn’t an illusion.The snake blinked back at him.A chill spread down Logan’s spine. He had seen this before—this exact phenomenon. It haunted the edge of his memories, tied to the night his mother died. Her illness had baffled doctors too. Now, staring into his father’s eye, he knew better. There wasn’t time to explain the supernatural to the room full of skeptical doctors and nurses. Logic had failed his family before. Medicine couldn’t save his sister who died. He wouldn’t let the same fate fall on his father. Turning sharply, Log
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Logan stood frozen, staring at the black patches spreading like ink beneath the paper-thin skin of his father’s face. The discoloration looked alive—pulsing, creeping upward from the neck, following the hollow of the jawline like tendrils seeking something deeper. The pulse of shadow, dark and unnatural, throbbed visibly beneath his cheekbone, matching the exact same mark Logan had seen years ago—on his mother’s lifeless body.The memory sliced through his mind like a blade.A cold shiver ran through him, sliding down his spine and coiling in the pit of his stomach. Could it be the same people behind his mother's death that were also behind this?His legs moved before he realized it. A single, unconscious step back. Dread clawed at his throat, and his hands trembled at his sides. That was when one of the doctors—an older man with tired eyes and a graying beard, reached out and gripped his arm firmly, grounding him in the moment."Sir," the doctor said quietly, his voice edged wit
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Logan was a bit surprised when he saw the name on the screen: Felix—his father’s lifelong butler. Reluctantly, Logan answered, keeping his voice flat, devoid of warmth. “Felix?”There was a pause—tense, pregnant with unspoken emotion—before Felix’s strained voice finally broke through, heavy with urgency and grief.“Master Logan… your father… he’s not well. He’s on the verge of death. You need to come home.”Logan’s jaw clenched instantly. That word—home—tasted bitter, corrosive, like old wine turned to vinegar. He hadn’t called it that in years. Not since his mother had died and the world he once knew rotted into something unrecognizable. He hadn’t forgiven his father for standing idle while his mother withered away in silent agony, day after day, until the light left her eyes. He’d never forgotten that betrayal. And he’d certainly never let it go.“I don’t care,” Logan muttered, voice cold and clipped. “Whatever happens to him isn’t my business.”“Master Logan, please,” Feli
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