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Chapter 132
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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When Barbara returned home, her face was flushed with rage. The front door slammed behind her, the sharp echo ricocheting through the quiet hallway like a gunshot. A vase on the entryway table rattled from the force, and the mirror on the wall quivered slightly on its hook. Without so much as a greeting or the courtesy of removing her heels, she stormed into the living room where Logan sat quietly, reviewing a document under the warm glow of the floor lamp.“You!” she barked, pointing a trembling finger at him. Her voice cracked with fury, and her chest heaved as though every breath was an effort not to scream. “You are the reason everything is falling apart! You are the reason why Grandma Sullivan finally decided to cut us off!”Logan looked up slowly, his eyes calm and unreadable.The paper in his hands fluttered as he laid it gently aside on the coffee table, folding it once before releasing it like a final word in a long argument. He wondered what it was this time. Barbara wa
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"You want to know how I found out?” she asked, the words slicing through the hush. “Ava came to me. She came to me with tears in her eyes and fire in her voice. And she told me everything—every damn detail you all have been too cowardly to speak aloud."Ava's jaw quivered, but she held her tongue, uncertain whether speaking would worsen things.John stood protectively beside her, his arms folded and jaw set tight, his expression unreadable but simmering with tension. Barbara hovered a few steps behind, torn somewhere between shock and heartbreak. But Grandma Sullivan didn’t wait for anyone to brace themselves. She never had.“She said it started weeks ago,” the old woman continued. “Ava had been working day and night trying to stabilize Elysian Bloom. Ever since she stepped in as CEO, she’s been fighting an uphill battle—cleaning up after everyone’s messes. But this one—this disaster—this came from you, Charlotte.”Charlotte’s lips parted. A breath escaped. But no words followed.
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