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Chapter 60
"Take those words back right now, Miller, or I will kill you myself."Clara didn't recognize her own voice. It tore from her throat like a jagged piece of glass, low, trembling, and dripping with an absolute, lethal horror. She backed away from the foot of the bed, her hands flying to her ears as if she could physically block out the sound of the room."Look at the paper, Clara," Miller pleaded, his voice cracking beneath the weight of the confession. He held the document out, his hand shaking so badly the paper rattled in the quiet room. "Look at the DNA markers. I'm not lying to you!""I don't want to see it!" Clara shrieked, backing straight into the cold glass wall of the ICU room. "Get away from me! Get that filthy paper away from me!""Clara, please, listen to me," Miller whispered frantically, taking a fast step toward her, his eyes desperate. "Arthur Vance had two families. He kept your mother hidden in a quiet house outside the city for four years. He wrote her letters every
Chapter 59
"Touch one single page of those papers and I will tear them out of your hands and shove them down your throat."Clara didn't back away an inch. She stood like an iron wall between the bed and Harrison Vance, her knuckles white, her eyes burning with an unholy, defensive fire that made the older man falter for half a second.Harrison let out a sharp, dismissive breath, his thin lips twisting into a cold sneer. "You have your husband's dramatic flair, my dear. But dramatic speeches don't hold up in a probate court.""Julian isn't in a medical coma!" Clara yelled, stepping directly into Harrison's space, her voice trembling with intense rage. "He is resting! He had emergency surgery hours ago!""The charter explicitly defines a coma as any medically induced state lasting longer than six hours," Harrison countered, raising the heavy document bearing the blood-red wax seal. "He has been unresponsive since four this morning. As of ten minutes ago, I am the sole trustee of Vance Global.""He
Chapter 58
"Clear!"The high-voltage shock surged through Julian’s frame, throwing his bare chest off the narrow stretcher with a sickening, violent jerk. The flat tone of the monitor cut through the deafening roar of the helicopter blades like a razor blade slicing straight through Clara’s soul."Julian!" Clara shrieked, her bound wrists straining against her knees as two medics shoved her back into the corner of the cabin. "Julian, don't leave me!""Charging to three hundred!" the lead medic yelled, his brow dripping with sweat as he slammed the paddles back into the gel paste. "Hands off! Clear!"The electrical charge struck his body again. Julian’s head snapped backward against the hard foam pad, his jaw slack, his face a ghastly, translucent white beneath the harsh cabin lights.Silence stretched for two suffocating seconds.Beep.Beep. Beep.A ragged, erratic pulse fluttered across the digital screen, weak and dangerously fast, but beating."We have sinus rhythm!" the second medic shouted,
Chapter 57
"I will spit on your grave just like my father should have twenty years ago."Julian’s voice ripped through the freezing courtyard, thick with blood and malice. He lay twisted on the bottom marble step, his chest bared to the cold wind, but his bloodshot eyes burned up at the man in the wheelchair with a terrifying, unholy hate.Arthur Pendelton let out a dry, rattling chuckle that turned into a harsh cough behind his breathing mask. "Your father was a sniveling coward, Julian. He cried on his knees in this very hall when he realized what Victoria and I had built.""You dragged my family through hell!" Clara screamed from the stone tiles, her bound hands shaking behind her back as she tried to crawl toward Julian. "You let Julian believe his mother was dead! You turned Marcus and Ethan into monsters!""Marcus and Ethan were hungry little dogs," Arthur said, his ancient voice thin but sharp as a razored blade. "They thought they were playing for the crown. They had no idea they were ju
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"If you shoot him, you will have to execute me first."Clara threw her entire body across Julian’s chest, her fingers digging desperately into his wet hospital gown. She stared up at the black barrel of the assault rifle, her eyes wild with an absolute, unyielding desperation.The masked soldier didn't flinch. He grabbed the back of the paramedic's collar, dragging the terrified man out of the side door and throwing him onto the rain-slicked asphalt."Get off him, lady!" the soldier barked, his voice muffled behind his heavy tactical mask. "We are here for Vance! Move!""No!" Clara shrieked, her voice tearing raw against the cold night air. "You'll have to put a bullet through my spine!""Clara... get... get down..." Julian rasped, his eyes snapping open as a surge of pure adrenaline forced its way through his exhausted, freezing body. He tried to raise his left arm to push her behind him, but his muscles trembled violently, refusing to obey. "Leave her out of this!"The small silver
Chapter 55
"He went under three minutes ago, Clara, and he isn't coming back up."Ethan stood on the slick wooden steps, dark ocean water dripping from his tailored suit onto the pier planks. The silver automatic in his hand pointed steadily at Clara's chest, his face twisted into a triumphant, grotesque smile."You're lying!" Clara shrieked, her voice tearing raw against the freezing rain. She backed away toward the edge of the pier, her eyes darting frantically to the black, churning water below. "Julian! Julian!""Save your breath," Ethan sneered, taking a slow, heavy step forward, his wet shoes squeaking on the wood. "The man had no blood left in his veins. He tackled me over that rail, lost his grip in the tide, and sank like a stone.""No!" Clara screamed, her entire body shaking so violently she could barely keep her feet. "He's not dead! He wouldn't leave me with you!""He didn't have a choice!" Ethan shouted over the roar of the storm, his eyes flashing with manic delight. "His heart st
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