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Chapter 235: Indefinitely
For a moment Johnny didn't move. He simply stood there, Mia's words echoing in his head — I tried. I was too late — but his eyes weren't listening to explanations.They were fixed on Margaret, lying on the floor with blood covering her clothes, her face pale and lifeless.Then consciousness slammed back into him like a waking dream, and he moved.He crossed the room in three strides and pushed Mia aside, just without thinking. His hands found Margaret's, cold and sticky with blood, and he dropped to his knees beside her."What the..." His voice came out strangled. He gripped her hand. "What the hell happened?!"Mia was shaking. Red to her elbows, tears cutting clean lines down her blood-streaked face."I found her, I was about to get her out, but the guard appeared. I had the gun — I was going to stop him before he could do anything." She looked at her blood-covered hands. "But I was too late. He fired first. He shot Margaret before my bullet could reach him."Some part of Johnny's b
Chapter 234: The Final Dance
Hawkeye's slow applause echoed across the port.Johnny stared at him. He had just fought through an army of guards — bodies covered the concrete around him, his clothes torn, blood staining his shirt, the alarm still screaming through the port. And Hawkeye stood there clapping."Impressive," Hawkeye said through his mask. "Very impressive."Johnny wasn't interested. He ran straight at him.Hawkeye's hands dropped instantly, his body shifting into a fighting stance, one foot sliding backward. His sonar and thermal systems were already active behind the glowing lenses.Johnny could hide from normal eyes — but not from him. Not this time. Go ahead. Disappear.Johnny closed the distance. Ten meters, seven, five. Hawkeye tracked every movement. waiting. Predicting. He was expecting the stealth. Expecting the trick Johnny had used twice before. His whole battered body was coiled around that single assumption.Then Johnny's right leg dropped low — a sweep — and Hawkeye shifted his weight to
Chapter 233: The Beast Awakens
The first guard lunged forward and Johnny met him with an elbow to the jaw that put the man straight to sleep. The second came from behind — Johnny caught his wrist, turned, and threw him into a third.Bodies crashed into shipping containers. The alarm kept screaming its red heartbeat over everything.But there were forty of them.Even with his combat skills cranked to the ceiling, even with the Combat Lens painting every movement before it happened, physics didn't negotiate. Knuckles found his ribs. A baton cracked across his back.He grunted, spun, and drove his fist into someone's throat, but the hit he took doing it cost him.Johnny wiped blood from the corner of his mouth and took in the battlefield around him. The situation was bad. Not impossible, but bad.A fist came toward his face. He moved just in time, the punch missing by centimeters, but before he could counter, another man appeared from the side. He blocked the strike with his forearm, twisted the man's wrist, and drove
Chapter 232: Mia -- The Price of Wanting Him
What did I just do?The question echoed in her head as she moved through the red-lit halls. She could still feel it — the ghost of his lips on hers, the warmth of him for those two, three seconds before he'd pulled away.Mia did not know when it happened. That was the part that bothered her most. She hadn't planned that kiss, not really. She had planned words, excuses, ways to make Johnny look at her again.But that had been real. And that was the problem, because real feelings were dangerous. Mia hated losing control.She had spent so long believing everything could be managed if she was smart enough, careful enough, ruthless enough.But Johnny had always been different — he ruined every calculation she made.One moment she had been executing her plan to slip back into his life, make him need her again, then take control like she always did. Control was her language. Her weapon. Her comfort.But somewhere between the confession and the kiss, that control had started to slip through h
Chapter 231: Surrounded
The blue screen expanded fully, hovering right in his line of sight like it owned the moment. For a few seconds, he simply stared, his brain refusing to process the words — not because he didn't understand them, but because he understood them too well. [STAGE 2 COMPLETED: MARKED] Requirement met: Genuine affection/love for you. [REWARD: $100,000,000,000 || Mercedes-Maybach S 580 4MATIC] A hundred billion dollars. Another absurd reward, another impossible gift from the system. Normally, that number alone would have stopped him cold. But right now, he couldn't focus on the money because the system had just confirmed something else. Mia. Her feelings — the thing he had been questioning since the moment she walked back into his life, the thing he wasn't sure he could ever believe again. The system had judged it as real. Genuine affection. Love. So she wasn't lying? The question came naturally. Then, immediately another followed. Does that mean I can trust her? Before he could find
Chapter 230: The Second Link
The bullet hit him before he even heard the shot. Pain exploded through his shoulder — hot and sharp — forcing his body to stumble backward.For a second his mind went blank, not because of the pain but because Hawkeye had done the impossible yet again.He had seen them."Fuck." Johnny grabbed his shoulder, feeling blood running between his fingers.The stealth ability had been perfect, the system hiding their presence completely. Nobody should have been able to find them.Nobody except him.…[INSTANT HEALTH RESTORATION ACTIVATED]…A second shot cracked through the air before Johnny could even breathe. His body moved on its own. Not thought — instinct.The part of him that had survived a hundred fights took over, grabbed Mia by the arm, and dragged her across the concrete toward the cover of a nearby container stack, as three more shots followed in quick succession, the bullets tearing through the spaces his head had occupied a moment earlier. His wounded shoulder screamed. His le
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