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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 an answer
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
Chapter 229: The Girl Who Would Not Stay Behind
Johnny turned and started walking toward the port. His footsteps were steady. He knew he'd made the right call.Bringing her along would have been reckless — she'd slow him down, and more than that, she was an unpredictable variable. A wild card. And in a place like this, wild cards got people killed.Mia would only create more variables. She was unpredictable, emotional, and after everything she'd already done tonight, the last thing he needed was another person to protect. One mission. Save Margaret. Nothing else.Behind him, the car door opened."Johnny!!"He turned around, and his jaw nearly dropped.Mia was running toward him. Free.Without Darren. Without the handcuffs."How the hell did you pick that lock?!"She stopped in front of him, breathing hard — chest rising and falling fast beneath her shirt — and gave him a smile that was equal parts pride and mischief."It's one of the many ways I can be useful to you."Johnny closed his eyes. Of course she could pick locks. He opene
Chapter 228: Why did you lie
Johnny's hand slowly tightened into a fist, as he just stood there, because somewhere deep inside he had already suspected it. He had wanted to believe her. That was the part that annoyed him most."Why did you lie?" Mia's hands dropped from the wheel. She looked down at them for a second, like she was gathering pieces of herself."Because I wanted to be in your life," she said quietly. "No matter what.”For a moment he didn't say anything. The words were simple — I'm not actually pregnant — and a few minutes ago they would have destroyed him“I know what I did was horrible. I know what I took from you. I know I don't deserve to just walk back in and pretend nothing happened. But I didn't know any other way." She continued stepping closer."The pregnancy was the only thing I thought would make you listen. The only thing that would stop you from shutting me out completely.""That's the same reason I did what I did in the red room."Johnny's eyes narrowed slightly. "Speaking o
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