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146: Where Did You Hear That Bullshit?
The call has long ended, but the silence that followed was deafening.Kai didn’t speak. His fingers stayed clenched around the steering wheel even as the city lights blurred past them. Zora, who had put on her headphones earlier to give him some privacy, finally pulled them off. She turned toward him, noticing the stiffness in his shoulders, the shadow in his eyes.“Hey,” she said gently. “What happened?”Kai opened his mouth like he wanted to say something, but only a low mumble came out, completely inaudible. Then nothing.Zora tilted her head, brows drawn. But she didn’t push. Whatever he’d just heard had clearly shaken him, and for once, the ever-blabbering girl decided to keep quiet. She sat back in her seat, eyeing him occasionally as the car cut through the city.Kai didn’t say another word the entire ride.His mind was still stuck on the explosion. The deaths. Caleb. The thought that his bloodline was being quietly slaughtered from the inside out. He hadn’t even known these pe
145: Dead Men in the Bloodline
Kai's fingers tapped restlessly against the steering wheel as he drove through the city’s quieter back roads, his mind a storm of silence and fire but he didn’t see anything beyond the thoughts stabbing at his brain.Caleb. The riot. Lies buried years deep.He clenched his jaw, eyes darkening with each turn he made.He said he knew his mother. Said he was family. Helped him with cultivation, protected him more than once…Then why does it feel like every move he made was part of a setup?Was he just a pawn? A name to shadow?Was any of it real?Caleb stepped in like some long-lost guardian..and Kai welcomed him in.But now…Now the cracks were splintering open, and Kai didn’t know if he was uncovering the truth or stepping into someone else's trap. Zora watched the man in conflict with himself and she kept quiet despite wanting to question him but it was best to keep it shut, he doesn't want to provoke kai now.Ella’s voice broke through the silence on the call, cautious but sharp. “Ka
Chapter 144: The Past.
After a few long days of monitoring, antidotes, and endless groaning from both parties, Zora was finally cleared for discharge.Kai pushed the wheelchair with the enthusiasm of someone rolling a ticking time bomb. Zora, of course, was doing the absolute most. Waving at nurses like she was royalty, tossing dramatic goodbyes to the doctors, and even saluting a janitor.“Farewell, noble citizens of the healing citadel,” she announced. “I, Queen Zora of Stubbornland, take my leave!”Kai didn’t even flinch. “You forgot to thank the psychiatric ward.”She gasped, looking up at him. “How dare you! I was poisoned!”“Mentally or physically?”One nurse chuckled as they passed. Two elderly women whispered, and one said aloud, “They must be siblings. They even argue the same.”“I’m an only child,” Kai muttered under his breath.Zora grinned. “Aww. Does that mean I’m your first and last emotional damage?”Kai rolled her to the passenger seat of the car and unceremoniously opened the door. “In.”“Y
143: Awake, but Still Loud-Mouthed
The sharp sound of something being chomped... loud, slow, and unapologetically obnoxious snapped Kai out of his sleep. His eyes fluttered open, heavy from the weight of exhaustion, and for a second, he had no idea where he was.Then he turned his head.And there she was.Sitting up in bed like she hadn’t just cheated death, hair a mess, cheeks puffed with fruit, eyes bright with mischief, and crunching into an apple like the most dramatic patient the hospital had ever seen.Kai blinked. “What… the hell?”Zora grinned mid-chew. “Morning, sunshine.”He let out a low exhale, long and heavy, pinching the bridge of his nose. “You’re alive.”“Very,” she replied, raising the apple like it was a trophy. “And starving. Got a fruit basket delivery from someone. Could be from your rich lapdog Thane. Not sure. But damn, I needed this.”He studied her for a moment, really studied her. Her color had returned. Her breathing was steady. No signs of the poison flaring up again. The cocktail of antidot
142: They Are Dead.
Thane watched him in silence, his gloved hands folded behind his back. He had seen his young master angry before...furious, even. He had seen him storm entire buildings, break bones without blinking, rip through enemies with that infamous cold calm. But this…This was different.There was rage in his silence. Not the explosive kind, but the kind that simmered...that boiled low and steady, slow like lava, and dangerous like a blade pressed to the throat.Thane could feel it in the air around him. The shift in aura. The way Kai’s eyes never stayed still, the tightness in his jaw, the rigid stillness in his shoulders.He was mad.Not for power. Not for vengeance.This time… it was personal.Thane’s gaze flicked to the closed hospital door, then back to Kai.“I’ll find them,” he said quietly, his voice a vow. “Whoever they are, wherever they’re hiding, I’ll dig them out of whatever hole they crawled into. They’ll regret this, Young Master.”Kai didn’t respond immediately. He stood there l
141: A Reason.
Kai's heart stopped the moment he saw the black veins racing through Zora’s skin. The poison was moving fast—too fast.“Shit!” he hissed, dropping to his knees beside her. With trembling hands, he pressed his palm against her wound, his energy flaring as he activated a basic suppression technique. It wouldn't cure her, but it would buy time—if only a little.Her breath hitched. Her body jerked.Kai's breath turned ragged.“Stay with me,” he growled, his voice shaking more than he wanted to admit. “Don’t you fucking dare close your eyes.”He scooped her into his arms and stumbled forward, his mind racing. They were in the middle of the damn street so late at night —no car in sight. He turned, eyes wild, and that’s when he spotted it—an old taxi turning the corner, slow like it had all the time in the world.Kai didn’t wait.He ran straight at it, nearly throwing himself in front of the vehicle. The driver cursed, slamming on the brakes.The driver rolled down his window. "You—""City G
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