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“This is how you treat someone you claim to like?” Tessa’s voice cracked at the edges. She was close to breaking, and she knew it, and she hated that he could see it. This wasn’t the first time her appearance had made her a target. There had been a time when she had taken quiet pride in her looks. Now she wished she could shed them entirely. They had brought her nothing but this — men who saw her as something to be acquired rather than a person to be known.Lord Hades shifted uncomfortably, something almost like shame crossing his face before his conviction reasserted itself. “I know how this looks, Ms. Armand. I know it’s despicable. But I needed to act — I couldn’t keep waiting, watching you stay in his orbit and never have a real chance. If I can have you, truly have you, I believe I can make you understand what I feel. The body and the heart aren’t so separate as people pretend.”“You are shameless,” Tessa said. Her whole body was trembling — not just from the fear of what the dru
Chapter 719
That selfish desire had been the root of everything that followed.When Lord Hades first uncovered information about Adam’s mother during his intelligence work, he made a quiet decision: he said nothing. He buried the findings, then eliminated the small number of subordinates who had been involved in uncovering them. Clean, efficient, untraceable. He had told himself at the time that he was simply keeping options open. He knew, even then, that he was lying to himself.Then Gunther released word that Adam was dead.Hades had felt something lift from his chest that he hadn’t realized was there. Without Adam, the obstacle simply ceased to exist. Tessa would need protection, guidance, someone capable of keeping her safe in a world that would immediately begin circling her the moment his Supreme General’s shadow no longer fell over her. He had already begun thinking through the details when the news arrived that Gunther had taken her.He hadn’t hesitated. He went after her himself, walked
Chapter 718
“I’ll let you go this time,” Adam said. “But hear me — if it happens again, I will kill you.”He didn’t wait for her response. He turned and moved, crossing the terrain at a pace that shouldn’t have been possible. The mountain slopes that would have taken an ordinary person an hour to navigate he scaled in minutes, his silhouette cutting upward along the rock face and vanishing over the ridge.Sasha stood at the lakeside and stared after him long after he had disappeared from view. The shock didn’t settle quickly. She had seen strong men before — warriors, cultivators, people who operated well beyond normal human limits. But what she had just witnessed felt like something categorically different. Something that didn’t belong in the same conversation as ordinary strength.She stayed there for a while, not quite ready to move.Storm City was ringed by mountains — not dramatic peaks but dense, tightly packed ranges that pressed in around the city from every direction. Hollow Reach Mounta
Chapter 717
Adam went still. Of everything he had prepared himself to hear, this wasn’t it.His mother was a warrior. She had never told him. All those years, all the searching, and he hadn’t known something that fundamental about her.“Who tortured her?” he asked, his voice quieter now, which made it more dangerous. “And where is she?”Sasha’s hesitation was brief. “The ones who tortured your mother — they were from Cosmic Island.”The silence that followed was absolute.“That’s impossible.”He had turned over every possibility in the weeks and months of searching. The Marhood family. The Jago family. Enemies accumulated through Supreme Nexus. He had worked through the list methodically, ranked by motive and capability. Cosmic Island had never appeared on it, because the question of how his mother — kept carefully away from his world, never exposed to his enemies — could have drawn their attention made no sense.“Sasha.” His eyes fixed on hers, cold and precise. “You understand what happens if y
Chapter 716
Ezekiel bent down, eyes gleaming, fingers stretching toward the box that held the phoenix blood herb.Victory was inches away.His hand was about to touch the lid.Adam’s eyes snapped open.There was no warning.No buildup.One moment he lay motionless in the dust, the next his palm shot forward like a cannon blast and struck Ezekiel square in the chest.The impact sounded like a drum struck by a hammer.Ezekiel’s body lifted off the ground as if pulled by invisible strings. He flew backward more than twenty feet, blood spraying from his mouth mid-air. His ribs caved inward with an audible crack.He crashed onto the rocks and rolled twice before slamming into a boulder.His eyes were wide.Not with pain.With disbelief.Sasha’s face drained of color, but her mind reacted faster than her fear.“Kill him now!” she screamed as she retreated several steps.The Jago family had iron discipline. Even with terror surging through them, none dared hesitate.Four grandmasters and the remaining p
Chapter 715
The explosion rolled across the mountains like thunder from the underworld.Peaks trembled.Cracks split across rocky cliffs. Boulders broke loose and thundered down slopes, crushing trees in their path. Birds burst from the forest canopy in panicked swarms, filling the smoky sky with chaotic motion.The destructive force of more than sixty pounds of military-grade explosives was no small matter. At that distance, it was enough to flatten reinforced concrete, let alone flesh and bone.Flames and soil shot upward in a towering column.The earth itself seemed to convulse.But Adam had sensed the killing intent a fraction of a second before detonation.The instant the ground shifted unnaturally beneath his feet, he moved.He launched forward like a hunting cheetah, muscles compressing and exploding in one seamless motion. His body cut through the air at terrifying speed, aiming for the edge of the blast radius.He almost made it.The shockwave expanded faster than human reaction.It caug
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