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CHAPTER 712
The Commander’s jaw dropped.His hands began to shake violently in the mud.Memories he had buried under a decade of Syndicate cleanups came screaming back, the cries in the Eastern Sector, the stench of burning chemical vats, and the girl he had personally carved a message into before leaving her for dead in a collapsing basement.“The… the survivor,” Caleb breathed, his voice a ghost of itself. “The girl with the red ribbons. You… you were supposed to be ash.”“Ash rises, Caleb,” Ivy said, finally bending to retrieve one of her wire handles. “And sometimes it learns how to cut.”The forest seemed to hold its breath as moonlight struck the jagged silver of Ivy’s scar.Caleb stared at the ruined skin, his mind racing through the archives of his own cruelty until he found the file he thought he had burned.“The girl with the red ribbons,” he whispered, his voice cracking like dry glass. “You were in the Eastern Sector basement. The incendiary charge… nothing survives a thermite collaps
CHAPTER 711
She gestured with the silver wire handle toward the man holding the rifle to Lottie’s head.“Here’s a bit of free advice,” Ivy continued, her tone shifting to something cold and authoritative. “It would be much better for your health, and the health of your families back in the city, if you dropped those guns right now.”Her eyes darkened further.“Step back, turn around, and let Caleb take his beating in peace. If you do that, I might let you keep your hands.”The guards exchanged a fleeting, uncertain glance.They weren’t used to victims giving orders.“You’re delusional,” the lead guard spat, though his finger wavered slightly on the trigger.From her hiding spot, Molly watched with wide, terrified eyes.She knew these men were the Syndicate’s finest killers, but the way Ivy spoke to them… it was as if she were addressing children.Molly realized that if these men didn’t run now, the forest floor was about to become much more crowded.Caleb, still groaning on the ground, managed to
CHAPTER 710
Caleb was in his element. A whirlwind of white hair and blood-stained silk, he drove Ivy back with the sheer force of a man who had rediscovered his own ego. He felt like the Commander again, the high-ranking predator who didn't just win fights, but dismantled souls."Look at you!" Caleb laughed, his voice cracking with a manic edge as he landed a heavy punch against Ivy's defensive guard. "The great 'Black Vine' is nothing but a withered weed! You spent ten years sharpening your wires and forgot that a boot to the face solves everything!"Ivy staggered, her hand pressed against a bleeding cheek, her breath coming in ragged gasps. She looked cornered, her back hitting the rough bark of a pine. Caleb stepped in for the killing blow, eyes gleaming with the triumph of a man about to reclaim his legend. He coiled his weight into a straight right that would have ended the chapter."Say hi to the women in hell for me!" Caleb roared.But Ivy didn't duck. She didn't weave. She didn't e
CHAPTER 709
Ivy stepped forward, the monofilament wire singing as she snapped it taut.Her eyes were cold, sharp as the glass shards littering the forest floor, locking onto his.“I’ve been watching you for a long time, Caleb,” she whispered, low and hauntingly personal. “Tell me… has life been good for the ‘Great Commander’ while you spent the last decade making women’s lives miserable?”Her gaze hardened.“Did you sleep well after the Eastern Sector? After the lives you shattered just to climb the ladder?”Caleb flinched, as if struck, taking a hesitant step back, boots dragging through the mud.The way she said his name, not as a title, but as a target, sent a shiver of real fear down his spine.“How do you know my name?” he demanded, voice cracking. “I never introduced myself. You’ve been calling me ‘Caleb’ since you stepped out of those vines. Who the hell are you?”Hugo exchanged a glance with Lottie, brow furrowed in suspicion.“Lottie… how does she know him? She’s not just a bodyguard. Sh
CHAPTER 708
With a flick of her wrists, two silver handles slid into Ivy’s palms. She drew them apart, and a thin, nearly invisible strand of monofilament wire hissed tight between them. Moonlight skimmed its edge, turning it into a stray beam of silver suspended in the dark.Caleb’s grin didn’t falter, though his pace slowed. “A garrote? You think you’ll get close enough to use a string on me? I’ll snap your neck before you even loop it.”“Try me,” Ivy whispered.Caleb roared and lunged, moving with explosive speed that defied his injuries. His gauze-wrapped fist arced toward her temple, a blow meant to end the fight in a single strike.Ivy didn’t retreat.She stepped in.She slipped beneath his guard, the wire singing as her arms crossed.The filament kissed Caleb’s forearm and sliced through fabric and skin with terrifying ease. He hissed, jerking back… But Ivy was already gone.Behind him.“Hugo, look,” Lottie breathed, eyes wide as the clearing blurred with motion.Ivy became a phantom
CHAPTER 707
The forest floor was a chaotic tapestry of churned dirt, shredded leaves, and the metallic tang of Caleb’s blood. Every few seconds, the rhythmic crack of Ivy’s rifle split the air, pinning the high-ranking commander behind a decaying log like a beetle under a boot.Caleb scrambled, his white hair now matted to a muddy gray, his expensive tactical gear torn by thorns. He lunged for a fallen branch to use as leverage…CRACK.A bullet barked into the wood an inch from his ear. He flinched back, breath hitching in ragged, humiliated gasps.“Come on, Commander!” Ivy called, her voice light and mocking. “I thought you were the king of this jungle. You’re looking more like a panicked rabbit.”Caleb gritted his teeth, eyes darting frantically. He spotted his discarded tactical vest a few feet away, the one he’d tossed aside in arrogance.If he could just reach the flashbang in the side pocket…He bolted.CRACK.The round hissed past his thigh and bit into the mud. Caleb dove, fingers claw
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