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Clara stood there, frozen like a deer in headlights, absolutely blindsided by Jack’s lightning-fast move.Before she could even blink, he’d snatched the wooden box right out of her grip and shoved it into Kelly’s hands.“You slimy piece of trash!” Clara exploded, ripping the box back with a furious yank.“Steal my shot at a promotion, will you? Sister Florence, would you control your idiot son before I wrap this box around his neck?”Florence glowered at Jack, pinching his ear so hard he yelped. “You little thief, when did you decide it was okay to rob your own aunt?”Jack rolled his eyes, whining like a spoiled brat. “Mom, I was trying to turn a profit for us. Why blow money on something that won’t ever pay us back?”“Who said I won’t pay it back?” Clara snapped, holding the Verdantheart Root’s box to her chest like it was her baby. “I’ll double the money and throw it in your face if I feel like it!”Alex finally cleared his throat, attempting some sort of ceasefire.“Miss, what exac
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Kelly threw back her head, laughing so hard it practically echoed in the room. “Five million for a piece of rotten root? That’s the best joke I’ve heard all year,” she sneered, her eyes flashing with glee.She had zero sympathy for Clara—she’d been waiting for the perfect moment to see her crash and burn.Clara’s glare could’ve sliced through steel. “Shut your mouth. Before I shut it for you.”“Ooh, scary,” Kelly drawled, raising a brow.“Try it, sweetheart. See if you can get within two steps of me without breaking a bone. Yours, obviously.”Clara’s cheeks turned a furious red, and she looked ready to fling the withered root at Kelly’s face.Florence, sensing things could only get uglier, jumped in.She flashed a desperate smile at Kelly, like a drowning woman begging for a hand. “Miss Kelly Kington, we’re from the Lancaster group—your partner in a few deals, remember?”“Didn’t you say you wanted the Verdantheart Root? We’ll sell it to you for just ten million. A bargain, right?”Flo
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Kelly let out a delighted whoop, practically bouncing on her heels.“Alex, you lucky bastard! You took a gamble on half a million bucks, and it’s paying out like a goddamn gold mine. I can’t believe these are actual Verdantheart seeds!”Even Kelly, who’d seen her fair share of wild riches, couldn’t hide her awe.“I’ve never even laid eyes on something rumored to be worth hundreds of millions. But thanks to these fools letting it go, here we are.”She shot an incredulous glance at Clara and Florence—her tone cold enough to freeze blood.“Seriously, though, you two deserve a medal for Most Oblivious Sellers of the Year. I almost feel bad you let it slip away so cheap…almost.”Her words landed like a series of sharp jabs, making Clara and Florence look even more devastated.They had basically thrown away a treasure that could’ve netted them a fortune beyond their wildest dreams.From the sidelines, the crowd buzzed with fascination, envy, and raw disbelief.“Did I hear that right? Seeds
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The night had been anything but kind to Jasmine.By dawn, her eyes were shadowed with fatigue, and every page she turned in her endless stack of documents felt heavier than the last.She hadn’t slept a wink. Just as she considered closing her eyes for a second, a firm rap on the door snapped her back to reality.“Miss,” the butler called from the hall, his tone measured but urgent. “Master Charles insists on meeting with you.”Without looking up from the paperwork, Jasmine sighed. “Insists, does he? Well, he can stay outside until he collapses, for all I care.”The butler cleared his throat gently. “He’s here on official business, Miss—claims he’s representing some of the stockholders. He also said he won’t leave until you agree to see him.”Jasmine’s lips curled in a wry smile. “Typical Charles. Gets a shred of power and thinks he can barge anywhere.”She finally set her documents aside. “Fine. Let him in. If he causes trouble, I’m sure you’ll handle it.”The butler inclined his head
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Alex blinked in confusion.“I’m sorry—what did you say, Master?”The old man smirked.“You heard me, boy. This so-called ‘world’ is a grand fake-out. A cheap illusion. Have you ever bothered to question why you’re alive? What’s the purpose of life? Where do you go after death—and do you really believe you’ll live again once you’re dead?”A chill seized Alex’s spine. “Master, are you talking about reincarnation? We die, then return... but with a new life, right?”The old man’s laughter rasped through the room like a rusted nail scraping metal.“Don’t flatter yourself, kid. Who says you get a fresh start each time? What if, after you keel over, you snap right back to day one in the same tired script? Over and over. Like some glitchy video loop that never stops replaying because you’re too blind and clueless to notice.”Alex swallowed hard. “That’s... horrifying.”“Horrifying?” The master’s lip curled, contempt dripping off every syllable.“What’s really scary is that you’re alive right
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Jack felt the blood rushing to his head, ready to let loose a storm of expletives.His shoulders were tense, fists clenched by his sides, when Florence stepped between him and the inevitable disaster.“Jack, enough!” she said, her voice cutting through his fury.“Clara’s your aunt. You’re going to show her a bit of respect. She came all the way from Vermont, and this birthday bash could help her make some connections. Let her head out with Charles and Sophia.”Jack’s glare shifted from Florence to Clara. “Oh, I heard it loud and clear, Mom. Helping dear old Auntie Clara rub shoulders with Miss Kane—great plan. Let me know when I can book my slot to kiss her ring.”Clara raised her chin and smirked. “See that? I’ll be on the fast track to the high life once I befriend Miss Kane. Maybe I’ll toss a few crumbs your way too!”That was the match on Jack’s fuse.He slammed his open palm down on the edge of an antique vase, rattling it violently. “Do us all a favor, Clara, and don’t make prom
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Charles stepped into the hotel lobby when Clara suddenly clung to his arm with a dramatic gasp.She nearly toppled over, pretending to lose her balance.“Ouch—I’m feeling a bit faint,” she murmured, batting her eyelashes. “My blood pressure just dropped out of nowhere. Can you help me? I promise it’ll only be a few minutes.”Charles steadied her, concern tightening his features. “Are you okay?”“It usually never happens,” Clara replied, leaning in closer.“Just give me a minute or two to rest.” She pressed herself against him as if she couldn’t stand on her own, making sure everyone in the room could see how intimately she was hanging on.Sophia, standing a step away, rolled her eyes.Clara saw that and pounced on the opportunity.“Sophia, you said you needed to meet someone important—about those connections you were making? Don’t let me keep you,” she cooed.Sophia shrugged. “Sure, I’ll be upstairs in the banquet hall.” Without further ado, she exited.Clara didn’t even watch her go;
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Clara’s fingers trembled as she realized she couldn’t keep up the charade any longer.She shot a desperate look at Bella Kane, who glowered down at her from the top of the marble staircase like a queen about to sentence a dead prisoner.“Miss Kane!” Clara pleaded, voice shaking.“Y-you have to believe me… I swear, it’s not what it looks like. This necklace isn’t mine. It’s Sophia’s—my niece—Charles gave it to her, and I just borrowed it for tonight. That’s all!”Bella’s gaze narrowed, eyes cold as steel.“Sophia Lancaster, you said?” she hissed through gritted teeth.“Is that the woman who waltzed in here with Charles? The one shameless enough to show off in front of me?”Clara nodded vigorously, sweat staining the collar of her dress. “Yes, that’s her. She and Charles… they came together, and I only tagged along.”“I… I confess I was envious of the necklace, so I took it for myself tonight. But this whole mess—it isn’t my doing, Miss Kane. Honest to God. Please… just spare me.”Bella
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Jericho’s breath rasped as Alex’s boot ground into his neck.His cheeks flamed with humiliation, and his eyes flared with rage and panic.In all his years clawing his way up—from Vancouver’s back alleys to Vermont’s glitzy political stage—Jericho had believed himself untouchable.But now he lay in the dirt like a trampled dog, struggling for every breath under some unstoppable force of a man barely in his twenties.He spat dirt from his mouth.“Let me go…” It came out as a pathetic wheeze, his voice cracking with desperation.His pilot had been filming everything, eager to broadcast Jericho’s triumph to certain smug relatives who’d been hoping to witness him punishing Alex.Instead, they watched live as Jericho’s nose hit the ground and Alex’s foot pressed into him, forcing him to choke on his own shame.The Vermont families, once bowing to every word Jericho uttered, now stared in horror at his defeat.They couldn’t hear the words exchanged, but they saw enough: Jericho Kane, flatten
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Jericho Kane froze in place for a heartbeat, then burst into harsh laughter.“You’ve got a lot of nerve talking to me like that,” he growled.Alex just smiled and flipped a small platinum badge through the air.Jericho snatched it, then felt his pulse spike the moment he recognized the symbol: the Kignswell, the secret task force working directly under the new King.“The Hunting Dogs of the King.”“Mind your tongue,” Alex said, stepping forward with a confidence that matched Jericho’s icy arrogance.“The King has had enough of you. You think Vermont is yours just because your father-in-law was the old king? It's time to return the state to its rightful ruler.”Jericho bared his teeth.“Never. The people voted for me to govern this place—nobody’s gonna change that!”“ You? You’re just another fool who thinks he’s the hero. All I have to do is end you here and now. Nobody will even know.”Alex’s easy grin didn't waver.“Kill me? You really think you can pull that off?”“You’re a pup,” J
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“Who the hell is this freak,” one of the assassins hissed, voice trembling as he watched the bodies of his fellow Vermont Elite sprawled across the cold pavement.Fear gnawed at his gut, and the moment Alex gave him permission to scram, he took off running.They’d trained for decades to be unstoppable, to rule Vermont by Jericho Kane’s side—but all of that meant nothing in the face of this unstoppable force.He sprinted through the night, lungs burning, and jabbed the call button on his smartwatch.“Sire,” he panted, voice trembling. “We’re facing a monster… and he’s demanding a meeting with Master Kane.”Moments later, Jericho slammed his fist onto a heavy oak table.The table burst into splinters under his blow.“Who does that arrogant bastard think he is? Some boytoy of Hilton wants to summon me? Me? The Governor of Vermont!”“I’ll damn well show him who he’s dealing with!”Vetala hovered nearby like a ghostly shadow.“Sir, I’ve watched his moves. I’m convinced he’s not just some r
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They exchanged wary glances, each person unsure how to react.Minutes before Alex arrived, Jack had yelled loudly enough for half the hospital to hear him:“I don’t care if it was demons or damn gods who hurt Sophia—I’ll kill them all. I’ll burn the whole world down if I have to!”The others chimed in, bravado swelling like a rising tide. “Damn straight! I’ll give up my life if that’s what it takes.”But the moment they learned Jericho Kane’s daughter was behind the attack, every ounce of their fury vanished like smoke in the wind.Gods and demons? Sure, they were easy to hate—unseen, distant, nothing more than ideas.But Jericho Kane was flesh and blood, a man who could wipe out families on a whim.Suddenly, no one even dared to whisper a word of protest.Florence and the others grew restless, every one of them understand: messing with the Kane family was suicide.Even if they were spit on, kicked around like stray dogs, they had no power to fight back.“You won’t have to worry,” Ale
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The hospital reeked of antiseptic and despair. Jericho Kane shoved the double doors open with the rage of a god uninvited.He froze.There she was—Bella, his daughter.His golden girl.Mangled beyond recognition.Her once-radiant face was now a ruin of blood and shattered bone. Her arms?Torn like wings from a fallen angel.Her legs? Bent in ways only nightmares could dream.He staggered a step back, his lips trembling. Then—“Who did this?!”The roar cracked through the ward like a gunshot.Nurses flinched. A bodyguard limped forward, face pale, one eye swollen shut.“Sir… it was Alex,” he rasped.“Jasmine Kingston’s… boy toy.”Jericho’s knuckles cracked as he clenched his fists, fury dancing in his eyes.“Alex? That son of a bitch again. He has the audacity to lay a finger on my daughter?”He glared at his guards, eyes blazing. “Why didn’t you protect my daughter?!”The guard swallowed hard, bracing himself.“He’s… stronger than we expected, Sir Kane.”Jericho seized the guard by th
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“Um.” Everyone froze, eyes wide, as they watched Barbie fall to the ground, blood spilling across the floor.If they hadn't seen it themselves, they wouldn't have believed it.A legendary warrior—undefeated in the arena—now dead by a single bullet.Jaws dropped. No one could’ve seen this coming.They thought Barbie’s arrival would settle things. Instead, everything flipped upside down.“You!” Henry barked. “Don’t you have any honor? How could you use a gun in a fight?”“Good question,” Alex nodded, cool and sharp.“Why would anyone try to fight someone with a gun using their bare hands? Is she stupid? Most people run from a gun, not charge at it—unless she really thought she could win.”“She can’t!” Henry screamed.“She rushed me. I figured she could take it. So, I shot!” Alex snapped back.“Alright, Barbie, I’m sorry,” he added, his voice flat.“You bastard! What’s the use of your sorry? She’s dead now!” Henry shouted.Alex’s answer was another shot—this time grazing Henry’s thigh.H
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One by one, each guest stepped forward with a look of grim determination.Every time someone approached, two sharp slaps resounded—one across Bella’s cheek, the other across Henry’s—before the guest left without so much as a backward glance.It was a relentless parade of humiliation, everyone too afraid to disobey the man who commanded them.While this sick assembly line of slaps continued, a subordinate from Kingwell handed Alex a thick folder.The moment he read its contents, his expression darkened.Still, the slapping went on, as if the guests were workers on a factory line.Bella’s face swelled to twice its size, and Henry’s lips were puffed and raw.Tears streaked Bella’s cheeks as she whimpered, “I’m sorry.”Alex folded his arms, looking unimpressed.“Oh, really? Tell me, Bella, have you ever forgiven anyone who begged you for mercy?”Bella sniffled, her voice trembling, “Yes… I mean, if someone apologized—”Alex snorted. “Don’t lie to me. I’ve dug up all your dirty secrets in
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Alex leaned back in his chair, casually stretching his arms as though bored by the whole ordeal.“Next,” he drawled, voice flat. He shot a cold glance across the room.“You, brown hair in the black suit. Get over here.”The man in the black suit stepped forward, trembling so hard it looked like his legs might give out.He risked a quick, apologetic glance at Bella.“I’m... I’m sorry,” he muttered. Then, in a jittery burst of courage or desperation, he raised his arm and slapped her.The crack of flesh echoed in the silence.Bella flinched, blood trickling at the corner of her mouth.Alex gave a dismissive yawn.“Move it along, people. Don’t make me do it for you.” He cocked his pistol and spun the barrel for emphasis.“From here on out, if anyone’s slow to follow orders—” he tilted his head to the side, eyes flashing menace.“—I won’t waste my time with warnings. I’ll just shoot.”A hush fell over the crowd.One by one, people inched forward, some grimacing with regret, others almost
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Everyone in the ballroom knew one unspoken rule:Never cross the Kanes.So when this random nobody smacked Bella Kane across the face, it felt like time itself froze.Every head turned, jaws hanging open. The gasp was almost a collective choke.“Is he out of his damn mind?” someone muttered.“He actually hit Bella Kane… He must have a death wish.”A hush fell, thick with fear and disbelief. For as long as anyone remembered, Bella was the one who dished out the torment—never the other way around.In that moment, the unthinkable had happened.Bella swayed on her heels, hand pressed to her flaming cheek.Her eyes were wide with equal parts shock and wrath.No one, no one, had ever dared lay a finger on her.“You—” she spat, voice cracking, “you dare… you dare hit me?”Alex felt adrenaline rattle his veins. He’d lashed out before thinking; a part of him hated that he’d struck a woman.He flexed his hand, trying to ignore the sick churn in his gut.“Kill him!” Bella shrieked, voice echoing
