2024-09-23 00:01:27“Grandpa, you shouldn’t get so worked up over something so small. It’s bad for your health.”
“Small... small matter?”
Grandpa Abraham stammered, his voice subdued, as if he had swallowed the bitterest of pills.
“How can you—”
Suddenly, he gasped, clutching his chest.
“Ahhh!”
His heart raced uncontrollabl
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Chapter 843
Alex hit the old tree at four in the morning, and the old tree did not care.His fist stopped a metre short of the trunk, the way it always did now. The air jumped. A few yellow leaves spun down onto the wet stones of the harbour wall, and that was all.He stood there with his breath smoking in the cold. The energy of heaven and earth came to him thin as the mist, a cup at a time, when what he needed was a river. To raise his cultivation, he needed rare herbs, a pill or an elixir. Westmere had none of them.When he got back, Felicia was sitting on the kitchen step with a plate of bread on her knees."You've been out since four, Prince.""I was hitting a tree.""Did you win?""It's a draw."She held up the plate. "Then eat. Even trees have breakfast."---At ten he walked up into the misty hills. He could hear the cough before he reached the door of the long grey house.Mr. Wolfe sat bent over a handkerchief that was not white any more. Nina knelt beside his chair, holding a glass of w
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"The tenth prince." Hector came away from the door, laughing softly."Sir, did you hear her? The idiot of the Tiffany kennels. The whole coast has laughed at him for fourteen years. He sleeps by their dogs."His voice rose. "And you bowed to him. Twice. In front of me.""Hector," said Mr. Wolfe."You bowed to a kennel dog, sir!""HECTOR." The old man did not raise his voice often.When he did, the brushes jumped on the table. "One more word, and you will leave this house and never come back to it."Hector's mouth shut. His face went from red to white.He stood there with his broken wrist in its cast, and the paper with the herbs on it crushed in his good hand, and he looked at Alex as if he were memorising him.Alex smiled at him. Then he turned back to Nina."I learn many things," he said."That isn't an answer.""It's the only one you're getting.""I could tell the whole coast," she said. "The idiot prince fights like a demon and writes secret arts in school notebooks. Do you know w
Chapter 841
They came at him from three sides at once.The old man in the middle like a wall. Nina high and fast from the left. Hector low from the right, one good hand, his face white with hate."Now!" roared Mr. Wolfe.None of them could touch him.A brush of fingers under Nina's elbow sent her flying past her grandfather. The old man's great palm came, and Alex was not there. He was behind them, on the stone where Nina had started, with both hands back in his pockets."Again?" he asked."Again!" Nina screamed.They came again. And again. And Hector stopped fighting like a disciple of anything. He went for Alex's eyes with his thumb. He stamped for the back of his knee.When that missed, he tried to drive his cast into Alex's throat.On the fourth time, Alex caught him by the collar."You're a guard of this family," he said. "Fight like one."He turned once and let go. Hector flew past Nina and landed face down in the rain puddle between the roots of the old tree, so hard the water splashed her
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Before the girl could answer, a sharp-faced young man came down the stone steps two at a time."Nina. Step back from him."Hector stopped in front of Alex and looked him up and down: the borrowed jacket, the scuffed shoes, the fish-market dust on the hems. Then he laughed."Ten times superior? A dock rat with salt still drying on his boots wants to lecture the Wolfe family?"He leaned in until his face was a hand from Alex's. "Exactly who do you think you are? A fool like you needs to be shown just how high the heavens really stretch.""Hector, leave it," said Nina. "He's nobody.""Nobody insults the Wolfe art in front of you. Not while I'm alive."Alex glanced past him at the old man. "He's in love with her, isn't he?"Hector went red to the ears. "Shut your mouth! I am Mr. Wolfe's senior disciple. No one is allowed to look down on our art! Let me teach you the first lesson, rat. You should always—"Hector struck in the middle of his own sentence: a fist low for the ribs, the other a
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The next morning, the grey car parked at the corner was gone.The gardener who raked the gravel path and meticulously logged every movement in his notebook was gone.For two long months, someone had watched his every breath. Now, the surveillance was completely dark.For those exact two months, the crown prince, the second prince, and their co-conspirators had fancied themselves geniuses, paying operatives to monitor and harass him.His counter-strategy? Play the absolute fool.Give them nothing.What kind of trouble they can inflict on an idiot who refuses to react the way they want?Absolutely none. They were merely burning through time and capital while drowning in their own vicious succession war.After all, Alex wasn't the only target the crown prince had marked. With the second prince and the rest of the royal siblings locked in a brutal mutual destruction pact, they were tearing each other apart.Compared to the raging dumpster fire of the royal court, Alex's existence was the
Chapter 838
In the Tiffany yard, under every light in the house, nobody moved. Even the ambulance men had frozen with Preston's stretcher halfway up the steps."He isn't?" The Baroness said it the way she named a price she would not pay. "Since when do you tell me what happens in my house?""Since tonight, Grandmother."Serena crossed the stones and stood beside Alex. She did not look at him. She held the leather folder in both hands, tight enough to bend it."Can we do this inside? Or do you want the neighbours to hear it too?"The Baroness's eyes cut across the street. The neighbours were already out on their steps, craning their necks, drawn by the ambulance lights. By morning, the Tiffany house would be the joke of the whole town.She pivoted hard on her cane and marched inside. The family fell in behind her, the way they always did.In the long dining room, the dinner candles had burned down to stubs.The Baroness took the head of the table. Pauline stood at her shoulder with her little whit
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