One Hundred Years Later: The New Era Belongs To Me

on the vast estate beyond. The mansion loomed like a silent monarch,

reath-and that the little boy who once clung to her skirts, spoiled and petulant, would one

was his final wish-how he had clung

stepped forward and pressed the doorb

A butler in an immaculate suit hurried

rdening. "The Wright estate is not receiving visitors at th

ken authority. "I am the person Damien Wright has been waiting

ds-then burst into laughter, h

hundred years ago! And you dare stand here, a young woman barely out of her teens, spinnin

ed at the guards behind him. "Get this lunatic away fr

y guards advanced, their hand

, Alice tensed with remarkable agility, twisting her

rough the air with the swiftness of a striking serpent, and

ithstood the blow, yet under the sheer po

lor. "What-what are you trying to do?!" he stammered, his voice trembling. "I warn

y made my intentions clear-I must see Damien Wright. I

past them, she walked straight into the

oom, grief weighed heavil

now 107 y

st year. Three months earlier, he had slipped i

delivering the same grim verdict: organ failure. There w

ad been rescued from death nearly a hun

yes fluttered open, he murmure

he was holding on to

way, his face hollow and unrecognizable, to

trained. "But she's been missing for a century. Even if she somehow survived back then... how could she still be

der finding someone to impersonate her," he proposed cautiously. "Father isn't lucid-maybe such a

a has been absent for a hundred years. None of us has ever laid eyes on her. And after the old mansion was consum

year-old great-grandson lowered his head, quiet

oor opened. Alic

woman before them-beautiful, composed, and appearing no o

itors?" Michael snapp

dark. "Whoever you are, leave imm

aren't you?" she said softly. "Let me see him. Only if he sees

oed through the room

mily stiffened, disbelief wri

o revered that even the President addressed him with defe

a thunderous roar. "Who do you think you are

o the staff. "Get t

nts alike moved toward Alice, re

ce radiating an unshakable certainty, as if s