from the blood, but it carried an undeniable, crushing auth
e. But under his father's lethal glare, he bowed his head in utte
his cane against the floorboards. He demanded she ap
njustice and humiliation made her entire body tremble. But looking at her gr
Holden. She bent at the waist in a deep bow, her voic
couture gown naturally fell away from her body. It exposed a
led weapons or changes in breathing patterns. For exactly 0.1
e tail end of his glance. The humiliation in h
rp step back. She glared at him with pure venom, ut
idn't offer a single word of explanation. His
lculating gleam in his old eyes. He coughe
debt, Cordelia would sign a legally bindi
n physically struck. She screamed that it was imposs
he sobbed, begging Alistair not to throw the fa
brutal card: if she refused, he would instantly liquid
ribs. The core tech project she had poured her so
at her ruthless grandfather and her powerless parents. The
He only wanted access to the vault to st
spike of pain shot through his veins. The Progenitor genes la
ng estate's radiation shield to buy time.
thick, leather-bound contracts. He handed a gold fountain pen
pen scratched aggressively against the paper. It
crawled his name with a fluid, careless motion
d his second command: the two of them would mo
he vault access you require," he said, his eyes boring into Holden, "will be granted remotely. The necessar
ave burned a hole through Holden's chest, but she had noth
or, her stilettos hammering the floor. She barked at
ing the murderous glares from Warren and Beatri
ff the noise of the estate. They sat in the cavernous bac
nst his spine. The promised remote protocol had begun. It wasn't the full treatment of the vault, but it was enough to stave off the immediate
toward the glittering skyline of Manhattan, carrying two
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