Love Against the Bloodline

ngelica found hersel

behind. The last of the champagne hadn't even settled in the guests' stomachs befo

ice wa

ulat

ho'd lived too long in silence and finally

thing else - grief. Like she'd

racing faster than the tires could carry her. She was rushing, heading to

ke fabric and runways - it was armor. It was her vo

s. Anjel was nestled in a converted warehouse on the edge of the distr

ent hit her before her eyes could confirm it. Not smoke f

ants. Gasoline. Kerosene. A fire set wi

erked the wheel, parking severa

rocessing what she was seeing. Her life's work - every st

n get the chan

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rough the car. Glass shattered. Metal twisted. Her s

eployed. Time slowed. Blood in her mouth. Light

r chest - hard.

ess s

Not yet. Fragments returned. A gurney. Cold restraint

ent light. The sharp pinch of somethi

ething far worse. Not mean

final spark of awareness blinked out. She wasn'

she'd fought so hard to become... for the life being

ed against steel. Barked order

ore mov

no care. Her limp form thudded against a rusted crate w

lood, and seawater mingled around her. She was loaded wit

led. "You thi

other one replied. "

left his boys to do

ther seat, phone to his ear. "Just wanted to inform you... your little

hment. "She's my daughter, Marsell. You were only suppo

at. Never saw that divorce coming, huh? But listen, the setback's handled.

slide. I expect you to deliver what you promised.

's voice shook with fury and

el

tesy of your little 'serum.' Right

omon asked again, suspici

e's barely hanging on but let's just say... if she does die, it's beca

in her bloodstream ends u

ropped to a gravelly whisper. "I'll

ic

laughter, the kind

the deadline on his phone for a long time

d like a man who'd made a deal with the de

A kn

ge

lightly breathless. "You have an unexpected vi

could answer. Her eyes we

m her?" She cried,

say she was never admitted! Her office is gone! Bu

tarted, but his wo

ing!" Zaria

hat did you do?! What

ss, shadows deepening

word, he nodde

A

ing. Her body jolted and twisted mid-s

efore unconscious

n turned his back. S

sure no one hears whispers ab

bent to pick up Zaria, her

up. A video..

on her gown. In a wrecked car

barely

e finds this... I'm not dead. Yet. They tried. I don't know where I am,

crossed behind Solomon - the sound of a

stood

est he

hispered into his study: "Yo

ned sl

d him - a figure stepp

her. Dead for

eryone b