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Chapter 162

Author: Selome
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Chapter 162

The officers took their chance.

“Drop it!” one yelled, advancing two steps. “Final warning!”

But Jasper didn’t move. His eyes darted wildly between me and Lucian. His arm trembled harder.

“Don’t take another step!” he hissed. “I’ll.....”

He didn’t finish.

Another voice cut through, steady and commanding. “Now!”

Three officers surged forward, tackling him to the ground. The gun clattered away, sliding under the hospital bed. Jasper struggled, shouting incoherently, but he was overpowered. Metal cuffs snapped around his wrists.

The room exhaled all at once.

The silence that followed was deafening, broken only by the sound of my ragged breathing and Lucian’s uneven gasps.

I slumped against the wheelchair, every muscle trembling, my palms slick with sweat.

Jasper lifted his head slightly as they dragged him up. His face was bruised, his hair sticking to his forehead, his eyes glinting with something cold and venomous.

Even then.... even cuffed and defeated, he found me in the
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