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Chapter 133: The new recruit
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His Runaway Queen Chapter 153: Zero Day
*Aria’s POV*The basement of the penthouse was a place where screams went to die. It was soundproofed, cold, and smelled of bleach and old copper.Lucian walked down the concrete stairs, his footsteps heavy in the silence. He had changed his shirt, but the blood on his hands felt permanent.I followed close behind, my injured arm throbbing with every step. I had insisted on coming. I needed to see the face of the man who had tried to bury us.Rylan was already down there. He stood by a heavy steel table where Silas was strapped down. The old man was awake now, the sedatives worn off. He looked terrible—battered, bruised, and pale, but his eyes were bright with a manic, hateful light."Ah," Silas rasped, his voice echoing in the small room. "The King and his Queen. Come to gloat?"Lucian didn't speak. He walked to the table and placed a heavy .45 caliber pistol on the metal surface, the metal clanging loudly."I'm not here to gloat," Lucian said. "I'm here for the name."Silas laughed,
His Runaway Queen Chapter 152: The Patriarch
*Aria's POV*I watched the grainy monitor in the panic room, my breath fogging the glass of the gas mask. The green haze in the penthouse was slowly dissipating, sucked out by the emergency ventilation system Damian had activated.On the screen, Rylan was zip-tying Silas’s wrists. The old monster was limp, unconscious, a bag of bones and malice on the expensive rug.But Lucian wasn't there. He was running."I see him," Rylan said, his voice tight in my ear. "He's in the stairwell. He’s heading for the garage.""Is Adrian... is he really with Victor?""The nanny isn't answering her comms," Rylan said grimly. "She's in the garage."I gripped the edge of the console. "I'm going down there.""Aria, your arm–""My son is down there."I ripped the mask off, the air tasting of bitter almonds and stale fear. I grabbed the spare pistol Rylan had left on the counter."Open the door."Rylan hesitated, then hit the release. The heavy steel slid back.I ran.---------------------------------------
His Runaway Queen Chapter 151: The Antidote
*3RD POV*The rain in Geneva was a cold, relentless drizzle that turned the streets into mirrors of wet asphalt. Rylan crouched on the rooftop of the building opposite the Aethelgard office block, the water dripping from the brim of his cap.He adjusted the earpiece. "I'm in position. I have eyes on the server room window. Third floor."Lucian’s voice came through the comms, sharp and static-filled. "We're live on this end. Damian is ready."Rylan looked down at the device in his hand. It looked harmless – a simple black drive with a single LED light. But inside it was the 'Antidote' – a polymorphic virus Damian had written in three hours of feverish concentration. It was designed to hunt the corrupted fractal code, latch onto its unique signature, and burn it from the inside out."Thermal shows two guards inside," Rylan whispered. "I'm going in."He didn't wait for confirmation. He rappelled down the building, swinging through the open window of the server room.The two guards were p
His Runaway Queen Chapter 150: The Architect's Mark
*Aria’s POV*The pain was a dull, rhythmic throb that radiated from my shoulder to my fingertips. The doctors had said I was lucky – the bullet had missed the artery by a centimeter. But as I sat propped up in the hospital bed, watching the sun rise over the city through the reinforced glass, I didn't feel lucky. I felt like a target painted in red.Lucian hadn't left my side, but his mind was elsewhere. He was staring at the closed door of the guest room down the hall – the room where Damian was recovering.The confrontation with Victor had left a scar on Lucian’s soul, but the silence surrounding Damian was festering. The fractal tattoo. The ring Silas wore. The connection was too loud to ignore."I have to ask him," Lucian said suddenly, breaking the silence. He was standing by the window, his back to me. "I have to know if the hand that shot you was guided by my brother.""If he is the Sinner," I said, my voice raspy, "he wouldn't still be here, Lucian. He would have finished the
His Runaway Queen Chapter 149: the price of silence
*Aria’s POV*Pain was a color. It was red, sharp, and blinding.I floated in a haze of antiseptic and beeping monitors. The world was a blur of white coats and hushed whispers. I tried to move my left arm, and a searing hot poker drove through my shoulder, dragging me back into the darkness.When I finally surfaced, the room was dim."Easy," a low voice rumbled.I turned my head. Lucian was sitting in a chair pulled right up to the bedside. He looked wrecked. His shirt was blood-stained – my blood. His eyes were red-rimmed, dark circles bruising the skin beneath them. He was holding my hand, his grip tight, as if he was afraid I would vanish if he let go."Lucian," I whispered, my throat dry."Don't try to move," he said, his voice cracking. "The bullet shattered the head of your humerus. They had to piece it back together with pins."My memory flashed back – the fight, Silas standing over Victor, the deafening bang, the feeling of flying backward."Silas?""Gone," Lucian said, his ex
His Runaway Queen Chapter 148: Blood Of The Covenant
*Aria's POV*The penthouse was a powder keg.Lucian hadn't slept. He sat in the armchair in the corner of the master bedroom, staring at the closed door, as if he could see through the walls to the guest room where Damian lay sleeping. The revelation of the fractal tattoo had shaken him to his core, fracturing the trust he had desperately tried to rebuild."He has to have an explanation," I said, pacing the length of the room. "A tattoo from years ago? It doesn't prove he’s the Sinner, Lucian. It just proves he likes math.""It proves he kept a secret," Lucian said, his voice rough. "In this family, secrets are bullets."Before I could respond, the penthouse intercom buzzed."Lucian," Rylan’s voice came through, tight with urgency. "You have visitors.""I didn't authorize any visitors.""It’s your father. He just walked in. He... he bypassed the elevator lock. He has a master key."Lucian stood up, his face hardening. "Bring him to the living room.""And... there’s another car behind
His Runaway Queen Chapter 88: The glass wall
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*Lucian's POV*The helicopter dropped us into the storm like a stone plunging into a dark ocean.We were three miles out from the coordinates Cassian had given me. The pilot couldn’t get any closer without alerting the acoustic sensors Malcom undoubtedly had scattered across the mountain. The momen
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