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Chapter 228. Fire.
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Rise Of The Betrayed Omega Chapter 231. A pawn.
** Stella's POV** Ezekiel looks at Shawn once. Something brief and unreadable passes between them. Then he nods and gestures toward the car at the far end of the yard. "It would be my pleasure. Come on," he says. I follow him without looking back at Shawn... I'm done with being used as his pawn. I need to concentrate on me and my pups. --- Minutes later, the city moves past the window in streaks of amber and white. Ezekiel drives and talks. His voice fills the car — telling me how his screen lit up when the building exploded, how his stomach dropped when the heat signatures shifted, how he pushed the drones harder than he ever has. He tells me he was scared. He tells me that is not a feeling he is particularly accustomed to and that I am responsible for introducing it into his life, which he says with a tone that is trying to be light but isn't quite making it all the way there. I admit that I hear all of it but I am not listening to any of it. I am thinking about Shaw
Rise Of The Betrayed Omega Chapter 230. Thank you.
**Stella's POV** Shawn doesn’t respond, and the silence only irritates me more. I fold my arms over my chest, glaring at him. “Tell me every business you have with Dmitri and Hank,” I demand. “Right now.” Shawn studies me for a long moment, his expression unreadable. For a second, I think he’s going to brush me off again. Then his jaw tightens and he finally opens his mouth. “Stella—” The voice comes from behind me instead. I drop my hands and turn immediately to see who is calling my name. I see Ezekiel crossing the yard toward us with drones hovering above him in a loose formation, their hum cutting through the sound of the fire still working through the eastern wall. He is moving with the kind of controlled urgency that is as close to running as a man like Ezekiel gets — jacket open, eyes already fixed on me, like he is scanning for injuries. What is he doing here? I frown. Ezekiel stops in front of me and his hands come up to my face before he has fully stilled
Rise Of The Betrayed Omega Chapter 229. Smoke
**Shawn's POV** But I don't stop.I pull my shirt up over my mouth and keep moving because stopping is not an option and thinking is not an option and the only thing that exists right now is finding her. "Stella!" I call to her but no response comes. The heat coming through the eastern wall is extraordinary — radiating through the concrete in pulses, the air shimmering with it. I count the turns from the layout in my head and move through the smoke and try again. "Stella!" Still nothing. The panic that moves through me is not something I have a name for because I have never felt it before. Not like this. Not this particular flavour of it — cold and absolute and sitting at the base of my throat like a hand closing around something it refuses to release. I find the room Stella is. The door is already hot to the touch. I put my shoulder through it anyway and it gives and I am inside and the smoke is thicker in here and I drop lower and scan the floor— There. She is on the groun
Rise Of The Betrayed Omega Chapter 228. Fire.
**Shawn's POV** My patience with Dmitri is hanging by a thread after the humiliating stunt he forced me to pull in front of Stella and his guards. It takes every ounce of restraint I have to keep my temper in check and walk beside him like this is something normal instead of the sick game he’s playing and clearly enjoying... The door closes behind us with a heavy thud and before we’ve even taken three steps ahead, I reach back and shrug Dmitri’s hand off my shoulder. “What else do you want?” I ask. “You got what I came for. I kneeled before you and begged. In front of her.” The words scrape my throat on the way out, it tastes like broken glass. "So tell me what this one more thing is," I continue. "So I can get it over with and take her home." Dmitri stops walking and raises his hands slightly — the gesture of a man who finds urgency genuinely funny. "Woah." He smiles. "Hold your horses, Black." he pauses briefly. "I can see you're in a hurry. But the thing is—" the smile
Rise Of The Betrayed Omega Chapter 227. A chat.
**Stella's POV** Meanwhile on the other side of the wall, I hear footsteps change in rhythm. I have been lying on the cold ground long enough to have memorised their pattern — the same rotation, the same interval, boots passing and returning and passing again like clockwork. So when they stop and multiply and start moving differently, I push myself upright as far as the chain allows. The silver burns where it meets my skin but I brace myself and press my back against the wall to listen to anything that could be useful to me to negotiate my freedom if it comes to that. But all I hear is someone giving a short instruction. And then — underneath the calm movements— a voice that I would know in the dark at the bottom of the ocean. "Shawn!" I don't plan it. It tears out of me before I can stop it. I grab the chain and pull myself toward the door as far as it will allow, which is not far at all. "Shawn — I'm in here—" The chain snaps taut against my ankle, I hiss through my teet
Rise Of The Betrayed Omega Chapter 226. No backup.
**Shawn's POV**(Meanwhile back at Ace Industries...)"A problem," Ezekiel says. "A significantly larger one than Dmitri."And from his monitor, I can see men patrolling the area where he located Stella a few seconds ago. "There are probably thirty men or more patrolling this place." He leans back in his chair. "What is your plan to rescue our damsel in distress?"Our damsel?! Is he fucking kidding me? I glare at him for a moment before answering him."My plan is none of your business," I say.Ezekiel scoffs and rolls his eyes. "Whether your plan is my business or not I can see fuel tanks along the eastern wall." He taps the screen where the heat reading pulses the wrong color. "Already compromised, or put there on purpose. Either way—" He looks at me. "If one of them ignites while you're inside you need an escape plan—""I will handle it," I cut him off coldly.Ezekiel turns and looks at me the way a teacher looks at a student who has just said something very confident and very wron
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