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Anthony watched his daughter die on the spot before his own eyes, and a broken wail wrenched itself from his throat.He seemed to age ten years in an instant, crumpling in on himself, without a shred of strength left to struggle.Gordon closed his eyes, and when he opened them again there was nothing left but indifference.He turned to Leon and bowed in apology. "Don Thorne, it was the Perrone family's failure to keep our own in line that brought about this tragedy. Anthony's crimes are beyond pardon. By the old family law, he will be stripped at once of all property and command of arms, struck from the Perrone line, and imprisoned for life at the quarry deep in the northern mountains, never to set foot outside the pit again.""Would that satisfy you?" he asked humbly.Leon said nothing, only turned his head to me, signaling that the decision was mine.I nodded. "The Perrone family raised me, and I owe them that. Deal with Anthony by the family law."Gordon waved a hand as if a weight
Strangers in the End Chapter 11
Anthony slumped down onto the cold steps, his whole body shaking like a leaf.Karina was pinned hard to the marble floor by two bodyguards, her gown scuffed to rags, her face a smear of tears and foundation, her shrill wailing setting the whole gallery ringing.Leon was just about to speak and hand down the punishment when a dark mass of black-clad figures suddenly surged up from below.The tread of leather shoes on the steps was heavy and even, as all twelve elders of the Perrone family made their entrance.At their head, Gordon leaned on an ebony cane, his grizzled brows knotted tight.Every man behind him wore a gun at the waist glinting cold, and in an instant they had Anthony and his daughter surrounded.Gordon first bent low toward Leon. "Don Thorne, Anthony and the rest will be dealt with by us according to family law. We wouldn't dream of troubling you to raise a hand."Anthony seized on it like a drowning man on driftwood, scrambling over on hands and knees, his voice hoarse w
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In the footage, I went to the archive room as usual to check the accounts.The camera caught it clearly, too: when I left the archive room, my hands were empty.And after I'd gone, Karina, in an extravagant gown, slipped into the room, opened the safe, and hurried off with a stack of classified files tucked against her chest.Before she left, she even made a point of wiping away her own fingerprints.The whole hall exploded, murmurs surging up on every side.Karina looked at her own profile, sharp and clear on the screen, and a violent shudder ran through her as she shrilled back, "This is fabricated! You got someone to doctor the footage! Eli, say something, it was you yourself who ruled she was the thief back then!"She whipped her head around toward Eli at the door of the box across the way, desperate for some shred of support.Eli stood frozen where he was.Beneath the silver-gray hair, his features were ashen, his lips opening and closing again and again without a single word comi
Strangers in the End Chapter 9
Not a single guest below dared breathe a word.Every gaze was nailed to the second floor, and no one dared break the quiet.Anthony forced what remained of his arrogance onto his face, pushed aside the bodyguard in front of him, and made a deliberate show of composure, though his trembling fingertips had already betrayed his fear."Layla, don't you forget, it was the Perrone family that raised you. If you kill us, that makes you a traitor all the same.""Kill you?"I laughed softly and stepped slowly forward, looking down on the little group of them.The pistol hung loose at my side, my fingertips idly stroking its cold body, my presence heavy enough that the two of them shrank back on instinct."Oh, I won't kill you. After all, sometimes living hurts far more than dying does.""My patience has limits, Anthony. In front of everyone here, why don't you tell them how you framed me back then."Before the words had faded the crowd was stunned, for that affair three years ago had been the b
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That cry of "Don" was like a thunderclap, bursting through the dead-silent hall.He came on against the light, the hem of his black coat sweeping with each step, the cold white glow tracing the knife-sharp line of his profile.There wasn't a shred of warmth in those deep-set eyes, as though he were looking down on a swarm of ants."Who gave you the nerve to point a gun at my wife?"His voice wasn't loud. It even carried a lazy, offhand ease, yet it bore a suffocating authority that landed heavy on every heart in the room.Anthony's arrogant, mean face froze in an instant, his pupils shuddering violently.He stared fixedly at Leon, lips trembling, staggering two uncontrolled steps before he barely caught his balance."D-Don Thorne?"Anthony's voice was as dry as sandpaper scraping. "You just said... she's your..."Leon didn't look at him, only climbed the stairs at a measured pace.The sound of his leather shoes on the marble struck at Anthony's taut nerves, one beat after another.He c
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"She's lying. She's a con artist with a mouth full of lies!"Karina shouted, beside herself."You're a reject the Perrones threw out. No evidence, no witnesses, just slander made up on the spot." Anthony scoffed. "Why should anyone here believe a word of it?""It doesn't matter if you don't believe me. In the face of absolute power, everyone shuts their mouth.""That's the lesson the two of you taught me all those years ago."I pulled my coat open, revealing a small, finely wrought thorned-rose crest of metal pinned at the breast.It was the token Leon had given me himself, the mark of the Donna of the Thorne family.Anthony's pupils shrank sharply. He lunged forward, and before I could stop him, swung his hand out in a vicious slap.Clang!A crisp, jarring crack split the air.His slap knocked the delicately crafted thorned-rose crest to the floor.The toe of his shoe ground down on it hard, and the intricate rose pattern warped and buckled in an instant, its edges splitting into crac
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