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Chapter 191: The Rotting Crown
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2025-12-23 22:01:13The interior of the stolen V-22 Osprey smelled of ozone, hydraulic fluid, and the distinct, copper-sweet scent of cooking meat.
It was Jack Sterling.
Jack lay strapped to the cargo floor, his body convulsing against the nylon webbing. The roar of the tilt-rotors outside was deafening, a constant mechanical scream that vibrated through the metal deck plates, but for Catherine, the loudest sound in the world was the wet, rattling gasp tearing through her husband’s throat.
"Temperature is rising! Forty-one point five... forty-one point eight!" Robert Sterling’s voice cracked, betraying a panic the former head of the Sterling family had never shown in boardrooms. He was kneeling beside Jack, his expensive suit ruined by grease and blood, his hands trembling as he tried to insert an IV line into Jack’s left arm. "I can't find a vein. The blood... it’s too thick. It’s coagulating instantly."
"Jack? Jack, look at me." Catherine was
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