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CHAPTER 103: Blood and Glass

Author: Vee Okon
last update Last Updated: 2025-09-30 17:24:11

Jace’s POV

The house was too quiet for a mansion that had just been torn apart. Too still for a place that had echoed hours earlier with shouting, alarms, and sounds of joy. The silence now was not peace; it was heavy, suffocating, like smoke after a fire. It pressed against my chest harder than the sirens, harder than the chaos of broken doors and overturned furniture.

Investigators were scattered through the rooms. Their gloved hands brushed over shattered safes, dusted locks with fine black powder, and snapped photos of broken glass that still glittered on the floor like spilled diamonds. The click of their cameras was the only sound that dared break the silence, and even that felt too loud.

My father stood near the staircase, his arms folded tightly across his chest. His face was unreadable, carved into that same calm mask he always wore when the world tried to shake him. But I knew him. The mask wasn’t strong; it was heavy. And the weight sitting on his shoulders now was crushing
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