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Chapter 231
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Elena took a single step closer.Roman’s face flickered through her mind. Jace’s relief. The life she had built piece by piece after escaping this man.“You already don’t exist in my world,” she said gently. “You’re just noise now.”That was the final blow.Marcus screamed and pulled the trigger…And the sound that followed wasn’t a gunshot.It was boots.Shouts.Glass shattering as the walls of Marcus’s illusion finally collapsed.Roman’s men stormed in from every direction, weapons trained, voices sharp and commanding.“DROP IT!”Marcus spun, panic overtaking rage, gun wavering between Elena and the door.Elena didn’t flinch.She held his gaze one last time.“This is where it ends,” she said. “Not together.”Marcus looked at her. And in her eyes, he saw it.Not love.Not regret.Closure.His hand fell.The gun hit the floor with a hollow clatter.Marcus dropped to his knees, the Phantom Wolf finally stripped down to a man who had built his entire existence around someone who had alr
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Marcus stared at her, rage and grief and longing colliding until none of it made sense anymore.“Choose,” he said again, weaker now. “Me. Or him.”Elena met his eyes.“I choose,” she said, each word deliberate, “to end this.”Marcus’s face twisted, the last threads of control unraveling as the truth finally reached him. That no matter how tight his grip on the detonator was… He had already lost her.Marcus didn’t know the clock had started running against him.Elena stood perfectly still, every breath measured, every expression carefully chosen. To him, it looked like hesitation. Like conflict. Like a woman cornered into making the hardest decision of her life.In truth, she was buying time.Miles away, Roman was already moving.The door to the locked room exploded inward with controlled force, Roman’s men flooding in before the sound could finish echoing. Jace barely had time to look up before hands were on him, steady and firm, cutting restraints, dragging him away from the center o
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Something in Marcus finally broke.Not loudly at first. Not all at once.It cracked.“You still talk like that,” he said, a tremor slipping into his voice despite his effort to steady it. “Like you’ve rewritten the past just because it’s inconvenient now.”Elena didn’t move. She didn’t soften. That restraint did more damage than anger ever could.“I didn’t rewrite anything,” she said calmly. “I chose it.”That did it.Marcus laughed, sharp and fractured, dragging a hand through his hair as he turned away, pacing like the walls had suddenly closed in on him.“Chose it?,” he repeated bitterly. “You say that like I was the enemy.”He spun back to her, eyes blazing now, control unraveling thread by thread.“I was the one who kept you alive,” he snapped. “When you were nothing. When the world wanted to swallow you whole. I was there.”Elena’s voice stayed level. “You were there because you needed me dependent.”“No,” Marcus roared, slamming his fist into the wall hard enough to make the li
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Roman’s breath went shallow. “Elena…”Marcus’s voice sharpened. “I save you. That’s the point. I give you a way out. I always have.”Elena’s eyes opened, cold and steady. “You’re not saving me. You’re proving you never knew me.”A pause.“You always did this,” Marcus said. “Turned my worst instincts into villains so you didn’t have to face what we were.”“We were never ‘we,’” Elena replied. “You were possession pretending to be love.”Roman took her hand, squeezing once. Not to stop her. To anchor her.“Elena,” he said quietly, “we can do this together.”She looked at him, and the moment held everything they didn’t need to say. Then she turned back to the call.“I’ll come,” Elena said. “You’ll release Jace first.”Marcus smiled into the line. She could hear it. “No. You come. I show you. You disarm it. He walks.”“And if you lie?”“I don’t lie about exits,” Marcus said. “I build them.”Elena ended the call.For a beat, no one spoke.Roman’s voice broke the silence, controlled fury und
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Marcus’s jaw flexed. “Roman Thorne bleeds like anyone else.”“Maybe,” Jace said. “But he doesn’t burn down alone.”Marcus stepped closer, anger bleeding through the composure now. “You think you’re warning me?”“I am,” Jace said. “Because whatever you think this is, whatever fantasy you’ve built where she comes back to you…”He met Marcus’s gaze without flinching.“…it ends the moment Roman walks into the room.”Marcus’s laugh returned, thinner this time. “You really believe he scares me?”“I believe,” Jace said evenly, “that men like you only feel brave until the war stops being one sided.”Marcus stared at him, something calculating churning behind his eyes.“You were never supposed to grow a spine,” he said. “You were supposed to stay small.”Jace exhaled slowly. “That’s where you fucked up.”Marcus straightened, smoothing his jacket, the assassin sliding back over the cracks in his rage.“Enjoy your courage while you have it,” he said. “You’ve already served your purpose.”He turn
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Meanwhile, time had stopped meaning anything.Elena leaned back against the desk, bare skin warm against cool glass, Roman’s hands moving over her like he was relearning her all over again.They’d been at it for hours. Screens dimmed. Systems paused mid process. A rare truce between urgency and want.“This isn’t a break,” Elena murmured, breathless.Roman smiled against her shoulder. “It’s maintenance.”She laughed softly before the sound dissolved into something lower, something unguarded.They moved together without thinking, drifting from the chair to the couch, then further, pressed against walls that had heard more secrets than confessions ever could.Nothing else existed.Just heat.Just closeness.Just the illusion that the world could wait.Roman’s forehead rested against hers, their breathing uneven, hands still tracing familiar paths as if grounding each other.And then...Beep.Sharp. Artificial. Out of place.Elena froze.Another beep followed, more insistent this time, sl
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