Semua Bab Don't Stop, Daddy: Bab 121 - Bab 130

Sierra’s pulse thundered in her ears as the basement settled into an uneasy silence. The metallic click of the door closing behind them still reverberated in her chest, a chilling reminder that there was no escape. Every shadow seemed heavier now, every sound amplified, every breath a countdown.Her mother pressed a trembling hand to hers. “Stay close, Sierra. Whatever happens, we face this together.”Sierra nodded, swallowing the lump in her throat. She had never felt so small and so exposed, yet so determined. Every fiber of her being screamed to protect her mother, to act, to do something but the weight of Damien’s presence still pressed down, unseen but impossible to ignore.The woman from the shadows stepped forward, placing herself slightly ahead. “I know you think you understand him,” she said softly, voice steady despite the tension, “but you don’t. Not fully. He’s… precise. Calculating. And he’s already three steps ahead of you.”Sierra’s jaw tightened. “Then what do we do? H

The basement felt smaller now, oppressive, each shadow heavy with anticipation. Sierra’s chest ached as adrenaline coursed through her veins. Her hands were still locked with her mother’s, the only tether grounding her amidst the suffocating tension.Damien’s green eyes didn’t waver. Every muscle in his body radiated calm control, yet there was an unspoken threat in his presence, a quiet warning that at any moment, the balance could shatter.“You understand the stakes now,” he said softly, voice even but impossible to ignore. “You’ve seen the path, and you’ve glimpsed the consequences. But now… the choice is yours.”Sierra’s pulse quickened. Her stomach knotted with fear and resolve. “Choice?” she whispered, almost to herself. “What choice?”Damien stepped closer, his shadow falling over them like a storm. “Do you align with me, embrace the truth as I see it, or do you resist and watch everything you love crumble?”Her mother’s fingers tightened around hers. “Sierra… listen carefully.

The slow, deliberate footsteps echoed against the basement walls, each one slicing through the silence like a blade. Sierra’s breath caught in her throat. Her hand tightened instinctively around her mother’s. The air grew colder, heavier, as though the room itself understood the danger walking toward them.Damien didn’t move. He didn’t even look surprised. His posture remained relaxed, almost eerily still, as if he had been waiting for this exact moment.“Ah,” he murmured, eyes glinting. “Right on time.”Sierra stiffened.Right on time?Her pulse stuttered. Whoever……whatever…...was approaching… Damien expected it.Her mother leaned in close, her voice barely a whisper, trembling but focused.“Sierra… stay behind me. Don’t move unless I tell you.”Sierra tried to obey, but her feet felt as if they were glued to the cold cement floor. Her thoughts raced, colliding and scattering with every echoing footstep. She couldn’t see the figure yet, only the shifting silhouette emerging from the

Lila didn’t even have time to turn.One second she stood rigid beside Damien, her face drawn tight with old wounds and new confusion, and the next, the tall man seized her arm like a hook catching cloth, yanking her backward so hard her feet skidded across the concrete.Lila gasped, choking on surprise as her shoulder wrenched.“Let……let go!”Her voice cracked into a raw, startled scream…..“Sierra!”Sierra’s heart split open.She lunged forward on instinct, but Damien lifted a single hand, not touching her, not threatening her, just raising it and something in the cold stillness of the gesture froze her in place. It was like hitting a wall of ice.“Do not move,” Damien said softly.His voice wasn’t loud. It didn’t need to be.It carried a kind of terrifying finality that Sierra felt in her spine.Lila was pulled closer to him not toward safety, not toward comfort, but toward a man who didn’t even blink.Damien watched her being dragged with the same expression he might use while obse

The basement was pure chaos.Darkness swallowed everything, thick and suffocating. Sierra’s heart pounded so hard she thought it might tear through her ribs. Her ears rang with the sound of shuffling feet, a thump of something heavy hitting the floor, and the ragged breaths of everyone around her.Then she heard it, a whisper, tight and urgent, trembling with both fear and determination.“Run.”Sierra froze. The word was simple, yet it exploded in her chest like a gunshot. Her mind scrambled to find its source, her instincts flaring in panic.It was Lila.Lila’s small, trembling voice came again, barely audible above the din.“Run, Sierra… now!”Sierra’s eyes shot into the black. Her hands fumbled blindly until they found Lila’s. The moment she touched her sister, the trembling intensified, both of them clinging to the only certainty they had in the dark.Vivian’s sobs came next, desperate and ragged.“Don’t leave me… don’t…”Sierra grasped her mother’s hand, but Lila tugged her insis