Chapter 31

The club smelled of smoke, oil, and blood. Not literal blood this time but the weight of it pressed down on everyone, thick as the tension that rippled through the room. Ghost leaned against the bar, gripping a half-empty bottle, his eyes scanning the brothers with a precision that felt sharper than any blade. He noticed how they shifted under Viper’s gaze, how their laughter faltered mid-word, how even the youngest patches of Serpent tattoos seemed to curl tighter against their skin. The club wasn’t just uneasy, it was scared. And it was scared because Viper wanted it that way.Ghost’s hand tightened around the bottle, knuckles white. He could see the change in himself the anger, the impatience, the gnawing uncertainty gnawing at his gut. Luca had returned, alive against all odds, but now he was the mark, the scapegoat. And somehow, Viper had spun it so convincingly that even the brothers who’d once called Luca family were questioning him.Troy cleared his throat beside Ghost, he

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Chapter 32

Dawn broke over the club like an unwelcome warning. Pale light slipped through the cracked windows of the garage, illuminating the dust motes that danced lazily above the blood-stained concrete. Ghost stood by the entrance, arms crossed, watching the empty streets. The city outside seemed indifferent, unaware of the chaos inside the Serpents’ walls. But inside, the air was heavy with suspicion, fear, and anger. Luca moved silently beside him, his expression unreadable. Every line of his body spoke caution, every glance betrayed calculation. He was wounded, bruised, and exhausted, but he carried himself like a predator stalking prey. Ghost could see it in him, the same relentless drive that had kept him alive all these years.“We can’t wait,” Luca said, voice low, almost a whisper, yet cutting through the quiet like a blade. “Viper’s already moving. Every minute we delay, more brothers die, and the club fractures further. He’s already got them questioning loyalty, pitting one brot

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Chapter 33

Ghost’s POVThe first light of morning had barely reached the compound when I finally moved away from the garage door.I had spent most of the night standing there, staring at the road while the events of the previous day replayed in my head. The ambush. The brothers we had lost. Luca beside me, covered in blood and exhaustion but still thinking clearly enough to see what I had refused to see for too long.Viper was behind this.I had known it before, somewhere beneath the loyalty and the memories and every excuse I had made for the man I once called my brother. The difference now was that I could no longer pretend I hadn't seen the cracks.Luca was sitting at the table inside the garage, studying the notes we had collected the previous day. He looked tired. The bruises along his jaw had darkened overnight, and there was a faint stiffness in the way he moved whenever he shifted in his chair.Yet he was still working, so I walked toward him and placed a cup of coffee on the table.“You

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Chapter 34

Luca’s POVBy afternoon, the clubhouse had settled into an uneasy kind of silence.It was not the peaceful silence that came after a long night or the comfortable quiet of brothers who had nothing left to say. This was different. Every conversation seemed to stop whenever someone unfamiliar walked into the room, and every glance lasted a little longer than it should have. The Serpents were watching one another now, measuring every movement and weighing every word because nobody knew where the next betrayal would come from.I had lived through that kind of fear before.Two years ago, I had watched a group of men who had once trusted one another turn into strangers because one person had given them a reason to doubt each other. I had learned then that betrayal did not begin with a gunshot. It began with a whisper, followed by another, until the truth became so buried beneath suspicion that nobody knew what to believe anymore.Viper understood that better than anyone, that was what mad

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Lahat ng Kabanata ng Guarded by the outlaw : Kabanata 31 - Kabanata 34

Chapter 31

Chapter 32

Chapter 33

Chapter 34