Novel & Cerita The Ultimate Punishment

I had kept it intact on purpose, like a lamp kept burning for a reason you've stopped letting yourself examine. The man who crossed the hall toward me had that face. But whatever had always lived behind it — the part I had kept the lamp burning for — was gone. "Get up, Vera." His voice was flat. "Today is your judgment day." Two Black Guard rushed forward without hesitation. They grabbed my arms and hauled me to the platform. "I'm sick—" I started. "Sick." He cut me off. "You're sick because ten years of guilt has been eating you alive."

Jace asked, a frown on his face, did he mean. "It is the punishment we reserve for the worst offenders," Damon said as he looked all of them in the eye, ensuring they understood the severity of the punishment. "When a member of the authority breaks our strictest laws, or they betray the authority, we burn them alive. When we said we would punish transgressors that break the accords, we weren't kidding" he said.

“It’s Phase Four. He embedded it in Helena’s chip… deep, like it wasn’t meant to be found unless someone bled for it.” Josh stepped forward, jaw tight. “What does it do?” Isabelle looked at them, voice cracking with the weight of realization. “It bypasses every firewall we know. Global comms, military command chains, satellite positioning—if he triggers this, it’s all gone. Silence. Everywhere.” Philip’s face hardened. “No backup channels. No failsafes. Total isolation.” Josh folded his arms, grim. “It forces surrender. No resistance, no negotiations. The world either bends to his protocol—or tears itself apart.”

I struggled on the wet ground but the pain wouldn't stop. "All you'll experience is pure torture Leona but in the end, you're gonna work for me than before and if you get arrested, I Yolando Suarez will never come to your rescue. You'll rot in jail and that will be your end. No one messes with me!" With that, he gave me a long press of the electric shocker. I began to convulse wildly like someone who was having a seizure. "No..no..." I whispered breathlessly. "NO! NOOOOOOOOOO!" I SHOT UP FROM THE BED! I was sweating as if a bucket of water has been dumped on me.

Four hours and forty minutes until dawn. I walked to the table and looked at the remaining files we still held. The older conversations between Varek and Roric. The photographs. The note that had started this final countdown. Varek had built his last trap so that every available door led to damage. The only question left was whose damage would be greater. My phone vibrated once. A new message from the unknown number that had guided us all night. The second drop is not where they are looking. You still have a choice. Destroy the shed files now and the code arrives in the next ten minutes. Refuse and the journalists get everything at 6:00 a.m. exactly. This is the last offer.

“Welcome to consequences, princesa.” “She should be punished forever plus tax,” Al said immediately. Gabby gasped. “FOREVER?” “Plus tax.” “That’s illegal!” “You poured water on my pants!” “For science!” “Science crime!” I pressed two fingers to my temple. “Dios mío.” “Forever is too long.” Rafael, the bastard who had apparently discovered a new calling as a preschool mediator, said it casually. Al looked at the rearview mirror. “Why?” “Because a punishment that never ends eventually stops teaching anything. After a certain point, it’s just revenge.”

After my older sister, Elise Sterling, is supposedly imprisoned for financial crimes, I become the target of retaliation from her enemies. I can't find a job and live under constant threats. Almost every morning, I find garbage left outside my door. At night, I come home to find my front door splattered with red paint, imitating blood. I break down and fall into depression. Over the next five years, I make three attempts to end my life. The last time, as I lay there after emptying the entire bottle of sleeping pills down my throat, waiting for everything to end, I suddenly hear my sister's frantic voice. "I only wanted to punish Leon! Why did you take it this far?" Her godbrother,

he finishes. This man is sick. When did this happen? He's delusional. He's a murderer. "I love you baby girl, but I can't have you stand in my way." His claws come out and he raises his hand high in the air. I close my eyes and just picture all the good things in my life and wait. There's no way I can beat him. He's too powerful. I wait and open my eyes when I hear a loud groan. I look and see Pierson on top of him.

He smirked devilishly and held the bracelet before pulling it off harshly causing it to break. My eyes widened when I saw it broken. "Now, you want it still huh?" He smirked and throw it through the tall grass, I didn't even saw where it fell. I felt that pang on my chest, it's heavy... And it's hurting too much. My sight started to blur when tears filled my eyes, but I immediately wiped it off, memories of myself with my family back then came flashing to my mind as if it only happened yesterday. But my parents died five years ago already.

He spat, "Ungrateful brat!" He screamed in anger and attempted to force his way inside, but security held him back. "I want to see Lucas and Candice! I gave this company 18 years of my life. They can't fire me just like that!" The doors slowly opened as Lucas and I appeared. I said, "Zayn, Yvonne, in your 18 years here, you've accepted bribes and embezzled 100 million dollars using your positions." I threw a file at their feet and said, "The authorities are already involved. You'll spend the rest of your lives in prison."