Chapter 1426

Bernard’s hand moved with lightning speed, the gun in his grip barking death as he dropped a goon in black with a single shot.

Just as he was about to pivot and target another, red laser dots danced across Eleanor’s body.

At the same moment, the gun in the hand of the black-clad assailant pressed coldly against Eleanor’s temple.

“Mr. Law.”

Three controllers, cradling their rifles, emerged slowly from the panic room within the safehouse.

“The terms laid out by Sector 2-5, Mr. Law. Comply, and your wife goes free. Otherwise…”

One of the controllers hadn’t even finished speaking when the goon pushed the gun harder against Eleanor’s head.

“Don’t hurt her!”

Bernard’s heart raced with fear at the mere posturing of the thug. It was clear now that his concern for Eleanor surpassed even his own life.

Even the slightest scratch on her, and he would be beside himself with anxiety.

me, leave her out

desperation. The leverage they held was Eleanor’s life, and

spare her, but you have to atone with your own life, in

gazed at Bernard’s

be a fool.” He’d been hurt too many times for her.

love and concern that shone in Eleanor’s clear eyes warmed Bernard’s heart.

After soothing Eleanor’s fears, he shifted his intense gaze

I won’t be your sacrificial lamb.”

in the wilds of Montana, or when Bernard himself had Josef Caporal thrown in jail to be taught a harsh lesson. But since he had taken over, he had never allowed the senseless slaughter of others, certainly nothing as brutal as Area Opaca’s bio-engineered

the Syndicate’s guilt, but not to the extent that it

Syndicate’s leader, he knew

fire a shot in penance, then you let her

it on himself, and

Bang-

the corridor, shattering the silence of the safehouse and

her head as she looked on, dazed, at the man standing tall despite the bullet wound.

long delay, her vision blurred with tears as she saw the crimson blood flowing down his shoulder, soaking his pristine white

hammered

“Bernard!”

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