Chapter 997:

She wouldn’t risk blood on her manicured fingertips when manipulation proved far more elegant. Deploying another’s hands for her schemes was brilliance itself. Her sole error lay in selecting such an incompetent instrument for her plans.

“For your sake, it better be,” Noah’s voice cut through the air like a frozen blade, stripped of even a whisper of human sentiment.

He turned around, each footstep purposeful as he marched toward the exit.

Hailey’s pathetic attempt at self-justification turned his stomach with disgust.

Noah halted at the threshold, his silhouette framed starkly against the doorway.

frigid they dared not even draw

She requires complete home rest. Under no circumstances is

the air—each syllable a precisely aimed dagger that pierced straight to the

villa, his departure absolute,

to linger even a moment longer in that

he matched Noah’s stride, anxiety threading through his voice like a

full arsenal against

still clung to Jack’s spine, an

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eyes had been chillingly real. Had his fingers tightened just a fraction more around Hailey’s throat, they’d be facing catastrophic fallout beyond

reasoning, leaving his actions uncalculated and dangerous. Hailey deserved death, yet her demise couldn’t come now—and certainly

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