Chapter 548

Briony stared out the window as the sky loomed overhead, heavy and oppressive, like a black hole caving in on the world.

From her phone, the howl of wind cut through the silence.

A man's trembling voice, thick with tears, came through the speaker again. “Bryn, I'm sorry. Meeting me in this life has only brought you pain. If there's another life after this, don't let us cross paths again."

Briony's grip tightened around her daughter.

She said nothing.

Carl clung to the steering wheel, his eyes rimmed red.

Crystal held up the phone, uncertain what to do.

Even she could sense something was terribly wrong-how could Briony not know?

Yet Briony remained silent.

Stewart's voice came again, rough with emotion. "Bryn, I left a few things for the kids at Southcreek Manor. In the years ahead, I'm counting on you. Please, on their birthdays, take them there to collect what's theirs."

At the mention of the children, Briony finally replied, her answer soft and even: "Alright."

Just one quiet word, but it made Carl's tears fall silently down his face.

"Bryn," Stewart's voice was almost lost in the wind, "do you still blame me?"

Briony's lashes fluttered.

moment, the call

Crack-

and rain

battered the car

The light turned green.

gas, and the Maybach

the phone disappeared back into

in her mother's arms, sobbing, her

was so unlike her a sign, perhaps, of something

her daughter close,

Mario leaned quietly

into her embrace as well, pressing a kiss to his soft

sealed car blocked out the raging storm-and the distant,

at the long-abandoned pier, a violent blast had erupted

torn to shreds by the roar, reduced to twisted wreckage

Nothing survived.

a man watched through binoculars, a satisfied

see Stewart obliterated, wiped from the earth without a trace-it was a sight he'd waited years for, one

dramatic as he'd hoped. He was

Maybach rolled into Skybreeze

the ground, thunder growling overhead, the night as dark

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