Chapter 129

Jason was too shocked to process what was happening. His mouth opened, but no words came out as he turned pale under the weight of the situation. Jasmine's sharp eyes scanned the room, her voice cutting through the tense air.

"Does anyone here still fear the Drakes more than the Kingstons? she asked, her words slow and deliberate, carrying a chilling undertone.

"Speak now. So I could teach you."

The crowd remained silent, stunned into submission.

Jasmine tilted her head, her cold smile sending a shiver through everyone. "Did you think the Kingston family has been kind for so long because we lack claws? Think again."

Jason's smartwatch buzzed loudly, snapping him out of his daze.

Fumbling, he turned it on, only to hear a panicked voice on the other end.

"Husband! What's happening to us?"

"What? What do you mean?" Jason stammered, confusion clouding his face.

"Our bank accounts are frozen! The stocks are plummeting! Lenders are demanding payments, and the police are at our doorstep-something about the boys being involved in criminal activity!"

"What?!" Jason's voice cracked, his mind spiraling into chaos. "That's impossible!" Reality crashed down on him like a tidal wave.

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He had chosen to align with Jasper Drake, believing Jasmine Kingston incapable of leading with her late father Alfred's ruthlessness.

He thought siding with the Drakes would secure his place in the city's hierarchy.

But now, the truth was undeniable: Jasmine Kingston wasn't just capable-she was far more powerful and unforgiving than her father ever was.

Across the room, whispers spread like wildfire.

The people in attendance began to realize that Kingston, not Drake, was the true ruler of Vancouver.

Harlan Drake had only ever been a pretender, wielding intimidation, while Jasmine carried the iron will of a monarch

his knees, his whole body trembling as

gaze didn't

calmly,

Jason, she turned her attention back to the

voice softened, but the menace behind it was unmistakable. "And to anyone who has chosen to side with the Drakes, let me make myself clear-leave this hall, and I

the air like a death

who had already planned to leave froze,

clearly didn't want to

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smile widened slightly, a predator

added sweetly.

of her

was dragged out of the hall, kicking

of a queen swatting away an insect.

and the Kingstons, there had never been a choice.

General like a lead blanket, the rain driving against the windows in a merciless,

scent of blood. The hush that swallowed the halls felt alive, ready to lash

his lower half obscured beneath thick, bloodied

each shallow breath rasped in

a jagged scar cutting across his cheek and a serpent coiling around his neck in ink. In Vancouver's dark underbelly,

boots on gravel, "what's the

danger, but the injury to his genitals-" He swallowed hard,

like a

Harlan's features, his eyes feral. He took

spat from his mouth, echoing along the

could," the doctor managed, voice trembling at the edges. "The damage was catastrophic. Just keeping him

life?" Harlan roared, seizing the doctor by the collar with

My son-my heir-crippled on your watch. You fix this, or God help you,

"Sir, there's nothing more-

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aside in disgust, his breathing

hummed, and for an instant,

pause, only Jasper's labored breaths and the drumbeat of

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