The Almighty Dominance

Chapter 209

Jessica slammed her hand down on the polished oak table, Her voice echoing through the wide foyer.

"Enough of this!" She glared at Alex, her eyes wild with desperation.

"Hand over the antidote, Alex! We'll count this as our loss, but I won't let Charles die. Not like this."

Alex paused only for a split second, hatred etched into every rigid line of his jaw.

Then he turned away without a word and strode out the grand entrance, his boots pounding hard against the marble floor.

The echo lingered, mocking Jessica's plea.

Jessica's heart sank. She could see it clearly: Alex had no intention of saving Charles.

Charles clutched his side, trembling as unbearable pain crawled through his veins.

Sweat poured down his temples, his face a mask of pure agony.

"I'm sorry!" he shouted, his voice shaking as he fought to stay upright. "Please... just give me the antidote, I swear I won't ever cross your path again!"

His pride-once unshakeable-had shattered under the threat of death.

It took everything in him to spit those words out, to humble himself before someone he'd always treated as beneath him.

But Alex was long gone.

Jasmine stood still, her posture poised, her gaze a bladed edge slicing the thick tension.

Alex just whispered to her,

"In a world that devours the soft-hearted, kindness becomes a liability, and mercy a fatal flaw."

Jessica's eyes snapped to her.

"Jasmine," she yelled, "Give your brother the antidote-now."

Jasmine folded her arms, her sigh carrying a lifetime's worth of frustration.

"Must you always defend Charles, Mother? Even now, when he's the one trying to destroy me?"

Jessica's restraint frayed. "Stop it!" she hissed, turning on her daughter. "He is your brother!"

demanded, "if you had to choose between me

voice trembled as she tried to keep

no choice to make. You are both my children. I refuse to lose

Jasmine's lips. "Funny how you say that, yet every time Charles waves a knife my way, you stay silent. The

watched them, his face ashen, his breath jagged. "Jasmine," he croaked, "I-I never

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him, eyes unyielding. "Spare me the pathetic lies. I might be a 'mere woman' in your eyes,

throat, trying to summon authority

what... what do you want?" she asked. It came out quieter than

But if he ever tries to hurt me again, if I

His voice shook with rage and pain. "You... you're

antidote that Alex had secretly slipped her on his way out. Threatening you?

cracked through the tension, raw

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If he dies, can you live with that

bear the thought of murdering me, then mine can just as easily bear the price of returning the favor."

"Enough!" Jessica stopped it.

the cost of picking a fight you couldn't finish. Next time, I won't waste mercy. And you," she snapped, turning to her mother with fire in her eyes, "you should've stood between us before Charles tried to put me in a

bristled. "He is your brother," she

the receiving end, and you're howling in outrage.

Jessica growled,

authority to crush this insolence, but she knew the

her tone that she didn't

gaze, unblinking. "Only if Charles kneels and apologizes.

flashed with

violent shudder, he sank to

bone on marble echoed around them. He gritted his teeth,

nausea and pounding

cold, deathly

prepared for the consequences, sister?" he spat, voice low and venomous. “Because when I stand

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him with terrifying calm. "Do it, then. Look at the floor

your feet.

every nerve in his

warred with survival inside

a moment's hesitation, he bowed