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Chapter 267

With a disdainhil Mick of his wilst, Alex hurled Henry's lifeless body aside like a worthless sark of garbage.

Henry's coipse crashed onto the marble floor with a sickening tho, landing heavily at Shane and the others' fest – a brutal, undeniable message to anyone foolish enough to side with Dupon

Henry's glassy eyes stared into the void, frozen in an eternal mask of horror and disbelief.

Even in death, he couldn't comprehend how Alex had dared to strike him down.

His once untouchable states, his inherited power, his self-assured invincibility-all shattered in an instant, exposed as á hollow lie.

A collective gasp echoed through the grand hall, followed by stunned silence.

The onlookers stood paralyzed, disbelief etched on their pale, stricken faces.

They stared numbly at the fallen heir, unable to reconcile this impossible nightmare unfolding before their eyes.

The pride of the city, the golden son of wealth and power, was now nothing more than a corpse discarded on the

Reality shattered into chaos as panicked whispers rapidly swelled into a roar of frantic accusations and disbelief.

"Have you lost your damned mind?! You-you actually murdered Henry?" shrieked

a businessman, eyes bulging in terror as if staring at a demon.

floor.

Alex's act was more than murder-it was a direct assault against power, a commoner daring to slay a king.

It was ruthless, unforgivable, suicidal.

"You absolute lunatic! You've sealed your fate! There's no place in this world you can run to now!" Shane shouted, his voice cracking under sheer panic.

"The Dupont family will bury you alive along with everyone you've ever cared for!"

in panic-driven hysteria, each threat

own Chicago! They've got the mafia, the gangs-you're now marked by every

Even gods and demons won't

clamor, Alex stood unshaken, his

Henry Dupont. Remember that clearly. Don't provoke me, and

fate."

din, his eyes burning with

deranged! You'll regret this

"Regret is for cowards. If the

mocking laugh sliced through the turmoil-Kelly Kingston stepped

him. Side with Dupont if you

grabbed Alex by the arm, both turning their backs on the pale-faced elites. Stunned silence hung heavily as their

war," whispered one man gravely, and murmurs of

officially ignited between

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walked out into the night, "are yet truly prepared for this

vultures thought they could bully us into submission. If we'd let their step on us

twinkling city lights, Kelly added sharply, “Dupont will undoubtedly stir trouble in

who exactly are we?" Alex raised

her voice a fierce

backing, we hold absolute powera

would've exterminated already not for his concern for national stability. Let's clean out this festering infection together." "Fair enough," Alex laughed softly, his tension dissolving beneath the starlit sky. They lingered there, confident and defiant, ready

the banquet hall, panic spiraled uncontrollably. "Quick inform the Dupont family! That maniac

within Chicago's shadowed

smugly addressing the four

seized control of

won't just be a

the other lords

the poorest state, Vancouver, I've heard they're under

right," another lord

let alone Vermont. Speaking of which, what exactly did Jericho

across another lord's face. "Jericho's hiding something shameful-he's kept

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