1426 BONUS

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!"

panic-driven hysteria, each threat sharper than the

gangs-you're now marked by every thug and brute in this damned

Dupont blood? Even gods and demons won't shelter you

unshaken, his

kill Henry Dupont. Remember that clearly. Don't provoke me, and you'll remain alive. Cross

fate."

the din, his eyes burning with rage and

deranged! You'll regret this until your

If the Duponts hunger for

mocking laugh sliced through the turmoil-Kelly Kingston stepped forward

beside him. Side with Dupont

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

whispered one man gravely, and murmurs of

officially ignited

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"are yet truly prepared for this storm?" Absolutely," she answered flercely, eyes

vultures thought they could bully us into submission. If we'd let their step on us now, they'd never siap grinding us into the

food truck illuminated by twinkling city lights, Kelly added sharply,

who exactly are we?" Alex raised

conspiratorially, her voice

we hold

merely vermin the King 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

the banquet hall, panic spiraled uncontrollably. "Quick inform the

within Chicago's shadowed council

four influential

already seized control of Vermont's underworld," Conrad proclaimed

me. With your influence added to the mix, Vermont won't just be a territory — it'll be a feast. A fat, ripe prize we

the

isn't some pushover. Even though they started from the poorest state, Vancouver, I've heard they're under the

right," another lord

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

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

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