The Almighty Dominance

“Lidia!” Beatrice shouted. "How can you even call yourself a mother? Your daughter is out of control."

"You've failed-utterly failed. You're a disgrace as a mother; you should be ashamed."

Lidia turned on her. "Beatrice, I'll warn you only once. Bella is Jericho's daughter. She already carries the authority of the Kane family and the governor himself."

"If she decides to kill me, no one will stop her. So you'd better make damn sure the doctor you brought here saves Jericho-he's the only one who can keep Bella under control."

Beatrice's face twisted in outrage.

"I'm trying to do what's best for my brother! How dare you let her threaten me? I should teach my niece how to show respect to her aunt!" She spun on her heel to storm out.

A Kane guard raised his pistol and fired.

The shot cracked, and Beatrice screamed as the bullet tore into her leg. Blood gushed down her skirt, pooling on the floor.

"Holy God! You shot me?!" Beatrice wailed, clutching her leg.

"You're dead! Do you hear me? You're all dead!" Never in her life had anyone dared to threaten her like this.

The guard's voice was cold. "Miss Bella has given the order. No one leaves until Master Kane wakes up. If he dies, every last one of you dies with him."

"This is insane!" one of the junior doctors barked, his face pale. "I don't care what you do—I'm leaving!"

He made a move toward the door.

The guard didn't hesitate. One shot to the head.

The man dropped lifeless to the floor. The room froze in horror.

"Now he can leave," the guard captain said with chilling calm.

He gestured, and two guards dragged the corpse out by the arms, the body leaving a smear of blood across the marble.

"Only a dead man passes this door. Anyone else want to try?"

All eyes turned, one by one, to Doctor Kevin. The air was thick with fear.

Beatrice hissed, "You'd better cure Jericho Kane. Our lives are in your hands." Kevin's lips trembled. "I-I want out. But, I don't think I can cure Governor Kane." The guard captain stepped forward, pressing the barrel of his gun against Kevin's temple.

"Doctor, don't forget-you stole this chance from Mister Alex. You swore you could heal our master. You'd better do it... or I'll blow your head off."

Kevin's face blanched, his knees shaking.

"I... I am a professor at Oxford. You can't kill me," he stammered, clinging to the title as if it could save him.

you can't heal my master," the guard growled, shoving the barrel harder against his temple, "then you're already a corpse. One bullet, one body

heal him now!" Beatrice

twisted in anger. "That wasn't our

want to die here? Heal him now!

in

"There's no time for that.

his medical team. "Check his vitals. Run the

scrambled, drawing blood, checking monitors, their hands

results, his face draining of

this can't be

be real?"

Kevin muttered,

shifts every thirty minutes. It mutates into

ever heard of such a thing in

one

and the

sweat pouring down his temples. “Beatrice... I can't do this anymore.

coat. "Do your damn job! Our lives depend on

made to kill without mercy. It was designed to be

the legend its name whispered like a curse. This is that

"You're a professor at Oxford! Even that slum doctor

His voice thundered through

compare me to that lowlife! I came here because you promised me fifty million dollars-not to cure Jericho, but to sabotage

you'd pay me whether I healed him or not-that was our agreement! You also said if Master Kane dies, you'll seize control of the Kane family and take the governor's seat for yourself!"

words hit the room like

Lidia's voice cracked, her body shaking as

with

scream. "You... you and Kevin! I

conspire to kill my

her words cutting like

and drove out that young

put this on us-this disaster is

the risk, dann

s

Lidia demanded, her voice

hands up, her composure

called me? That if I

was to block some so-called miracle doctor-make sure no one with the title 'God's Hand'

never told me that. You never said a damn word about Kingston and

raced. Memories