Chapter 21 - A Terrifying Shadow Lingers Just Beyond The Garden
“The boy was never your son’s true choice, Alexander... we placed him in your path to claim the entire empire,” the voice hissed.
Before Alexander could pull the trigger, a heavy smoke grenade rolled out from the secret passageway, flooding the hall.
Thick white smoke billowed upward, obscuring the hallway lights as alarms wailed piercingly through the sprawling estate.
Alexander coughed, dropping low to the floor as he crawled frantically toward the master bedroom to protect Clara and Noah.
He kicked the bedroom door open, but the room was completely empty, the windows shattered outward into the cool night air.
On the white silk sheets lay little Noah’s favorite teddy bear, resting beside a single, freshly plucked white rose.
Alexander ran out onto the balcony, staring down into the sprawling, fog-drenched gardens below the mansion cliffside.
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A sleek black helicopter rose silently into the stormy New York sky, its navigation lights blinking mockingly in the distance.
Clara and Noah were gone, swallowed up by the very shadows Alexander thought he had conquered forever.
