The Divorced Military Queen Awakens (by Sadie Baxter) novel Chapter 629

Chapter 629 Life And Death Ultimatum

Chapter 629 Life And Death Ultimatum

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Gavin darted forward, blocking her path before her toes touched cold marble. “You just woke up. The sedatives are still running through your blood. Give it a moment before you stand,” he urged.

Quinn’s brows knitted tight. Waiting, in this moment, felt unbearable.

She inhaled deeply, shoved Gavin aside with surprising force, and planted both feet firmly. “My question still stands. This ring–does it mean I now command the Whitethorn family?” Her gaze bored into him.

Gavin’s answer came after a long breath. “Yes.”

For the Shadow Guards, allegiance belonged to the ring, not the flesh. They would obey Quinn without a heartbeat of doubt.

Before departing, Julius had seeded the mansion with more of those unseen sentinels.

Quinn advanced, each step deliberate, until she stood nose–to–nose with Fabian. She raised her hand, letting the signet catch the light like a verdict. “Fabian, you answer to me now, too, right? My orders outrank Julius‘, correct?”

Gavin blinked, then realization washed across his face. He finally understood Quinn’s gambit.

Gavin said, “Fabian, Quinn is right. According to family law, her station now eclipses Julius“.”

Beads of sweat gathered along Fabian’s brow. His quick mind knew exactly where this was heading.

“Ma’am, please, I’m only the secretary. Don’t make things hard for me,” Fabian pleaded.

Quinn’s voice rang out, hard as dropped iron. “Fabian Wooley, by the authority of the Whitethorn signet, tell me where Julius went. Where is he meeting his father?”

“Ma’am, I… I truly can’t…”

Suddenly, she seized his throat, thumb pressed against his pulse. “Julius gave me this ring because he knew today could kill him,” she hissed. “I have the strength to face that danger with him. If you let harm reach him by staying silent, I swear I will hunt you to the ends of the

earth.”

Her tone was glacial. Her expression absolute.

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Sweat now streamed down Fabian’s temples in thin, frantic rivulets.

Terror and the instinct to submit tore at him like opposing tides.

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His lips quivered before shaping the answer. “Yarburn. Mr. Whitethorn went to Yarburn.”

Quinn echoed, stunned. “Yarburn?”

“He plans to meet his father there?” she pressed.

“Yes,” Fabian confirmed.

Quinn pursed her lips into a thin line, spun toward the bedside table, and flipped open her laptop. Fingers blurred over the keys.

On screen, a regional map from Jexburgh to Yarburn bloomed into view.

A small, blinking dot pulsed along the highway that stitched the two cities together.

Gavin leaned closer. “What are you looking at?”

“Julius should still have the tracker,” Quinn replied without lifting her eyes.

Only an hour had passed since her blackout, so the blip had yet to reach Yarburn’s outer ring.

On the luminous grid glowing across her laptop, a single pinprick of light slid steadily west, cutting a path toward Yarburn. The display confirmed Fabian had not lied.

“A tracker? You placed one on Julius? Does he even know?” Gavin blurted, eyebrows climbing as though the very word scorched his tongue.

“Of course he doesn’t,” Quinn replied, her voice so level it might have been carved from slate.

Now, in retrospect, she thanked every wandering star that she had not yet confessed the truth —that the innocuous ribbon at his wrist was no keepsake but a beacon. Had she spoken, Julius would have slipped it off before leaving, neat as ever, and vanished beyond her reach.

A heartbeat passed before Quinn folded the computer closed, the click echoing like a starting pistol. “I’m going after Julius,” she said, already rising.

“Ma’am, Mr. Whitethorn ordered you to remain here,” Fabian protested, positioning himself between her and the hall. “Every guard on this estate, every line of the cybersecurity system, is state–of–the–art. They can keep you safe. His father is out there, unpredictable and armed with nothing to lose.”

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“He is my husband. If danger hunts him, I will stand beside him, not cower behind brick and code,” Quinn answered.

“Yes, your skills are legendary. You once subdued Mr. Joaquin himself in Celosia,” Fabian conceded. “But you are pregnant now. The world has changed, and we must guard two lives, not one.”

“Step aside, Fabian, or don’t blame me for what happens next,” Quinn said, the threat in her voice colder than steel fresh from liquid nitrogen.

Of course, she would protect the life growing inside her; she was not reckless, only resolute. She simply could not allow Julius to face Joaquin alone.

Before drifting into that drugged sleep, Julius had whispered in her ear his plan to end the nightmare once and for all.

He meant to confront his father, even if the cost was his own life.

Quinn refused to let him cross that line. No child should carry the memory of patricide, and no man as bright as Julius deserved hands slick with his father’s blood when better solutions existed.

“Even if you overpower me and reach the bedroom door, you will never breach the manor gate,” Fabian warned. “Dozens of guards await outside, all sworn to Mr. Whitethorn’s final orders. You cannot fight the entire phalanx.”

Julius valued nothing in this world more than Quinn’s safety; the household staff knew it as gospel.

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