Rise Of A Shattered Luna (Natalie) by Kave Derry novel Chapter 234

Duality

Chapter 234 The Alpha’s Duality

Baron’s POV

The air in the basement was thick, a scent of rusted iron, and the metallic tang of fresh blood.

It was a scent I was intimately familiar with.

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On the chair in the center of the room, the man one of the low–level facilitators who had helped Jace vanish, slumped forward, his breathing ragged.

He was broken, though he hadn’t realized it yet.

The man’s wrists were bound tightly to the steel arms of the chair, the restraints cutting angry red grooves into his skin.

Sweat dripped from his jaw in uneven drops, hitting the concrete floor.

“You think staying silent will save you?” I asked calmly.

The prisoner shook violently. “I already told you everything I know!”

“No.” I stepped closer, my boots scraping against the floor. “You told me enough to keep yourself breathing for another ten minutes.”

A tray of metal tools rested beside me beneath the fluorescent light.

The silver instruments gleamed coldly.

One of the guards shifted uneasily near the wall.

Raze was restless beneath my skin.

My children had been shoved into a filthy van like prey.

The thought alone made violence feel reasonable.

I crouched in front of the prisoner slowly, lowering myself until we were eye level.

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“You moved through the docks,” I said quietly. “You arranged burner phones. Safehouses. Vehicles. Routes out of the pack.”

The man trembled harder.

“I–I didn’t harm the kids!”

“But you took them from my villa.”

My voice remained level, which only made the terror in his eyes worsen.

“I’m going to ask one final time,” I continued. “Who is the boss?”

The prisoner’s lips parted soundlessly.

Then my phone vibrated.

2:59 pm Pppp.

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Natalie

I stepped back from the shadow of the interrogation chair. “What happened?”

My voice was a low growl.

The room around me went deathly quiet.

My men froze in place, even the prisoner, who had been sobbing only moments before, was forcibly silenced by the sudden, terrifying shift in the atmosphere.

1 looked at my hands.

They were covered in the dark, drying stains of my work.

With a grunt of distaste, I stripped off the bloodstained surgical gloves and tossed them into a nearby trash bin.

As I brought the phone to my ear, my voice softened.

Natalie had no idea where I was.

She had no idea that ten feet away from me, a man was losing his fingernails because he had dared to touch our children.

She began to explain the files Renee had received.

As she spoke about the chat logs – those intimate, private pieces of her past that Jensen was now trying to use as a leash, I felt a different kind of rage.

“I don’t want to deal with him anymore,” Natalie said, her voice sounding exhausted but final. “It’s nauseating. Please, Baron… have a lawyer handle it. I don’t want to see another word he’s written.”

I couldn’t have been happier to hear those words.

I felt a surge of grim satisfaction that nearly made me smile in the dark.

Finally.

Jensen was digging his own grave with the very memories he thought would save him.

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He was a fool.

He thought he could win her back by reminding her of the version of herself she had grown to despise.

“All right, sweetheart. Leave this to me, I murmured, leaning against the cold stone wall, away from the carnage. “I’ll take care of

1. it. I’ll find a lawyer who will make him regret he ever learned to type. Where are you now? Want to grab lunch together? I can be there in twenty minutes.”

I checked my watch.

It was already past nine o’clock.

I had been in this basement for six hours, and I hadn’t even noticed the sun had come up.

Natalie laughed on the other end.

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I’m heading to the home studio. I need to wrap up some design work for the pack. The kids are at preschool, so I’ll pick them up this afternoon.”

“Good,” I said, my thumb tracing the edge of my jaw. “What do you want for dinner? I’llcook.”

Natalie thought for a moment, and I could practically see the smile on her face.

“Why don’t you make steak? I’ve been craving it. Something hearty.”

“Done. I’ll have someone pick up the freshest ribs the market has to offer,” I promised. “Maybe some of that wine you liked from the North.”

We chatted for a few more minutes before we finally hung up.

The silence that followed was different.

I looked up and saw my inner circle standing frozen, their mouths practically hanging open.

Chris’s second–in–command was staring at me as if I had just sprouted a second head.

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Their scents were a chaotic mess of confusion and disbelief.

I could see the words they dared not speak written all over their faces.

I felt the warmth leave my face.

When I turned to face them, I caught them all staring.

“What are you standing around for?” I barked. “Did you get the confession or not? Or do I need to put the gloves back on?”

Every one of them jumped.

The spell was broken.

The room exploded back into frantic activity as they turned their attention back to the prisoner, desperate to satisfy my hunger for information before I decided they were more interesting than the man in the chair.

I looked at the phone in my hand, then at the blood on the floor.

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