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    Cooper Group, the colossal empire he had devoted his life to, should not copse in disgrace, nor crumble beneath their father’s voracious ambition. The lessons carved into him since childhood had never left him — the century-old foundation of Cooper Group must alwayse first. Yet he could no longerprehend, and could no longer tolerate, the monstrous acts his father hadmitted: the human experimentation, the deployment of viral agents, any one of which possessed the power to annihte Cooper Group and reduce a century of prestige to dust in a single heartbeat.


    He had never obtained the chance to correct those wrongs. He hadcked the strength to protect the woman he cherished — Maia.


    Her name flickered through his thoughts, stirring a muted ache that settled heavily inside him.


    udius felt like nothing more than a failure.


    He had anticipated every variable, navigated deception and corporate scheming, and dissected the tangled interests rooted within the Cooper bloodline — yet he had never foreseen his own father’s merciless strike against his son. He had been absurdly naive, believing that even the most vicious predator guarded its offspring. Reality now mocked him with cruel rity. Kolton had already crossed lines no sane man would dare approach, yet udius had clung to the illusion that some fragment of humanity remained — that a father would cherish his own blood.


    In Kolton’s eyes, family held no meaning and affection was a foreign concept. He viewed his children as tools to be shaped, stripped of will, emptied of spirit, and molded into obedient instruments that would follow his everymand.


    udius was sinking deeper into the abyss of despair when a thunderous crash ripped through the room without warning.


    The ICU door burst open under a violent impact, jolting the sterile silence. The sudden noise rattled the doctors and nurses mid-rounds. A clipboard slipped from a doctor’s grasp and ttered against the tiles as the medical staff stared, wide-eyed and speechless, at the squad of heavily armed operatives flooding into the room.


    “What… what are you doing?” the attending doctor managed, his voice barely holding itself together.


    The man at the forefront towered over the others, a cold, razor-edged stare cutting through the room. He was the captain of udius’s covert special forces unit, known only by the code name Falcon. Without acknowledging the doctor’s question, without so much as tilting his head, he raised his hand in one swift, upromising signal — a gesture that demanded immediate execution of his orders.


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