Chapter 13 - THE HOUSE THAT FEAR BUILTThe Blackwood organization split.
Some men stayed with Julian.
Others remembered Victor.
Victor refused to command them.
Instead, he told them the truth.
"The Blackwood organization ends tonight."
The men stared.
He admitted what he had done.
The money.
The threats.
The fear.
The silence.
"I built a house where people were more afraid of me than of the monsters standing beside me."
Nobody spoke.
Then one captain lowered his weapon.
Another followed.
Julian panicked.
He activated the mansion's destruction system.
Fuel lines opened beneath the nursery.
The countdown began.
Lily discovered the detonator.
It required two fingerprints.
Victor.
Adrian.
The twins stood on opposite sides of a steel door.
Eight minutes.
Seven.
Six.
They worked together.
For the first time in their lives, Victor and Adrian used their shared blood to save someone instead of control someone.
The system stopped.
The mansion began to burn anyway.
Victor looked at the flames.
"This was my home."
Lily stood beside him.
"No."
She looked at the burning foyer.
"It was the house fear built."
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Victor nodded.
And walked away.
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