Mutter

Chapter 1186: Return to Margrave

“Who was it that said, ‘You don’t pay a call girl for sex, you pay her to leave afterwards’?” Megan clutched Jack’s hand tightly, her bloodless lips trembling as she asked.

Jack had ultimately come to the hospital. After accompanying Megan through a series of medical checks, he remained at her bedside to ensure she didn’t spiral into another dark episode. That one vigil turned into an entire night.

“Uh, Dashiell Hammett?” Jack nearly missed the cue.

Dashiel...

Chapter 1153: No One Can Interfere in My Family's Affairs – Odin’s Backfire

Chapter 1185: A Loving Father and Filial Daughter

Recalling Jack's instructions in her mind, Megan casually wiped her tears away. Her twisted expression quickly returned to normal before facing her father again, and she asked calmly, “Why do you want that list?”

“Obviously to hide it. If the FBI finds it, they’ll use it as evidence to charge you with three counts of murder. You’ll spend the rest of your life in a federal prison,” Andrew Kane declared righteously, acting as though everything he did was for her own good.

Chapter 1155: The Importance of Titles — Beating Odin to the Punch

Chapter 1154: Being Too Physically Strong Isn’t Always a Good Thing — The Game Between the Black Phantom and the Assassins

Chapter 1184: A “Tender” Father-Daughter Moment

Jack sat across from Megan, wineglass in hand. From the front pouch of his bulletproof vest, he pulled out the box JJ had given him and placed it on the coffee table. Glancing at the time, he spoke calmly.

“Factoring in traffic, your father won’t arrive at the hotel for at least another hour. And if necessary, I could even have the elevator malfunction—trap him in there a little longer.”

“That means we’ve got plenty of time. Don’t you think this would be a good momen...

Chapter 1182: The “Self-Depraved” Heiress

When it came to professional matters, they were best handled by professionals. After a round of thinly veiled threats from Jubal and Aubrey, the FBI quickly obtained the information they needed.

Katherine Villa—a former escort who had suddenly and hastily quit the business three years ago.

According to Madam Peyton, Katherine had been very young and highly sought after when she left, and her departure had come without explanation, appearing quite abrupt.

“I have to admit...

Chapter 1150: Forgetful Thor, Scheming Loki

Chapter 1183: Poison in the Wine?

The next morning, the FBI's Most Wanted Task Force intercepted a Rolls-Royce Cullinan in the B2-level underground parking lot of a skyscraper in Dallas's central business district.

“Who the hell are you people?”

Clay and Aubrey each restrained one of the car’s personnel—Clay grabbing the driver, Aubrey the bodyguard who had just stepped out from the passenger side. Jack casually slapped his badge against the rear window.

“Step out of the car, Mr. Andrew Kane. We ne...

Chapter 1181: The Client List

Although Trent Rubb had said the suspect was a girl named Helena, it was clearly just an alias. Aubrey contacted the madam who went by the name "Peyton" again, but the effort turned up nothing.

“Her original standard for choosing victims no longer applies. After tomorrow, we might be dealing with a lunatic who slaughters indiscriminately. That’s really, really bad,” Aubrey said with exaggerated concern—but his expression was surprisingly relaxed.

After all, they were alrea...

Chapter 1151: Retreating to Advance, Sibling Unity?

Chapter 1152: The Most Important Goal Achieved — Now He Has the Leverage to Watch the Storm Unfold

Chapter 1178: Penthouse

"Hiring escorts is illegal, and it's also damaging to one's reputation. Of course, that approach won't work. These wealthy men won't willingly talk to the FBI," Jack said, though his face still bore that familiar confident smile.

"…But?" Aubrey, who had seen firsthand how Jack handled that lawyer early this morning—technically still last night—had already started to guess where he was going with this.

"But we can summon the legal teams representing these rich men un...

Chapter 1149: High Returns Require Great Costs

Chapter 1179: The Killer Calls (Part 1)

The phone kept ringing as Jack dialed Alice’s number, instructing her to trace the call immediately.

But before JJ could pick up, the answering machine activated with a beep, and a sultry female voice came through the speaker. “Jack, I know you’re there. Pick up the phone.”

Everyone’s eyes immediately turned to him. Jack was still trying to determine if this was just some odd coincidence when the voice called him out clearly and confidently, using his full name: “Jack ...

Chapter 1148: Of Course It's Pointless—for William

Chapter 1180: The Killer Calls (Part 2)

“I’m a federal agent. What else could I possibly be doing?” Jack asked, feigning confusion.

“Don’t play dumb with me, Jack. You’re here to make this all go away. They sent you to find me, to clean things up, to make me disappear, just like they want!”

The woman’s voice was seething with rage, each word like a ticking time bomb.

To everyone’s surprise, Jack responded with a light chuckle. “I get that you’ve probably been betrayed too many times ...

Chapter 1147: Odin's Restlessness and a Pointless War

Chapter 1177: Piercing the Fog

With assistance from various legal teams, gathering background information on the victims happened at lightning speed. By the time Jubal arrived with the rest of the Most Wanted team, the large conference table in their temporary office was already stacked with boxes of paper files.

And that was just the physical documents. The materials weren’t limited to the third victim, Joseph Fielding, either. More detailed information than what the state attorney’s office had previously sent a...

Chapter 1176: Pride and Prejudice

“State your business. My colleagues and I were just in a firefight downtown and got called here right after. You should understand what that means, Mr. Barrett. When someone’s in a terrible mood, there’s no such thing as being reasonable.”

Jack was getting irritated with the lawyer, and that irritation was beginning to spill over onto Attorney General Jackson. The same man who had asked Jack to keep things quiet was now throwing him under the bus now that the case had gone publi...

Chapter 1144: Kicking Lucifer into Mephisto's Territory

Chapter 1146: Spatial Phasing, Crushing Recruitment, and a Match Made at the Gym

Chapter 1145: Paving the Way for Thor? Countess Angela Burton Is Yours

Chapter 1175: The Third Murder, Summoning the Team

When the SWAT team finally stormed the devastated hallway behind their riot shields, the man responsible for five deaths and eleven injuries was already devoid of any vital signs.

One pound of C4 isn't especially powerful; only a short section of the second-floor corridor in the El Centro College library was damaged. The building's structural integrity remained intact.

And considering that over fifty students inside the main building were kept safe thanks to the bravery of two cam...

Chapter 1172: FBI Joins the Battle (Part Two)

What lay before them was a scene of carnage—five or six officers and civilians lay sprawled in the middle of the street, blood pooling beneath their bodies and streaming along the pavement toward nearby drains in horrifying crimson streaks.

The El Centro College Officer Rocha had mentioned stood on the northwest corner of the intersection. The protest procession had been moving west to east, and DPD patrol cars had been stationed on both sides to block off traffic from the north and s...

Chapter 1143: Foresight Meets Total Surveillance—Dead on Arrival?

Chapter 1142: Digging a Pit for Stark Before Even Cooperating—Foreseeing the Future

Chapter 1174: Suicide Robot

Midnight had come and gone, the police helicopter patrols above had already switched shifts, yet the standoff showed no sign of ending.

That said, Texas certainly outperformed California in terms of operational execution. DPD swiftly coordinated with the FAA to issue a temporary no-fly zone, permitting only law enforcement aircraft to fly over the city.

As a result, the embarrassment common in Los Angeles—where news choppers outnumber police ones—was avoided, and all news vans...

Chapter 1173: You Again?

The three-story library building of El Centro College had been completely surrounded—layer after layer of law enforcement—and the three FBI agents who had come to assist were ushered into a command vehicle being used as the temporary tactical center.

It was the same model as the one used by the Fugitive Task Force—built by Matman Inc. on a Freightliner MT-55 truck chassis. Judging by the paint job, it belonged to DPD.

The DPD SWAT team was already in position, using a loudsp...

Chapter 1141: If You Want Someone to Take the Fall for You, You'd Better Be a Huge Benefactor First