Chapter 749 [ 521 words ] Chapter 749: He did not jab a thumb toward the closed door behind him. He couldn’t. Instead, his eyes flicked once toward Caroline’s room, and the gesture was more terrifying than any pointed hand could have been. “On your watch,” he hissed, the words

Chapter 748 [ 470 words ] Chapter 748: The peace was shattered by the sound of heavy boots marching down the hallway. Instructor Sharpe and Instructor Reynolds appeared at the nurse’s station, their faces grim. They did not come in swaggering. They came in looking like women who understood that

Chapter 747 [ 542 words ] Chapter 747: She had known him for years, had served under his command in the worst places on earth. She had seen him kill men without a flicker of emotion. She had never seen this. This man, covered in mud and bile, standing rigid

Chapter 746 [ 453 words ] Chapter 746: She spun toward the medicine cabinet. “Get me a saline flush and a ten cc vial of diphenhydramine, IV push!” she snapped at the nurse. Jarrod stood beside the bed, a statue carved from mud, fury, and enforced helplessness. His modified service

Chapter 745 [ 493 words ] Chapter 745: “Dr. Reed!” Jarrod roared, his voice a thunderclap of pure command. Dr. Evelyn Reed appeared from a supply room, a medical chart in her hand. She took one look at the scene — the mud, Caroline’s convulsing body, the Colonel’s face a

Chapter 744 [ 500 words ] Chapter 744: “Soft restraints,” Jarrod snapped, his voice low and lethal. “Wrists only. Keep her hands away from the contaminated site. Do not put pressure on the neck.” One medic secured Caroline’s wrists with a padded field strap across her lower chest, tight enough

Chapter 743 [ 491 words ] Chapter 743: She spun around, her face a mask of fury. She marched directly toward Melanie, her finger jabbing the air inches from Melanie’s nose. “You!” Brenna roared, her voice echoing across the now-buzzing field. “You did this! At the starting line! I saw

Chapter 742 [ 512 words ] Chapter 742: The medics snapped back into motion as if a weapon had been leveled at their spines. One dropped beside Caroline with a trauma bag. The other slid a folded stretcher from the equipment rack near the track and sprinted toward them. Jarrod

Chapter 741 [ 490 words ] Chapter 741: Her body scraped up the wall, and she threw herself over the top, landing in a heap in the sandpit on the other side. The impact sent a shockwave of agony through her system. The chemical agent, agitated by the violent movement,

Chapter 740 [ 532 words ] Chapter 740: The memory locked onto a single, chaotic moment at the starting line. Brenna shoving Melanie. Melanie stumbling back, her left hand flailing out, brushing against the back of Caroline’s collar. It had seemed unnatural then. A clumsy, awkward movement. Now it was

Chapter 739 [ 500 words ] Chapter 739: From the sideline, Jarrod saw it all. He saw the stumble. He saw the unnatural, clawing motion of her hands. He saw the angry red rash blooming on the exposed skin of her neck. His mind, trained in the brutal realities of

Chapter 738 [ 564 words ] Chapter 738: He was not in a perfectly fitted dress uniform. He wore a modified service jacket cut broad through the torso to accommodate the rigid medical brace still locked across his chest. His right arm remained trapped against him beneath the structured fabric,

Chapter 737 [ 491 words ] Chapter 737: The words hit Melanie like a physical blow. Her face contorted, the muscles twitching, her eyes flaring with pure, murderous intent. She lunged forward, her hands reaching for Caroline’s throat. “Hey!” Brenna yelled, stepping between them and giving Melanie a hard shove.

Chapter 736 [ 499 words ] Chapter 736: The pistol shot echoed across the field, and Melanie Thorne lurched from the starting line with a burst of ugly, frantic speed. For the first thirty yards, she looked terrifying. Not disciplined. Not trained. Terrifying. She ran like an animal fleeing a

Chapter 735 [ 477 words ] Chapter 735: The starting pistol cracked. Beatrix moved. Not like a sprinter. Not like a miracle patient pretending cracked ribs did not exist. She moved like a woman who had been trained her whole life to make precision look effortless. She read the grid

Chapter 734 [ 559 words ] Chapter 734: Caroline stood in formation with Alpha platoon, the muscles in her legs and shoulders still aching from punishment runs, field drills, and too little sleep. The previous night’s quiet session with Jarrod had left her steadier, not sore. He had not touched

Chapter 733 [ 465 words ] Chapter 733: For the next twenty minutes, the storeroom became something quieter and more dangerous than a dojo. There were no bodies colliding, no shelves rattling, no impossible feats from a man whose arms were still ruined. There was only his voice cutting through

Chapter 732 [ 533 words ] Chapter 732: She stepped into the narrow space his injuries allowed and pressed herself carefully against his chest, avoiding the brace. His good shoulder dipped toward her, his chin lowering into her hair. It was not a crushing embrace. It could not be. It

Chapter 731 [ 476 words ] Chapter 731: “Get out,” she snarled, her voice low and venomous. She pointed a rigid finger at the door. “Get your ass over to the medical center. And stay out of my sight.” Several nights later, the infirmary was a pocket of silence in

Chapter 730 [ 510 words ] Chapter 730: Sharpe wasn’t at her desk. She was standing with her back to the door, her hands braced on the windowsill, staring out at the training field. Her broad shoulders were rigid, rising and falling with ragged, uneven breaths. The air in the