Chapter 104: The King's Game

The scent of antiseptic and old iron had replaced the coppery tang of blood, but the ghost of it lingered in Venom’s former office. Calvin Cox sat behind the imposing steel desk, the throne of his newly conquered kingdom. The past week had been a blur of brutal efficiency. Networks were dismantled and reassembled under his control. Loyalties were tested, broken, or forged anew in the fires of fear and opportunity. Stonegate, a beast that had once thrashed in chaotic agony, was slowly, painfully,...