Chapter 42: Slaughter King!

When Zander Balam's shriveled corpse hit the ground with a dull thud, the entire courtyard fell into a dead, stunned silence. The Balam Family Patriarch erupted into a hoarse, frenzied roar. Yet with the Yare Family Patriarch standing there, hatred burning in his chest like a furnace, he could not force his way through that invisible boundary no matter how hard he tried. With Zander dead, the Balam family's move tonight had failed completely. While the two sides had been locked in battle, someone...