All Chapters of The Confessors Blade: Chapter 61
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Chapter 60: Fault Lines
They moved Ethan before sunrise.No sirens. No convoy. Just a quiet transfer through underground corridors that smelled of concrete dust and old secrets. Rao walked beside him, tablet tucked under her arm, her expression unreadable.“You trust us?” she asked suddenly.Ethan didn’t look at her. “No.”“Good,” she said. “Then we’re clear.”They emerged into a hangar carved into rock. A matte-black transport sat waiting, engines already humming. No markings. No tail number.Rao stopped at the foot of the ramp. “Once we lift, you’re off the books. If this goes wrong—”“I don’t exist,” Ethan finished.She nodded. “Vale is being moved. Shaw doesn’t keep assets still for long.”“Neither do I,” Ethan said, and boarded.The cabin lights dimmed as the aircraft banked hard. A man across from Ethan slid a folder onto the seat between them—thin, deliberately so.“Everything we know,” the man said. “Which isn’t much.”Ethan opened it anyway.Photos. Blurred satellite shots. Shipping manifests. A nam
Chapter 61: Aftershocks
The sea kept its secrets.Ethan stood at the edge of the shattered glass wall long after the sirens faded into distance, watching the water churn as if it might spit Shaw back out—smiling, smug, unfinished.It didn’t.Vale stepped closer, wrapping a thermal blanket tighter around her shoulders. “If you’re waiting for him to float,” she said quietly, “he won’t.”“I know,” Ethan replied.“You’re still hoping.”He glanced at her. “I’m verifying.”She snorted softly. “That’s the most you answer you could’ve given.”Behind them, boots crunched over glass. Rao approached, phone pressed to her ear, voice clipped. “No, I don’t care what the satellites say. If you don’t have a body, you don’t have certainty.” She paused, listening. Her jaw tightened. “Run it again.”She ended the call and looked at Ethan. “He planned this place too well.”“He always did,” Ethan said. “Beautiful exits. Multiple contingencies.”Vale folded her arms. “You’re saying he wanted the option to disappear.”“I’m saying