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CH ~ 0046 VETO POWER
“Vincenzo has issued a formal challenge. In underworld terms, he's declared open war. Anyone who controls Master Chen's territories is now a target for every criminal organization that wants them." Knox raised a brow, "Explain." Fred pulled out a laptop, showing Knox a series of photographs. Territory maps. Criminal networks. Smuggling routes. Information webs. All marked with Master Chen's seal. "This is the empire your master left you," Fred said. "It spans three continents. Controls billions in black market trade. Has connections to governments, corporations, criminal syndicates from Tokyo to Moscow to São Paulo." Knox stared at the maps. "I didn't ask for this." "Master Chen gave it to you anyway. And now Vincenzo wants it back. But he's not the only one." Fred said and swiped to another screen. Faces. Names. Organizations appeared. "These are the major players who've been waiting for Master Chen's heir to reveal himself. Some wants to ally with you. Others
CH ~ 0045 HUNTING YOU
Byron took a long shower like he was washing every dirt that cell placed on his body. The painful one-month sentence he had been given had finally come to an end after weeks of pleading with his mother to get him out of that hell hole. To everyone else, it may have felt short, but to Byron, it had seemed like eternity. The harsh labour, intimidating inmates and contaminated food made his life a living hell. The smell had nearly broken him. More than once, he had felt like he would die inside that prison. Lady Morgan finished her makeup and changed into one of her favourite outfits. Earlier, she had instructed her guards to help support Byron because he was too weak to walk properly on his own. Before leaving for the prison earlier that morning, she had instructed the servants to prepare a warm welcome for Byron's return. Decorations had been arranged throughout the mansion, while the maids busied themselves preparing a delicious meal. Just as they were placing Byron's favou
CH ~ 0044 DECLARED WAR
The assassin spat blood. "Go to hell."Knox's foot came down on the man's balls.CRACK.The scream echoed through the parking garage."Wrong answer.""Okay! Okay!" The assassin gasped through pain. "Vincenzo! Vincenzo Chen! We work for Vincenzo!"Knox went still... Vincenzo Chen? That.. that is Master Chen's brother."What does he want?" Knox pressed on."The heir. Master Chen's heir. We're hunting anyone with the Rivera name. Vincenzo's orders. Kill them all until we find the right one."Knox's blood went cold.Kill them all? Was that his plan? Regardless of innocence people involved? Was he that desperate?That's why they aimed where Aurora would have been.‘They were going to kill my daughter just to see if I was the heir.’Something shifted in Knox's expression, something that made the assassin's eyes go wide with primal fear."You made a mistake," Knox said quietly."Wait"Knox's strike was surgical. Precise. Fatal.The assassin's body went limp.Knox turned to the second man, th
CH ~ 0043 AN ATTACK
Knox pushed Aurora's stroller through Riverside Park, enjoying the late afternoon sun filtering through autumn leaves.Aurora was 19 months old now—big enough to sit up in the stroller, her dark eyes tracking birds and squirrels with fascination. She babbled happily, tiny hands reaching for leaves that drifted past.Knox smiled despite the tension coiling in his gut.Because he'd noticed three cars and several men in corporate wear standing at different corners, their eyes glued on them. Those they had glasses on as disguise, Knox could see through them. They didn't seem like regular businessmen who came to enjoy the park, they were professionals.The kind who knew how to disappear into crowds, how to maintain distance, how to watch without being obvious.But Knox had been trained by Master Chen.And Master Chen had taught him to see patterns invisible to normal people.The man reading a newspaper on the bench fifty meters away—same man from yesterday, different location.The woman j
CH ~ 0042 VINCENZO
Vincenzo Chen stood in the center of the empty space, surrounded by concrete pillars and shadows that moved with breath and intention. They were his men.Twenty of them, all professionals. Killers who'd worked for him for years. Silent. Efficient and Loyal.Vincenzo was in his early sixties, but age had only sharpened him rather than dulling his edges. Silver hair slicked back from a face that had never been handsome but had always been commanding. His eyes were dark and calculating—the eyes of a man who'd spent forty years in the shadows, building power while his older brother basked in legend. Master Chen.The name still made Vincenzo's jaw clench with bitterness.His brother—the great strategist, the alchemist, the master tactician who'd controlled half of South River's underworld without ever raising his voice.And when Chen died in prison, he'd given everything to an outsider.Not to Vincenzo.Not to family.To some nobody he met in prison.The insult burned like acid.Footsteps
CH ~ 0041 NOVEMBER 15
Lady Morgan's two bodyguards—both massive, both trained in combat—emerged first, flanking the car as Lady Morgan stepped out on trembling legs.She'd brought the bodyguards for comfort, for protection, for the psychological safety of having dangerous men at her back.But looking at the soldiers with their weapons and hard eyes, Lady Morgan realized her bodyguards were nothing compared to what waited inside those walls."Arms out. Feet apart."Lady Morgan submitted to the pat-down, her face burning with humiliation as the female soldier searched her thoroughly—checking for weapons, contraband, anything that could be smuggled inside.Her bodyguards were disarmed—guns, knives, even their watches and belts confiscated."You'll get these back when you leave," the soldier said, dropping their weapons into a lockbox.Lady Morgan's lead bodyguard—Ivan looked uncomfortable without his firearm. Vulnerable."Is this standard procedure?" Lady Morgan asked, trying to keep her voice steady."This i
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