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Chapter 20 – The Counterstroke
Morning came with fire. The headlines screamed across every screen, every paper, every whisper in the city.CRANE EMPIRE IN FREEFALL.LEAKED FILES EXPOSE OFFSHORE CORRUPTION.DONORS WITHDRAW SUPPORT.Television anchors wore smug smiles as they recounted the scandal. “Senator Daniel Crane’s campaign faces unprecedented crisis this morning after damning evidence surfaced linking him to a network of illegal offshore accounts. Sources suggest several prominent donors have already severed ties…”On Wall Street, Daniel’s holdings nosedived. In D.C., his backers retreated. In his mansion, Daniel raged like a wounded beast, throwing glasses, shredding papers, cursing every name except his own.But in a shadowed penthouse overlooking the chaos, Adrian Black smiled. He leaned back in his chair, cigarette smoke curling upward like a crown. Victor stood nearby, tense, silent. Adrian tapped the screen showing the plummeting numbers.“Watch carefully, Kane. That’s not just a campaign collapsing. Th
Chapter 19 – Knives in the Dark
The skyline glittered like a thousand watchful eyes, but Adrian trusted none of them. From his penthouse, he studied the city map projected on the glass wall.Red markers pulsed, banks, shell companies, holding firms. Each one a vein in Daniel Crane’s empire. And tonight, Adrian intended to cut them open.Victor stood silently at his side. He looked every bit the soldier, dark suit, eyes hard, jaw set. But beneath the armor, turmoil twisted.He felt it like fire in his veins: Jolie’s command, Adrian’s trust. Both tugged at him like opposite poles of a magnet, threatening to tear him apart.Adrian’s voice broke the silence. “First mission, Kane. Think of it as… sharpening the knife.”Victor’s brow furrowed. “Who’s the target?”Adrian gestured at a marker blinking red on the map. “Crane’s offshore banking proxy. A small boutique firm. Harmless, on the surface. But its books hold the skeleton key to Daniel’s financial empire.”He turned, his gaze piercing. “We bleed him there, and every
Chapter 17 – The Queen’s Gambit
The storm hadn’t ended with the fundraiser. By the next morning, headlines smeared Daniel Crane’s name in black ink: CORRUPTION AT THE CORE?SECRET TAPES ROCK CRANE CAMPAIGN.DONORS WITHDRAW MILLIONS AFTER LEAK.Daniel raged behind closed doors, smashing glasses, cursing aides, spiraling in humiliation. But Jolie Crane? She was silent. Watching. Calculating.She sat in her private suite, silk robe flowing like spilled wine, the city framed behind her. The world believed Daniel was the power in their marriage.But Jolie knew better. Daniel was a sword. She was the hand that wielded it. And last night, Adrian Black had wrenched that sword from her grip. That could not stand.A knock at the door pulled her from thought. She didn’t need to ask who it was. “Enter.”Victor Kane stepped inside, shoulders hunched, suit wrinkled from a night without rest. He looked less like her enforcer and more like a man hollowed out by choices too sharp to swallow.Jolie studied him the way a surgeon studi
Chapter 16 – The Strings Tighten
Politics was a game of handshakes and shadows. Adrian Black knew this better than most. That evening, in a suite high above the skyline, Adrian studied the city like a chessboard.Below, lights pulsed where Daniel Crane’s campaign headquarters still clung to life, though the walls were crumbling.His men had already mapped the donor network, flagged weaknesses in Crane’s alliances, and infiltrated the gossip columns that whispered into Washington’s ears.It wasn’t enough to break Daniel’s business. No, Adrian would carve out the heart of his ambition, his politics. “Tonight,” Adrian murmured, lighting a cigarette, “we pull one thread. By dawn, his entire suit unravels.”Marcus stood by the door, silent as always. Across from Adrian, Victor Kane shifted uneasily in his chair, a glass of whiskey sweating in his hand. “You dragged me here,” Victor muttered. “Now tell me why.”Adrian’s gaze lifted, pinning him with surgical calm. “Because you’re going to help me deliver the message.”Vict
Chapter 15 – The Fracture
The taste of gunpowder clung to Victor’s tongue all the way back to the city. He sat slumped in the back of the SUV, shirt torn, blood crusted on his knuckles, the silence of his men louder than any accusation.Half of them hadn’t made it out of the warehouse. The rest were broken shells, eyes hollow, like survivors of a war they’d already lost. Victor didn’t look at them. He couldn’t.Adrian’s voice haunted him with every mile. You’re mine now. Whether you like it or not. When the convoy reached Jolie’s penthouse tower, the survivors scattered into the night, too ashamed to face their mistress. Victor went up alone.The elevator doors opened into marble silence. The air was sharp with perfume, but underneath it, acid, wine, rage. Jolie was waiting in the living room, silk gown flowing like smoke, a glass of red clutched in her hand. Daniel Crane sat beside her, tie loosened, jaw tight, his phone buzzing with unanswered calls.Jolie’s smile was venomous. “My champion returns.”Victor
Chapter 14 – The Fault Line
The night tasted of iron and storm. Victor Kane crouched in the back of a black SUV, pistol heavy against his thigh, his men silent around him.The convoy rolled through the abandoned industrial district, headlights cutting across broken warehouses and cracked asphalt.Jolie’s voice still echoed in his ear from the briefing hours before. You lead. You corner him. And you end this. He’d nodded then, because that was what she wanted. But now, the words clanged in his skull like chains.Adrian Black was no ordinary target. He wasn’t some corporate rival or mafia boss. He was a phantom wrapped in flesh, a man who turned fear into a weapon sharper than steel.And Victor knew, deep in his gut, that Adrian would be waiting. “Three minutes,” one of his lieutenants muttered, chambering a round.Victor adjusted his coat, masking the flicker of unease in his chest. He was the hunter here, damn it. Not prey. Still, as the SUVs halted outside the warehouse Jolie’s sources had flagged as Adrian’s “
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