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CHAPTER 254
The explosion footage hit every screen in the city before the smoke had finished rising.Somebody's dashcam had captured the entire thing from forty yards away. The sedan driving normally through traffic. The flash beneath the engine. The vehicle lifting off the road like a toy thrown by a giant hand. The fireball that swallowed the wreckage whole.The video was thirty seven seconds long. It was viewed four million times in the first hour.Comments exploded faster than the car had."Alexander Kane is dead. No one survives that.""That was a bomb. A real bomb. In the middle of the city.""Who has the kind of enemies that send car bombs?""Whoever did this just committed an act of terrorism on a public road.""Is this connected to the Thompson thing? Victoria Thompson was just on TV crying about him."Marcus had the scene locked down within nine minutes of arrival. His men formed a perimeter that pushed bystanders, reporters, and curious drivers back three full blocks in every direction
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A paramedic who happened to be in a nearby vehicle rushed forward with a first aid kit. Other bystanders began approaching, their shock transforming into the urgent need to help."Sir, sit down. You need medical attention immediately." The paramedic reached for Alexander's arm.Alexander didn't sit. He stood with Emma against his chest, his eyes scanning the surrounding buildings, the rooftops, the parked cars, the faces in the crowd. Cataloging. Assessing. Searching for the source.Someone planned this. Someone who knew my route. Someone who planted a device on the vehicle while we were at the ice cream shop.Three blocks away, on the fourth floor of a parking structure overlooking Meridian Avenue, a man in dark clothes lowered a pair of binoculars.His face was blank. Professional. The face of someone who had done this kind of work many times before and had learned to keep emotion out of the equation.But his hands weren't steady.He watched Alexander standing in the middle of the r
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He was in his car before the last word left his mouth, tires smoking as he accelerated into traffic, siren screaming.At the crash site, a crowd had gathered at a distance that fear dictated. Close enough to see. Far enough to run. The burning vehicle sat in the middle of the road like a funeral pyre, flames licking at the twisted metal, smoke pouring from every gap in the destroyed body."Nobody could survive that." A man in a business suit stood on the sidewalk, his phone already recording. "That car is gone.""Was there a child inside?" A woman pressed her hand over her mouth. "Oh God, I think I saw a child in the backseat.""Someone call 911! Call them now!""The fire department won't get here in time. Look at those flames."Then the door moved.The driver's side door, facing upward since the car rested on its right side, groaned against its warped frame. Metal scraped against metal with a sound like a dying animal. The door shifted an inch. Then another.Then it exploded outward.
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Marcus's voice was still coming through the phone when Alexander's instincts fired.It wasn't something he saw first. It was something he felt. A shift in the rhythm of the traffic around him. The sedan three cars back had been maintaining the exact same distance for six blocks. Not closing. Not falling behind. Matching his speed with the mechanical precision of someone trained to follow without being noticed.And ahead, a dark van had slowed to thirty miles per hour in a forty five zone, positioning itself in the center lane where it would be impossible to pass without committing to the oncoming traffic lane.Pincer formation. One behind, one ahead. Textbook ambush geometry."Marcus." Alexander's voice cut through whatever the colonel was saying. "I have a tail. Black sedan, three cars back. Dark van ahead, decelerating."Marcus's response was immediate. "Location?""Eastbound on Meridian, passing Fourth Street. Emma is in the vehicle." Alexander's eyes moved to the rearview mirror,
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Alexander had barely stepped out of the car when the voice found him again.The man from the ice cream shop was leaning against a pillar near the parking lot entrance, arms crossed, that strange smile still plastered across his face. He had followed them. Not subtly. Not carefully. With the open, deliberate boldness of someone who wanted to be seen."Leaving so soon?" The man pushed off the pillar and walked toward Alexander with his hands in his pockets. "I was hoping we could chat. Man to man."Alexander held Emma's hand and kept walking toward the mall entrance where he had parked closer. His stride didn't change. His expression didn't shift.The man fell into step beside him, matching his pace with exaggerated casualness. "You know, I've been watching the news lately. Fascinating stuff. Really entertaining. A man comes back from nowhere, destroys an entire family, drives the patriarch to his grave, and then takes his daughter out for ice cream like he's father of the year."Severa
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