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Chapter 121: The Coward with Resources
Logan looked down at Milton against the table and something in his expression settled into a coldness that had no performance in it at all."Go ahead," he said quietly. "Explain yourself."He moved before Milton could answer.He leaped forward and came down with one foot landing squarely on Milton's chest, his full weight behind it. Milton hit the floor with the impact, the breath driven out of him in a single wretched sound, his arms thrown wide. Logan kept the pressure there, his shoe against Milton's sternum, watching the man's face contort beneath him."You drugged a drink," Logan said, his voice level and unhurried even as his foot pressed down. "You blocked the door. You had women trapped in a room with eight men." His jaw tightened. "And you sat there in your chair and waited for it to work like it was a normal Tuesday."Milton made a strangled sound, his hands scrabbling at Logan's leg without the strength to move it.Logan pressed harder."You call yourself a man of standing,
Chapter 120: The Question of Identity
The silence stretched between them, and Milton sat in it with the growing, horrible understanding that the answer to his question was going to be worse than the question itself.Logan crouched down again, bringing himself level with Milton's eyeline, which forced Milton to look at him directly rather than up at him, which should have felt less threatening and somehow felt more so."You really don't know," Logan said. It was not quite a question."Know what?" Milton's voice was tight. "Know what? Tell me who you are. You break into my building, you take out eight of my men, and you……" He gestured at the room, at the unconscious bodies distributed across the floor, at the overturned table and the broken glass and the general evidence of the past several minutes. "You do all of this and you won't even tell me who I'm dealing with?""You should have asked that question before you put a drug in someone's drink," Logan said.Milton's mouth closed."Before you blocked the door," Logan contin
Chapter 119: The Inventory of Resources
Milton's eyes moved around the room.He did it quickly, the scanning sweep of a man running an inventory of his remaining resources and not liking the numbers. The three bodyguards who had been holding Denise were on the floor and were not getting up. The two he had expected to step forward had stepped back instead. His glass was in pieces against the wall.Logan was crouched in front of him, close enough that Milton could see the patience in his eyes, and patience was the wrong thing to be seeing in the eyes of a man in this situation. Anger he could work with rage made people reckless and reckless people made mistakes. But this was not anger. This was something organized and deliberate that had decided how long it was going to take and was in no hurry at all.Milton's gaze moved past Logan's shoulder and found what it was looking for.In the far corner of the room, the bodyguard Denise had kicked in the corridor was still seated against the wall. His trousers were slightly disheve
Chapter 118: The Problem with Power
Milton took one step backward and the table stopped him. He pressed both hands against its surface and looked at Logan coming toward him with the wide, recalculating eyes of a man whose options were narrowing faster than he could identify new ones.The two remaining bodyguards moved forward.Logan looked at the one on the left first. The man slowed. Logan looked at the one on the right, and something in that look, steady and completely without heat, made both of them pause in the way that prey paused when it understood, at some level below conscious thought, that movement might make things worse."Sit down," Logan said to them.It was not a loud instruction. It was the kind of instruction that didn't need to be loud because the authority behind it had nothing to do with volume.Both men stopped moving. One of them actually took a step backward.Logan turned his attention back to Milton.Milton straightened against the table and tried to reassemble himself. "You think you can walk in h
Chapter 117: The Door Opens
Milton's head snapped toward it and the two bodyguards still standing moved instinctively, hands reaching, bodies turning. The man holding Denise's arms tightened his grip. The one against the wall with the ice pack straightened.Logan stepped through the doorway.Ava came in behind him and stopped just inside the frame.The room absorbed the new situation in silence for about two seconds. Then Milton's expression moved through surprise and settled into something that looked, on the surface, like amusement."Well." He leaned back in his chair and looked at Ava with a slow, satisfied smile. "You came back." He let his eyes travel over her with deliberate, insulting patience. "I wasn't sure you would."Ava said nothing. She was looking at Denise, at the blood on her face and the way she was being held, and the expression she was wearing was not one Logan had seen from her often.Milton's eyes moved to Logan. The amusement dimmed slightly. "And who is this?"Logan walked into the room wi
Chapter 116: The Recalibration
The three men looked at Logan with the particular caution of people who had just watched something that didn't match their expectations and were deciding how to revise them.Logan had already revised his own assessment of the situation. The way their jackets sat. The slight bulk at the hip on two of them, the shoulder on the third. He had three seconds before the recalibration ended and instinct took over, and instinct for men like these meant reaching for what was underneath the jacket.He turned his head toward Ava without taking his eyes fully off the three men. "Get behind that wall. Now."She didn't argue. He heard her heels on the asphalt moving toward the building's edge protrusion, and then he was already moving.He closed the distance on the nearest man before the reach happened, driving his elbow into the man's jaw with the full momentum of his body behind it. The man's head snapped sideways and he went down. Logan caught his jacket on the way, found the weapon at his hip, a
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