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Chasing Shadows
Dane burst through the back door. The hallway beyond was narrow and dimly lit. Wires dangled from the ceiling, and debris was scattered across the floor. Leo was already moving, limping slightly but fast enough to stay ahead. “Don’t slow down!” Dane shouted, keeping his gun trained on him. The sound of distant gunfire echoed behind them. Some of Leo’s men had regrouped and were trying to cut off their escape. Dane dove to the side as a bullet slammed into the wall inches from his head. He rolled forward, keeping pace with Leo, and fired back, dropping one of the men lining up a shot. Leo glanced over his shoulder, panic flickering in his eyes. “You think you can catch me?” “You’re not going anywhere,” Dane growled. Leo crashed into a storage room, kicking crates aside. Dane followed immediately and ducked behind a stack of boxes as Leo grabbed a nearby pipe and raised it as a weapon. Dane’s finger tightened on the trigger. BOOM! A single shot rang out. Leo stumbled, the pipe t
Blast
“Well, you all think you have control,” he said, his eyes moving from one trigger finger to the next. “But none of you is ready to pull the trigger. Because I’m watching every single one of you closely. The moment any of you fires… Leo dies too.” The room went still. No one blinked. No one breathed too loudly. One of the men tightened his grip on his rifle. Dane noticed immediately. “Easy,” Dane said. “Your finger’s shaking.” The man froze. Leo let out a slow breath through his nose. “You always were good at reading people.” Dane took one slow step forward. The guns followed him. “Stay where you are!” one of them shouted. Dane stopped. “Look at yourselves,” Dane said. “Seven men. Seven guns. And not one of you wants to be the first to pull the trigger. Because whoever does… is the one who starts the war in this room.” Dane’s jaw tightened as the men closed in, their boots scraping softly against the floor. The circle around him shrank. Every barrel tracked his movement. H
Shards
Dane kept one hand moving, slow and steady.Every door along the corridor looked the same. Heavy. Silent. Waiting.“You don’t kick doors blindly,” he muttered. “That’s how you die.”He stopped in front of a larger one at the end of the hall.Thicker steel. Reinforced frame.Important.Dane pressed his ear to it.Movement.Breathing.Voices.“This is it,” he whispered.Then he stepped back.And kicked.BOOM!The door blasted inward.Smoke and dust rolled across the room.Seven men spun around, guns rising in perfect unison.At the center of the room, tied to a chair, sat Leo.His arm was wrapped in blood-soaked bandages. His face was pale, but his eyes were still sharp.“Drop your weapon!” one of Leo’s men shouted. “Or we kill him right now!”Dane didn’t lower the gun.“You shoot him,” Dane said calmly, “and you die right after. Every one of you.”The men hesitated.Leo smiled.“Well, well, well,” he said. “If it isn’t Dane. We meet again.”Dane stepped into the room, gun still raised.
Exhausted
Dane kept climbing.Every step burned. His lungs dragged in smoke and dust with each breath. The building groaned around him, wounded from explosions and gunfire, its bones cracked and trembling.The stairwell finally opened.A long corridor stretched ahead, silent and empty. Emergency lights flickered along the walls, casting shadows that crawled like living things. Smoke drifted in slow waves across the floor.No guards.No movement.Too quiet.Two paths split ahead.Left.Right.Dane slowed, scanning both directions. His fingers tightened around his rifle.“Top floor,” he muttered. “It has to be.”He took three steps forward.A shape moved at the far end of the hall.A man stepped into the light.Their eyes met.The man’s hand dropped to his vest.The pin came out.A grenade sailed through the air.Dane reacted on instinct.He sprinted forward, boots pounding, launched himself into the air, and caught the grenade just as it began to spark.For a split second, time froze.Then he tw
HellFire corridor
Dane burst into the building through the smoke, gunfire cracking around him. Blood streaked the marble floor. Men shouted. Alarms wailed.He dropped his duffel and ripped it open.Smoke grenades.One after another, he hurled them across the lobby.Hissssss—White clouds exploded outward, swallowing the room. Visibility vanished. Shapes blurred. Shadows ran.“Where is he?!”Gunfire ripped blindly through the smoke.Dane moved.Low. Fast. Silent.A man rushed through the fog.Dane fired.The man collapsed.Two more came down the staircase leading to the entrance, weapons raised.Boom.Boom.They tumbled down the steps, lifeless.A muzzle flash flared from above.Someone on the upper floor.Dane rolled across the floor as bullets tore into the wall where he’d been standing. He came up on one knee, aimed through the smoke, and fired.The body dropped from the balcony and slammed onto the marble below.Dane didn’t slow.He sprinted deeper into the mansion.Three men in suits rushed from a
Blackout
The vault lights hummed as Dane stepped inside.Rows of weapons gleamed under white LEDs. Heavy cases lined the walls. Armor rigs hung like soldiers waiting to be called to war.Garrett folded his arms, watching.“Take what you need,” he said. “But choose fast. Word travels quickly in this city.”Dane moved down the aisle, eyes scanning. He didn’t rush. He never rushed. Every choice mattered.He picked up a rifle, tested the weight. Set it down.A shotgun. Too loud.A compact carbine. Balanced. Clean.He nodded.Then a sidearm. Sleek. Reliable.A vest. Lightweight. Flexible.Garrett stepped closer. “You’re going after Leo’s quarter, aren’t you?”Dane didn’t answer at first. He checked a magazine, slid it into a pouch, then looked up.“Tonight,” he said.Garrett exhaled slowly. “That place is a fortress.”“Fortresses fall.”Garrett smirked. “You sound like Butcher.”Dane finished strapping the vest, rolled his shoulders, and grabbed a black duffel from the rack.“Where’s the exit?”Gar
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