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Chapter 108
Chapter 108. The Train to Nowhere"Returning the favor!"She braced one combat boot against the door frame, leaning out into the driving rain with a compact submachine gun she had scavenged from the estate's armory. The pursuing SUV loomed large in the headlights, its windshield reflecting the harsh glare of their own high beams."Don't shoot the engine block!" Max yelled, leaning across the console to grab her belt. "We need them to crash into something else, not stall out behind us!""I'm aiming for the tires, Max! Have a little faith!" Arabella shouted back, her dark hair plastered across her face by the gale-force wind and pouring rain.She squeezed the trigger. A sharp, stuttering roar cut through the storm as a string of muzzle flashes lit up the dark highway. Sparks erupted from the front-left wheel arch of the trailing SUV. The heavy vehicle instantly lost traction, veering sideways across both lanes of traffic with a screech of tortured rubber. It slammed sideways into a conc
Chapter 107
Chapter 107: The Platform at Gambir"I'm going as fast as the road allows!" the watchman shrieked back, wrestling the steering wheel as the sedan fishtailed violently on the slick asphalt of the provincial highway. "You want to drive, mister billionaire? Be my guest!""I'm not a billionaire anymore!" Max shouted, his hands gripping the frayed upholstery of the front seat as another burst of gunfire punched a neat row of holes through the passenger door. "And keep your eyes on the road!""Your financial status is deeply fascinating, but can we focus on the guys trying to turn us into Swiss cheese?" Arabella asked, sliding across the wet leather bench and kicking open the rear passenger door."What are you doing?" Max yelled above the screaming wind."Returning the favor!"She braced one combat boot against the door frame, leaning out into the driving rain with a compact submachine gun she had scavenged from the estate's armory. The pursuing SUV loomed large in the headlights, its winds
Chapter 106
Chapter 106: The Dawn We Own"Get down!" the watchman yelled in Indonesian, his voice cracking with panic as he stomped the accelerator, spinning the sedan's rear tires deep into the mud of the Bogor estate's perimeter road.Max threw himself across the back seat, dragging Arabella down beside him just as a volley of automatic gunfire chewed through the rear windshield. Shards of safety glass exploded inward, raining tiny, crystalline cubes over their soaked shoulders."Not bad for a night watchman," Arabella shouted over the roar of the engine and the relentless drumming of tropical rain on the roof, wiping a streak of blood from her cheek where a glass shard had grazed her. "Does he know how to drive, or are we dying in a ditch after all?""Ask him yourself!" Max yelled, popping up slightly to check the side mirror. Another black SUV was barreling out of the estate gates behind them, high beams cutting aggressively through the dense sheets of rain. "Faster! They're right on our tail
Chapter 105
Chapter 105: The Platform at Gambir"They're alive," Max snapped, grabbing her by the tactical webbing of her vest and hauling her through a side door just as a massive section of the ceiling collapsed with a thunderous roar of splintering timber and shattering glass. "Because I paid them twice as much as Lucius ever offered. Move, Arabella!"They burst out of the burning Bogor estate into the cool, damp night air, the torrential tropical rain instantly hissing against their heated skin and soaking their clothes to the bone. The downpour washed away the soot and ash, but the sharp smell of burning millions still clung to their hair and jackets. Max didn't slow down, dragging her across the muddy gravel driveway toward a battered black sedan idling near the tree line.The driver's door pushed open, revealing the wide, terrified eyes of the watchman Max had compromised weeks ago. The man slammed the gearshift into drive before they even slammed the back doors shut."Get down!" the watch
Chapter 104
Chapter 104. The Platform at Gambir"We still have to get out of the estate," Arabella reminded him, her voice cutting sharply through the rising roar of the flames as the mahogany paneling crackled, sending up a dense, oily black plume that choked the upper foyer. "And unless you plan on growing wings out of the ashes, Max, your poetic exit is going to end with us coughing our lungs out in a police van.""The service gate on the western perimeter," Max coughed, shielding his face with a soot-stained forearm as a superheated gust of wind slammed against them, pushing the fire outward. "It's clear. I bribed the night watchman three weeks ago when we first scoped the grounds. He thinks we're just contractors leaving late.""Your faith in bribed watchmen is touching," Arabella muttered, her tactical boots sliding on the polished stone as she ducked beneath a falling sconce of molten brass. "Especially considering half of them are probably already on Lucius's payroll or dead in a ditch."
Chapter 103
Chapter 103. The Smoke That Clears the Sky"We died the moment Lucius pulled the trigger on that first warehouse ambush," Max said, his thumb flicking the striker of a heavy brass lighter. A spark caught the vapor, and a wall of bright orange flame erupted along the mahogany baseboards, instantly swallowing the base of the imported Italian marble pillars. "And ghosts don't need a corporate portfolio."Arabella didn't flinch as the heat washed over her face, though she instinctively stepped back, her tactical boots crunching on charred drywall dust. "You're insane. You realize that, right? Absolute, textbook insanity.""Call it what you want," Max replied, tossing the empty canister into the spreading fire. The plastic melted with a sharp, chemical hiss, feeding the growing inferno. "Look at the flames. They're taking every single share certificate, every dummy corporation, every offshore paper trail Lucius spent a decade building. Move. The smoke's hitting the upper vents.""We still
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