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The Mid-Level Architect
Author: Neil Swann
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Chapter 43: The Mid-Level Architect

"Bigger fish?" Amara leaned hard against the freezing brick wall, her breath pluming in the damp alley air as the distant wails of corporate security alarms echoed off the glass facades above them. "Jianro, we are running on fumes, a cracked burner phone, and pure desperation. What kind of fish could possibly distract a corporate hitman who has an entire private security battalion at his beck and call?"

"Not a fish," Jianro muttered, his eyes glued to the amb
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