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CHAPTER 103 PART 2
Dante lowered his paddle and let the room breathe. He met Lorenzo's wild stare and gave him a small, almost kind nod. Then he leaned back."One hundred million, going once." Mr. Sterling raised his gavel. "Going twice. Sold, to Mr. De Luca."Lorenzo burst into laughter. He stood up and spread his arms like a king."Did you see that?" He turned to the crowd. "The great Moretti heir ran away! Even a dog knows when to put its tail between its legs!"A few of his friends clapped nervously.Then a slim woman in a charcoal suit stepped onto the stage. She held a tablet and wore the badge of the auction's finance office."Excuse me, Mr. Sterling." Her voice was calm and cold. "I am Helen Marsh, financial director. We have a problem with the last sale.""Problem?" Lorenzo snapped. "What problem?""The De Luca family has not provided the required proof of funds for a bid of this size." Helen's eyes did not move from the tablet. "The limit on file is sixty million."The ballroom fell silent."T
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The day of the Golden Auction arrived with flashing cameras and a red carpet that stretched a full city block. Television hosts shouted into microphones. Celebrities waved at the crowd. Billionaire families stepped out of black cars in jewels that caught the sun.Inside the grand ballroom, chandeliers hung like frozen fireworks. Quiet figures sat in the corners, men and women with calm faces and eyes that glowed faintly when the lights dimmed. Representatives from secret factions, hiding in plain sight.Dante walked in with Vittorio on his left and Lyra on his right. Heads turned."Is that the Moretti boy?" A woman in pearls whispered behind her glass. "The one whose wife left him?""Disgraced husband." Her friend sniffed. "I cannot believe they gave him a seat.""He must have paid someone." The woman smirked. "Or begged."Vittorio glanced at Dante. "Ignore them.""I stopped hearing them years ago." Dante took his seat in the front row. His face stayed calm.They remember a man who lo
CHAPTER 102 PART 2
"Holloway ambushed us on the highway. The truck was destroyed. The weapons, the antivenom, the coins, all of it went up in a fireball."Mercer stared at him for three full seconds. His face went through confusion, disbelief, and finally a slow curdling anger."You lost everything." His voice dropped to a growl."Not everything." Sean reached into his jacket and pulled out the black gold card. "The casino gave me this. Permanent VIP access to the Blackstone market. It gives an eighty eight percent discount on all purchases."Mercer's eyebrows jumped. "Eighty eight percent?""And the antidotes were locked in the truck's safe. I'm hoping the steel survived. We can dig them out after the snow melts."Mercer rubbed his face with both hands. Before he could answer, a stiff voice cut across the courtyard."This is exactly what I warned about, Colonel."Major Brenner marched out of the command building with his chin raised and his boots stamping on the frozen ground. He was a tall, narrow man
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Holloway stood perfectly still in the middle of the ruined highway with his head tilted like a wolf listening to a rabbit breathe. His men waited behind him, afraid to make a sound."There." His voice was a low rasp as he pointed at a patch of snow forty meters to the left. "Something moved under there. I heard a shovel scrape against ice."Night Lion squinted at the empty white ground. "Boss, I don't hear anything.""That's why I'm the boss." Holloway snatched the heavy machine gun from the nearest gunner and swung the barrel toward the spot. "Move."The gun roared and tore the snow apart in a long thundering burst. Ice chips flew into the air like glittering knives, and the ground shook with every round.Ten meters below, Sean felt the bullets chew through the roof of his tunnel. A shower of frozen debris rained across his shoulders, and he threw himself flat against the wall.Good ears. I'll give him that.He pulled a handful of electronic detonators from his dimension and pressed
CHAPTER 101 PART 2
The ridge erupted. Rockets screamed across the highway and slammed into the empty road where the truck had stood. Machine guns chewed through the snow in long thunderous bursts, and snipers poured rounds into every shadow.The explosions were so loud that the ground shook, and a fireball rolled into the sky.Holloway stood in the middle of it, laughing like a madman, his arms spread wide. "That's what happens to rats who bite the hand that feeds them! Burn it all!"Beneath three feet of powder, Sean crawled through the snow toward a faint heat signature. His fingers found a gloved hand, and he dragged Mara down into a pocket of packed ice.She spat snow and glared at him, her braid coming loose, her cheeks flushed red with cold and fury."You threw me." Her voice shook with anger. "Like a bag of laundry. Into a snowbank.""You're welcome." Sean brushed ice from her shoulder. "You'd rather I left you standing in front of thirty six snipers?"Mara opened her mouth to argue, then closed
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Forty two red dots crawled across the windshield like a swarm of angry insects. They climbed the glass, slid over the hood, and settled on Sean's chest and Mara's forehead."Two heavy machine guns on the north ridge." Mara's voice was low and tight, her eyes tracking the dots without moving her head. "Six rocket launchers spread across the snowmobiles. And thirty six snipers on the banks."Her knuckles were white on the steering wheel, and her jaw was clenched hard enough to crack a walnut."Forty two shooters for two people." Sean tilted his head and counted the dots like a man counting change. "Holloway really does love me."Sean looked at the truck's armor, the blast vests in the back, the helmets on the seat. None of it would last ten seconds against that much firepower. The cargo bed was packed with grenades and ammunition, and one rocket would turn the whole truck into a fireball.Hide in the dimension and I come out facing the same snipers. Show the dimension and I'm dead anywa
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