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CHAPTER SEVENTY-FIVEThe rickety mining bridge groaned under their combined weight like a dying animal as Declan, Zara, and Elena staggered across its weathered planks. Below, the ravine plunged into absolute darkness, a sheer drop lined with jagged rocks and rushing water that roared like distant thunder. Stefan’s limp body dragged between Declan and Zara, his blood leaving a slick trail that made every step treacherous.Gunfire chased them relentlessly. A Consortium bullet punched through the wooden railing inches from Declan’s head, sending splinters exploding into his face. He tasted blood on his lips and kept moving.“Faster!” Elena shouted, firing blindly behind them with her pistol. One round found its mark—a Veil operative who had just crested the ridge exploded backward in a spray of crimson, his body tumbling over the edge and vanishing into the abyss with a fading scream.But the enemy was everywhere.A Veil soldier vaulted onto the far end of the bridge, submachine gun cha
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CHAPTER SEVENTY-FOURBullets shredded the air like angry hornets, tearing bark from ancient oaks and kicking up fountains of dirt at their feet. Declan’s heart slammed against his ribs as he shoved Zara behind a moss-covered boulder, the folder digging into his chest like a live grenade. Elena rolled in beside them, her pistol barking twice in quick succession. One Veil operative spun backward with a guttural cry, his masked face exploding in a spray of red before he hit the ground.“Move!” Elena snarled, yanking Declan’s collar. “The helicopter’s dropping more!”The downdraft from the hovering chopper whipped the forest into a maelstrom of flying leaves and snapping branches. Ropes uncoiled from its belly, and black-clad Veil soldiers fast-roped down like spiders descending on prey. Their suppressed rifles coughed death in controlled bursts, pinning Viktor’s survivors behind a cluster of fallen logs.Viktor himself roared like a wounded bear, blood streaming from his shoulder wound.
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CHAPTER SEVENTY-THREEThe forest seemed to inhale, holding its breath as Elena’s words hung in the chilled night air. Declan stood frozen between the fallen log and the woman who claimed to be his mother, the folder clutched so tightly his knuckles ached. Viktor’s remaining men shifted uneasily, their weapons half-lowered, caught between loyalty to their boss and the sudden appearance of a ghost from the past.Elena’s hood slipped back just enough to reveal sharp cheekbones and eyes the exact shade of Declan’s own—cold steel with flecks of green that had haunted his childhood memories in faded photographs. She looked older than the images, etched by years in hiding, but the posture was unmistakable: regal, unyielding, dangerous.“Elena,” Viktor spat, his pistol still trained on her chest. “You’ve got balls showing your face after you sold out half the network and vanished. Elias has a price on your head bigger than the national debt.”She smiled, thin and razor-sharp. “And yet here I
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CHAPTER SEVENTY-TWOThe stolen pickup rattled down the narrow service road, its engine coughing like a dying man. Declan kept the headlights off, navigating by the faint silver glow of the moon that sliced through the overhanging branches. Every bump sent fresh jolts of pain through his grazed arm, but he clenched his teeth and pushed the truck harder. Behind them, the distant roar of pursuing engines grew louder, closing the gap like hungry wolves.Zara gripped the dashboard, her knuckles white. “They’re gaining. We can’t outrun them in this rust bucket.”“Watch Stefan,” Declan snapped, eyes locked on the road ahead. The folder lay heavy on the seat between them, its secrets burning a hole in his resolve. “He’s slipping. If we lose him now, everything falls apart.”From the truck bed, Stefan let out a weak groan under the tarp. “Boy… your mother… she wasn’t just running from Elias. She was running to something bigger. The Consortium.”Declan’s head snapped toward the rearview mirror.
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CHAPTER SEVENTY-ONEDeclan dropped back through the grate, landing with a muted thud that echoed through the damp chamber. His arm burned where the bullet had grazed him, but he ignored the pain, focusing instead on the two faces staring up at him from the shadows.Zara rose instantly, eyes widening at the fresh blood on his sleeve. “You’re hurt.”“It’s nothing,” he muttered, pressing the wound with his palm. “Just a scratch.”Stefan’s breathing had grown shallower, each inhale a labored rasp. “Did you… leave it?”Declan shook his head, pulling the real folder from his jacket. The decoy was gone, taken by the stranger in the night, but the true prize remained pressed against his ribs like a live wire. “No. Someone else did. And he knew too much.”Zara helped him tear another strip from Stefan’s shirt to bind the graze. Her hands were steady despite the tremor in her voice. “What happened out there?”“He was waiting. Professional. No lights, no noise. I swapped the envelopes, but he di
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CHAPTER SEVENTYDeclan stared at the burner screen until the glow burned spots into his retinas. Five minutes. The words felt heavier than the concrete pressing in around them.He thumbed the power button. The phone went dark.Zara watched him, reading the shift in his posture before he even spoke. “What did it say?”“Someone knows we’re here,” he said, keeping his voice below a whisper. “Knows the culvert. Wants the folder left at the east exit. Five minutes or they unleash the bounty hunters themselves.”Stefan coughed wetly. “Your father’s people?”“Maybe.” Declan’s jaw tightened. “Or someone playing both sides. The message says my father wants me alive. That part feels true. The rest… I don’t know.”Zara’s eyes flicked toward the faint moonlight leaking through the grate. “If we leave the folder, we lose everything. If we don’t, they come down here and take it anyway.”Declan nodded once. “We buy time.”He crawled to the far end of the junction chamber, where the pipe continued ea
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