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Chapter 33
The second treasure was finally in their hands. Amanda carried it carefully, wrapped in layers of protective cloth and sealed inside a reinforced case. It looked like nothing special from the outside, but both of them knew better. Whatever ancient force had created it had also given it weight, real, emotional weight. The kind that changed lives.They didn’t speak much on the ride back. Benjamin sat in the passenger seat, eyes scanning the city streets through the tinted windows of their rented car. The radio was off. The hum of tires against asphalt was the only sound between them.Amanda finally broke the silence. “That felt different.”Benjamin didn't look at her. “Because it was.”Amanda tightened her grip on the steering wheel. “Do you think they’ll come after us again?”“They’re already on their way.” Benjamin’s voice was low but certain. “The moment we touched that vault, alarms were triggered, not just the physical ones. The ones that reach deep into the world we’ve barely beg
Chapter 32
The air inside the hidden vault chamber was thick with tension. Benjamin Moore stood still, shoulders taut, his sharp eyes scanning the silent, high-tech corridor before them. Amanda Williams, just a pace behind, adjusted her glasses and whispered, "Are you sure this is the place?"Benjamin nodded once. "The coordinates matched the map from the historian. But we’re not alone."The vault was unlike anything Amanda had expected. Built deep beneath an abandoned government building, it resembled a fusion of ancient catacombs and ultra-modern security tech. The walls were lined with reinforced steel embedded with symbols that pulsed faintly like veins of light sneaking through rock. As they advanced, Amanda noticed something peculiar. Small etchings carved along the metallic floor tiles, almost like a language. She knelt, brushing her fingers over the pattern."These symbols... they weren’t mentioned by the historian," she murmured.Benjamin’s eyes narrowed. "That’s because he only told
Chapter 31
The city didn't sleep. Not really. Especially not in the older parts where time seemed to move differently and everything had a shadow, even in the dark. Benjamin and Amanda found themselves in a narrow alleyway in a part of town that smelled like old books, wet stone, and secrets. Vieux Marché was the kind of place that wasn’t listed on maps, but everyone who mattered knew about it. They stood in front of a heavy iron door. It was weathered, with strange symbols etched into the metal—symbols that shimmered faintly under the flickering lanterns above them.Amanda looked uncertain. She tugged the scarf around her neck a little tighter and glanced at Benjamin. “You sure this is the place?” she asked, voice low.Benjamin didn’t answer right away. He stared at the door, his eyes tracing the glowing symbols like he was reading something only he understood.“Yeah,” he said finally. “It’s the kind of place where secrets are sold, and people disappear.”Before Amanda could ask anything else
Chapter 30
“I swear,” Amanda muttered, side-eyeing the worn brick walls pressing in on them, “if we end up in another dusty crypt, I'm filing an official complaint. With someone. Somewhere.” Benjamin didn’t slow down. “It’s not a crypt. It’s a reading room.”“A reading room? This feels like the prequel to a horror movie.” They were halfway down an unmarked alley behind an antiquarian bookstore in the heart of the old city. It was late afternoon, but here, the shadows came early. The alley turned sharply into a corridor made of aged timber, its forgotten whispers echoing through the space. At the far end stood a heavy, iron-bound door. No handle. No bell. Just an inscription etched above the frame. What is kept must be earned. Amanda exhaled sharply. “That’s not ominous at all.”Benjamin stepped forward and knocked. Once. Twice. Once again. A beat passed. Then a fourth knock, quick and sharp. A pause. Then a soft mechanical click.The door creaked open. “Remind me again,” Amanda whispered
Chapter 29
Word of the restaurant incident traveled faster than wildfire. By morning, the news had filtered through the marble corridors of the city's elite. Shared in whispers at golf courses, murmured at private dinners, and dissected in encrypted group chats that never mentioned names outright but always knew precisely whom they were discussing. Diego Rivera had been humiliated Not just bruised or threatened but publicly dismantled by a man no one recognized, and that made it was. To the uninitiated, it wasn't just a brawl between young men with too much pride. But Rhod,e who understood the game, the ones who dealt in blood-stained money and silent power. At the Rivera estate, chaos reigned behind the wrought iron gates and rose gardens. Don Antonio Rivera, the Mafia Boss of the East, was livid.His face, usually unreadable, was twisted with fury as he paced the sitting room of his private villa. Servants were dismissed. Bodyguards stationed at every exit. His son, bruised and hunched o
CHAPTER 28
Diego's sneer twisted into a full scowl as Benjamin took a quiet, deliberate step forward. “Teach this trash a lesson,” Diego snapped, waving a hand towards his bodyguards Two of them stepped forward without hesitation, towering figures in black suits. They looked more like small mountains than men. Expressionless, built like tanks, trained to end a confrontation in under a minute. One cracked his knuckles. The other tightened his gloves, eyes locked on Benjamin as if sizing him for a grave. The restaurant fell silent. Plates and cutleries stopped clinking. Conversations died. People leaned back in their seats, slowly, nervously trying to put distance between themselves and the incoming storm. Benjamin stood still.To the casual observer, he looked like a man resigned to his fate. His shoulders relaxed, his hands loose at his sides. But something about his stillness was unsettling. There was no fear in his eyes. No panic. Only calculations. Emily felt her breath catch in her thr
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