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CHAPTER 310 PART 3
Sheridan Isolde's available options reduced to one. He opened his mouth to deploy it."My father is Cornelius Isolde." His voice shook with the desperate energy of a man playing his final card and knowing it was the only one left in his hand. "He is the head of the Isolde family. He controls the Northern Commerce Federation. He sits on the board of the Grayson City Development Authority. He will burn this city to the ground to protect his son, and every single person who participated in tonight will be found, identified, and dealt with in ways that make what I did to your restaurant look like a children's birthday party."Marcus paused at the door. He turned back with the thoughtful expression of a man who had just heard something that deserved acknowledgment."Cornelius Isolde." Marcus repeated the name slowly, rolling it across his tongue like wine he was evaluating. "The head of the Isolde family. The Northern Commerce Federation. The Development Authority."He looked at Sheridan o
CHAPTER 310 PART 2
Sheridan's scream was higher this time. His body curled into itself on the carpet with the involuntary contraction of a man whose nervous system had overridden every other function."That was for Anna." Sergei crouched beside him and looked at his face with the clinical attention of a chef inspecting something that had not turned out the way the recipe intended. "You sent men to break my legs tonight. You sent trucks to kill me on the road. And now you're lying on the floor of a hotel room offering me money like I'm a cockroach you can buy off with sugar water.""The Isolde family will destroy you!" Sheridan's voice came out wet and desperate, the sound of a man reaching for the last weapon in his inventory. "My father has people in the police department, in city hall, in every boardroom that matters. You can break every bone in my body and it won't change what happens next. The Isolde name protects me. It has always protected me. You are nothing. You are a prawn cook from Meridian St
CHAPTER 310 PART 1
Sheridan Isolde had checked the corridor twenty minutes ago. Four bodyguards. Two on each side of the door, positioned exactly where he had placed them before making the call to his driver.The corridor was now empty except for Sergei Harris.Sheridan stared at him through the open doorway with the frozen expression of a man whose security infrastructure had just evaporated without producing a single sound he could hear through the walls. His bandaged hands gripped the armrests of his chair, the fork wounds from Marcus Steel's dinner table still healing beneath the gauze.He grabbed his phone. No signal. He snatched the phone from the nightstand where one of the two women in the suite had left it charging. No signal. He looked at the second woman's phone on the coffee table. No signal."Get out." Sheridan's voice cracked as he waved at the two women without looking at them. "Both of you. Leave. Now."The women moved fast. They gathered their things with the efficient speed of people w
CHAPTER 309 PART 2
Quinn stood three feet from Anna with her arms at her sides and her face showing the controlled mask that Marcus had seen her wear through board meetings, family confrontations, and corporate ambushes without a single crack appearing in its surface.She looked at Anna on the floor. She looked at Sergei behind the bar. She looked at Parveen Carmichael sitting against the wall with the contents of his confession still hanging in the air like smoke.Then Quinn Hartford turned and walked toward Marcus Steel and dropped to her knees in front of him.The room stopped breathing.Aron Jackson's men, positioned at every exit, went rigid. Aron Jackson himself took a half step forward and then stopped, his face carrying the expression of a man who was watching something he had never expected to witness and was not certain how to process.Dominating Tiger pressed his back against the kitchen wall and made himself as small as a man his size could make himself. Sergei Harris gripped the bar counter
CHAPTER 309
Parveen Carmichael's mouth kept moving because his mouth was the only thing keeping him alive, and he understood this with the clarity of a man whose survival instinct had completely overridden his loyalty, his pride, and every other consideration that had existed in his personality before tonight."The restaurant was never the real job." Parveen's voice came out thick through his swollen lips, the words tumbling over each other with the urgency of a man emptying a bag before someone took it from him. "Isolde didn't care about the building. He didn't care about the tables or the kitchen or the lease. The restaurant was bait. It was supposed to force Sergei Harris out onto the street. Out of the building and into a car or onto the sidewalk. Moving. That's all Isolde needed. He needed him moving."Anna Harris leaned forward in her wheelchair. Her injured arm was pressed against her body and her good hand gripped the armrest with the white knuckled intensity of a woman who could feel the
CHAPTER 308 PART 2
"I'll handle it personally." Dominating Tiger stepped forward and pulled a knife from inside his jacket with the smooth motion of a man who had made this specific gesture hundreds of times. "As an organizational gesture. To demonstrate that my people do not engage in unauthorized operations against businesses under protection."He moved toward Parveen with the focused intention of a man who had decided that killing this problem was faster and cleaner than explaining it."Stop."Marcus's voice crossed the room and Dominating Tiger's feet stopped moving the way a dog stops moving when it hears a command it has been conditioned to obey.The knife stayed in his hand but his arm dropped to his side and his body went still.Marcus walked toward Parveen Carmichael with his hands in his pockets and crouched in front of him with the easy balance of a man who was comfortable at any height. He looked at Parveen's swollen face with the genuine curiosity of someone who had a question that mattered
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