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CHAPTER 324 PART 3
Miguel Abbott and Stanislaus Potter stood frozen. Austin Yarrow's weapon lowered slowly as his eyes moved between the massive man kneeling on the ground and Marcus Steel standing with his hands in his pockets, and the calculation on his face was the calculation of a man who was revising his understanding of his employer's husband in real time."Stand up, Marco." Marcus's voice was quiet and carried no judgment. "Tell me how you got here."Marco Montana rose to his feet. His eyes were wet. His hands were trembling, which was a sight that belonged to a different universe than the one where he had just thrown an armored car across an intersection."Ayden Woody's chain of command. He runs a network through a local figure here in Five-River Province. The orders came down through that channel. I was told to eliminate two financial targets connected to a man named Marcus Steel. I followed the command structure. I didn't question it because the command structure is the Alliance, and the Allia
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Austin Yarrow raised his weapon and aimed it at Marco Montana's forehead. His stance was textbook. His breathing was controlled. His finger rested on the trigger with the trained discipline of a man who understood the mechanics of the shot perfectly."That's adorable." Marco Montana looked at the gun the way a man looks at a child holding a stick. "Go ahead. Pull the trigger. I'll wait. It'll bounce off my forehead and you'll have wasted your last round on something that tickled."Stanislaus Potter reached into his jacket and pulled out his last communication device. A satellite phone that operated on a frequency independent of the jammed network. He pressed the call button. The screen lit up. The signal bar appeared. Then it disappeared."That one won't work either." Marco Montana watched him with the patient amusement of someone who had accounted for every variable before arriving. "The jamming covers everything. Satellite, cellular, shortwave. You're standing in a two block dead zo
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Marco Montana walked toward the overturned vehicle with the slow, heavy gait of a man who had spent his entire life being the largest person in every room he entered and had stopped adjusting his movement to accommodate other people's comfort approximately twenty years ago.His shoulders were wider than the car door. His arms hung at his sides like industrial equipment temporarily at rest.Each step cracked the asphalt beneath him with the casual destruction of someone whose body weight exceeded what road surfaces were engineered to handle on foot.A dart flew from the third floor window of the building on the left.One of the bodyguards positioned in the surrounding structures had fired on instinct the moment the car went over, and the projectile traveled toward Marco Montana's neck with the speed and accuracy of a trained operative's best effort.Marco caught it without looking. His left hand came up and closed around the dart the way a man catches a fly that has been buzzing near h
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It rolled sideways with a sound that was part metal, part glass, and part the specific noise that physics makes when it disagrees with the structural integrity of an object built to travel horizontally.The first roll crushed the passenger side roof against the asphalt. The second roll brought the vehicle to rest upside down in the center of the intersection, its headlights pointing at the sky, its undercarriage exposed like the belly of a dead animal.Inside, Austin Yarrow's training held. His body had locked into the correct position the moment the first tilt registered. His arms braced against the ceiling. His legs absorbed the rolling momentum. His head stayed tucked against his chest.Miguel Abbott was alive. His breathing was rapid and shallow and his hands were gripping the seat belt that had kept him from being thrown through the windshield. Blood ran from a cut on his forehead where something had struck him during the second rotation."Mr. Abbott." Austin's voice came out ste
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The first floor of the building erupted with a concussive blast that blew the corridor windows inward and sent a wall of heated air through the hallway like a fist made of pressure and noise.The lights went out. The emergency strips along the floor activated, casting thin red lines that turned the corridor into something that looked like the inside of a furnace."Gas line." Austin pulled both men toward the stairwell door. "That was deliberate. Someone blew the building's gas main to flush us toward the exits. Move. Now."They reached sublevel two in forty five seconds. Two armored vehicles sat in the emergency bay, engines cold but keys in the ignition. Austin put Miguel in the first vehicle and Stanislaus in the second. He took the wheel of the lead car and pulled out of the underground level into the street.The night air hit the windshield carrying the smell of smoke and something chemical that did not belong to a natural gas explosion.Austin reached for his phone. The screen sh
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Stanislaus Potter set his napkin on the table and leaned back in his chair with the satisfied expression of a man who had eaten well and was now preparing to think about something less pleasant than the food."He cancelled us, Miguel. That wasn't a tax compliance issue and we both know it."Miguel Abbott finished his wine and placed the glass on the white tablecloth with the careful precision of a man who agreed completely but wanted to hear the full theory before contributing to it. "Go on.""Marcus Steel cancelled us at the Hartford Group as a signal. We moved on Beacon Electronics shares without running it through him first. We made a decision that affected his territory without asking permission, and he reminded us, very politely, that permission is required." Stanislaus folded his arms and looked at the ceiling with the resigned acceptance of a man who had made a mistake and was now measuring the cost of correcting it."It wasn't impolite." Miguel allowed himself a small smile. "
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