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Chapter 126 – The Smoke Before the Fire
The night air in Lagos was heavy not with the usual humid weight, but with something else. Something invisible that seemed to coil around the city’s streets and rooftops like a predator waiting to strike. From the rooftop balcony of the safehouse, Chike could see the city’s neon pulse far below, its bright lights unable to disguise the darkness underneath.It had been three days since he and his team had pulled the latest batch of decrypted files from the Red Ledger’s hidden servers. Three days of piecing together fragments of corruption so deeply embedded in the country’s power structure that it almost seemed impossible to untangle. Almost.Inside, the conference room was lit only by the glow of the wall-sized monitor. Adaora stood close to it, scrolling through a map of bank transfers, shell corporations, and coded communications. Her face was tense, her eyes scanning faster than her hand could point.“This name,” she said, tapping a section of the display. “Dr. Omenka. He’s not jus
Chapter 125 – The Crimson Snare
The room felt too small for the storm brewing inside Chike’s mind.Every sound seemed louder, sharper the faint buzz of the overhead light, the ticking of the antique wall clock, the distant hum of the city outside. He stood by the wide window, his hands gripping the cold steel railing, watching the traffic snake its way through Lagos as if it were some living, breathing organism.The encrypted message he’d just received still glowed on the tablet screen behind him, its words burned into his mind:“Vault breach in motion. Contact compromised. You have less than twenty four hours before The Red Ledger acts.”He’d expected them to move eventually. He’d even prepared for it. But this… this was faster than any of his projections.Behind him, footsteps sounded soft but urgent. It was Adaora. She entered without knocking, her long coat billowing slightly as she shut the door and crossed the room. Her face carried that unshakable calm she wore like armor, but her eyes betrayed the weight sh
Chapter 123 – Shattered Glass and Silent Deals
The meeting had ended in an atmosphere so thick with unease it felt like smoke lingering in the air. Even after the last board member filed out, their perfume and cologne still clung faintly to the walls of the conference room, as though the room itself was holding its breath.Chike sat at the head of the polished mahogany table, the documents in front of him untouched since the argument’s final blow. The echoes of his voice calm but cutting still seemed to hum in the corners. A lesser man might have taken satisfaction in how the board avoided his gaze, but Chike wasn’t here for satisfaction. He was here for control.“Close the door,” he said without looking up.His assistant obeyed immediately, her heels clicking softly against the marble before the heavy door shut with a low thud. The sudden silence was almost too loud.Chike exhaled slowly, leaning back in the leather chair. From the wall to wall windows behind him, the city skyline glittered in defiance of the late hour, its traff
Chapter 123 – The Trap in the Shadows
The atmosphere inside the penthouse shifted the moment Chike stepped through the door. Every muscle in his body remained taut, his mind calculating a hundred possibilities at once. The encrypted message he had just intercepted on the Red Ledger’s dark communication channel replayed in his head, each word dripping with malice.Target secured. Extraction window: 11 minutes.It wasn’t a bluff. He knew the language they used this was operational, precise, and deadly.“Sir, we’ve swept the place twice,” Kelvin reported, emerging from the kitchen area. “Nothing unusual inside, but the perimeter…” He hesitated. “We caught movement at the southern rooftop access, but it vanished before we could engage.”Chike’s jaw tightened. “They’re already inside the building.”Zuri, who stood by the panoramic window, turned sharply. “How? The security grid”“was compromised the moment we stepped out this morning,” Chike interrupted. His voice was low but sharp. “They’ve been waiting for us to get comforta
Chapter 122 — Placeholder
The warehouse fell silent after Chike’s last words, the kind of silence that carried weight thick, oppressive, and charged with the kind of tension that made men’s hands tremble over the triggers of their guns. The faint hum of a flickering lightbulb buzzed overhead, its dim glow casting shadows that stretched like jagged claws across the cold, concrete floor.His opponent the man who had dared to block his path and throw down the gauntlet in front of the Crimson Vault operatives hadn’t moved. He stood there, jaw set, eyes narrowing, but Chike could see the pulse hammering in his neck. Fear. Even if the man thought he was hiding it, Chike could smell it in the air like the faint trace of rust and gun oil.“Are you going to step aside,” Chike said, voice low, almost conversational, “or do I have to remind you how I deal with obstacles?”No one moved. Even the air seemed to hold its breath. The men flanking the challenger exchanged uneasy glances, shifting slightly on their feet. It w
Chapter 121 – Web of Shadows
Chike’s hands tightened on the leather armrests as the dim conference room filled with the hum of the hidden projectors. Every wall around him shimmered to life, revealing not one, but a dozen live feeds grainy footage, satellite images, and data streams scrolling in multiple languages.The air was thick with tension. Even the faint mechanical whir of the air vents seemed muffled under the weight of what was being shown. On one screen, a slow motion video captured a convoy of unmarked armored trucks snaking along a fog choked mountain road. On another, intercepted audio distorted and overlapping carried fragments of a conversation in a code only a handful of people on earth could decipher.“Target shipment confirmed,” the System whispered in his ear. Coordinates locked. Risk assessment: extreme.Across the table, Adaora sat stiff backed, her eyes tracking every detail like a hawk. She didn’t speak, but Chike could tell from the faint tapping of her index finger against the tabletop th
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