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CHAPTER 369
The room went quiet. Logan stood near the window with his arms at his sides, watching Daniel the way a man watches water rising against a wall, measuring how much time remains before it breaks through."Fear kept you alive." Logan's voice carried no judgment. "But it also kept the people who did this safe. Every day you stayed silent was another day they didn't have to worry about anyone finding the truth."Daniel looked up at him. Something shifted behind his eyes. The fear was still there, enormous and familiar, but beside it was something newer. The exhaustion of a man who had spent so long carrying a secret that the weight of holding it had become worse than the danger of letting it go."I have copies." Daniel swallowed hard. "The original records. Before they were changed. I copied them the night before the second employee disappeared because I could feel what was coming. I stored them in an old facility on the east side of the city. A storage unit registered under a name that no
CHAPTER 368
The plaster dust was still settling when Logan crouched beside the bullet hole in the wall. He pressed two fingers against the edge of the impact and studied the angle the way a surgeon studies an incision before deciding whether to cut deeper."Whoever took that shot had a clear line." Logan straightened up and looked toward the rooftop across the street. "From that position, at that distance, a trained shooter doesn't miss. Not by that much. Not unless missing was the entire point."Daniel was still sitting on the floor with his back against the wall and his hands pressed flat against his knees. His breathing had not returned to normal. Every inhale came in short, shallow pulls, like a man trying to drink air through a straw that was already cracked."This isn't the first time." Daniel's voice was thin and broken. "They've done this before. Three times in the last four months. Once outside my apartment. Once at a gas station on the highway. Once through the window of a motel room I
CHAPTER 367
Logan arrived faster than she expected. The door opened and he stepped into the room the way a storm enters a valley. No hesitation. No pause. Just the immediate, complete awareness of a man who had already measured every threat in the room before his second foot crossed the threshold.The nearest attacker turned toward him. Logan caught his wrist, twisted it behind his back, and stripped the weapon from his hand in a single motion that lasted less than two seconds. The man hit the floor and stayed there.The second attacker released Daniel and rushed Logan with both hands aimed at his throat. Logan sidestepped, redirected the man's momentum into the wall, and dropped him with a controlled strike that ended the fight before it properly began.The third man tried to drag Daniel through the side exit. Logan crossed the room in three steps, caught the man by his collar, and pulled him backward hard enough to separate him from Daniel entirely. The attacker turned and fought with the despe
CHAPTER 366
Hayley did not walk away.She stood on the sidewalk with the traffic moving behind her and the afternoon sun cutting between the buildings, and she watched Daniel Rowe's back as he tried to disappear into the crowd like a man who had practiced vanishing so many times it had become a reflex instead of a decision."You don't get to tell me to leave and then run." Hayley caught up with him in four steps and grabbed his arm. Her voice was low enough to stay between them but sharp enough to make the woman walking past glance sideways. "You disappeared for months. No call. No message. Nothing. I spent weeks wondering whether you were dead, and now you show up on a street corner looking like you haven't slept in a month and tell me to pretend I never saw you?"Daniel pulled his arm free. His eyes moved across the street, scanning every parked car, every window, every person standing still for too long. The fear in his body was not the kind that came from nervousness. It was the kind that had
CHAPTER 365
An hour later, one of Victor's men called in. Dominguez had gone straight to an abandoned warehouse on the industrial strip near the river. He had met a stranger inside and handed over a small drive. Victor's men moved in to intercept, but the stranger was faster. He set fire to the warehouse before they could reach him and disappeared through a service tunnel behind the building.By the time the fire was controlled, the drive was gone. Melted. Whatever had been on it was now ash and molten plastic.Logan and Victor arrived at the scene twenty minutes later. The warehouse was still smoking. Victor's men had secured the perimeter, but the stranger had vanished completely.Logan walked through the wreckage slowly. The fire had destroyed everything inside except the metal frame of the building and the heavy industrial door at the rear entrance. He stopped in front of the door and crouched.A symbol had been carved into the metal. It was small, roughly the size of a playing card, cut into
CHAPTER 364
One of the traitors, Dominguez, was on his knees near the storage racks. His face was swollen and his hands were bound behind his back. When Victor turned toward him, the defiance that had been in his eyes earlier was completely gone. In its place was the desperate terror of a man who had just realized that the rope he had been pulling on was attached to something much heavier than he could carry."Victor, please." Dominguez's voice cracked. "I made a mistake. Rafael told me you were losing control. He told me the network was falling apart and that the only way to survive was to get ahead of the collapse. I believed him. I was stupid. Please. Give me another chance."Victor stared at him. The silence stretched for five seconds. Ten. Fifteen. Long enough for Dominguez to start believing that the next sound he heard would be his own bones breaking."Get up." Victor's voice was flat. "Leave. Go home. Don't contact anyone in my network. Don't call anyone connected to Rafael. If I find out
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