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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
CHAPTER 363
Before Victor could respond, a sound came from the floor behind them. One of the captured men was laughing. Not the nervous laughter of someone afraid. The dry, cracked laughter of a man who had already accepted what was coming and decided that silence was no longer worth the effort.Victor turned. The man was sitting against the warehouse wall with blood running from a cut above his eyebrow and a grin spread across his face like a stain that wouldn't wash out."You're too late." The man looked at Victor with the detached amusement of someone watching a dog chase its own tail. "Rafael already got his answer. Everything he needed to know, you gave him tonight without even realizing it."Victor crossed the warehouse in four steps. He grabbed the man by the collar and lifted him off the floor until his feet barely touched the concrete."What does Rafael want?" Victor's face was inches from the man's. The veins in his neck stood out like cables and his voice came from somewhere deep enoug
CHAPTER 362
"Personnel files. Financial authorizations. Access logs for a restricted section of the building that most employees didn't even know existed." Daniel looked at her. "One of the employees found the deletion. He started digging. He found a second set of records hidden behind the ones that had been erased. Records showing that someone had been using the restricted section for years without authorization.""And then he disappeared." Hayley's voice was flat."Both of them disappeared." Daniel nodded. "The first employee vanished three weeks after he started investigating. The second one found the same evidence two months later. She disappeared within days."Hayley's face went still. "The access card I found. The one from the old files."Daniel looked at her and nodded slowly. "That card belonged to one of them. It was used to enter the restricted section shortly before both employees disappeared. You weren't carrying an old company badge, Hayley. You were carrying evidence of what happene
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He came through the front entrance of the building without slowing down. The first man was dragging Daniel toward a side exit at the end of the hallway.Logan closed the distance in five steps, caught the man by the back of his collar, and pulled him off Daniel with enough force to send him into the wall. The man tried to turn and swing.Logan caught his wrist, twisted it inward, stripped a knife from his belt, and dropped him to the floor with a controlled strike to the side of his knee.The second man came from the stairwell. He was bigger than the first and moved with the trained precision of someone who had been taught to fight in enclosed spaces.Logan blocked his first strike, redirected his momentum into the wall, and drove his elbow into the base of the man's neck. The man dropped to his knees and didn't get up.The third man had Daniel by the arm and was pulling him toward the side exit. Logan reached them before the door opened. He caught the man's shoulder, spun him around,
CHAPTER 360
Hayley found Daniel standing beneath the awning of a closed hardware store on the east side of the city. He was thinner than the last time she had seen him, and the collar of his jacket was turned up against a wind that wasn't cold enough to justify it. He was hiding inside his own clothes."Where have you been?" Hayley stopped three feet from him. Her voice carried the kind of anger that only exists between people who once trusted each other. "You disappeared again. No call. No message. Nothing. You vanished like a rat crawling back into a hole the moment someone turns on the lights."Daniel looked left, then right, then behind her. His eyes moved across the street with the rapid calculation of a man who had been checking his surroundings long before this conversation started."Someone has been searching for me." Daniel's voice was low enough that Hayley had to step closer to hear it. "For months. The people looking for me are connected to the old Imperial records. The ones from year
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