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CHAPTER 304
Hayley stood in the middle of the back street with the metal stand still in her hands and her chest heaving. Daniel leaned against the van with his forearm pressed against his stomach to slow the bleeding.The unconscious man lay between them like evidence of something neither of them had signed up for."Why were you here?" Hayley's voice was raw, torn between gratitude and the kind of anger that comes from being rescued by someone who had been following you. "How did you know they were coming?"Daniel pressed his sleeve against the cut on his forehead. His face was pale beneath the blood, and his breathing was labored enough to suggest that the blow to his head had done more damage than he was willing to admit."Because I've been watching you." Daniel looked at her with the exhausted honesty of a man who was too tired to construct anything except the truth. "The access card you're carry
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Daniel Rowe landed behind the stocky man and drove his elbow into the back of his neck before the man knew anyone was above him.The impact buckled his knees. Daniel grabbed the collar of his jacket and threw him sideways into the van's rear panel. The metal dented. The man crumpled.The tall one turned. His surprise lasted half a second before training took over. He rushed Daniel with a straight punch aimed at the jaw.Daniel ducked under it, stepped inside the man's reach, and delivered two rapid strikes to his ribs. The tall man absorbed both hits and countered with an elbow that caught Daniel across the cheekbone. Daniel staggered but kept his footing."Go." Daniel looked at Hayley with blood already forming above his left eye. "Get inside the shop. Now."Hayley ran to the entrance of a small electronics repair shop on the corner. The door was unlocked.She pushed through it and pressed herself against the wall beside the window, watching the fight through the dusty glass.The sto
CHAPTER 302
Hayley pushed through the revolving doors of Imperial Group at seven forty five PM with her bag over her shoulder and her keys already in her hand.The building's emergency power had been restored an hour ago, but the atmosphere inside had remained tense enough to make the walls feel narrower than usual.Logan had disappeared without explanation. Richard was locked in his office making calls he wouldn't discuss.And the access card Hayley had found in her apartment was sitting inside a sealed envelope in Richard's desk drawer like a grenade with the pin already loosened.She crossed the parking garage, unlocked her car, and pulled out of the exit onto Lexington Avenue. The evening traffic was moderate, and the first two blocks passed without anything unusual.Then she checked her mirror.Two motorcycles. Black frames. Tinted visors. Both riders positioned three car lengths behind her, one in the left lane and one in the right. They had been there since the parking garage exit.Hayley
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He left. Margaret locked the door behind him and sat down in the hallway with her back against the wall and her hands pressed together to stop the shaking.Twelve minutes later, Logan's car pulled into her driveway.Two men were standing near the fence at the side of the house. They had been positioned there since Glenn's departure, watching the exits. Logan saw them before he reached the front door.The first one moved toward him from the left. Logan stepped into the movement, caught the man's outstretched arm at the wrist and elbow, and used his own momentum to drive him sideways into the brick wall. The impact was clean, controlled, and loud enough to make the second man freeze for half a second.That half second was all Logan needed.The second man reached inside his jacket. Logan closed the distance in two steps, grabbed the man's hand before it cleared the holster, and twisted it downward with enough pressure to force the weapon out of his grip. The gun hit the grass. The man lo
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Logan walked out of the conference room without looking at anyone. Richard called his name twice. Emma watched him cross the lobby without answering.The door closed behind him, and the silence he left in the room was heavier than anything he could have said.He didn't drive toward Imperial Group. He didn't drive toward Victor's territory or the Grant estate or any location connected to the crisis they had been managing for the last seventy two hours.He turned east.The residential street he arrived at twenty minutes later was quiet, narrow, and lined with brick apartment buildings that hadn't been renovated since the nineties.No corporate towers. No private clubs. No connection to any name, company, or organization that had appeared in a single report during the last three months.The streetlights cast yellow circles on the cracked sidewalk, and the only sound was the hum of an air conditioning unit hanging from a second floor window.Logan parked across the street and entered the
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He pulled a knife and lunged. Victor stepped sideways, caught Jerry's wrist, twisted it downward, and drove his knee into the man's stomach. Jerry doubled over. The knife hit the concrete floor. Cole stepped forward and pinned Jerry against the desk with one hand on the back of his neck."The money came through a financial meeting." Jerry coughed the words out while his face was pressed against the desk surface. "Twelve investors. Different names. Different companies. But they all spoke the same way. Like they were reading from the same script. The meeting was held at a private office on Ashbury Avenue. Third floor. Tuesday nights."Victor looked at Cole. Cole nodded.They attended the next meeting.What they found confirmed everything Logan had suspected.The money flowing into the underground wasn't coming from one corporation.It was being distributed through dozens of apparently independent investment groups, each with different directors, different addresses, and different articl
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