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Chapter 15: Shadows on Black Rock
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The safehouse was no longer safe.

After the sniper attack, Gregory and Amelia vanished into one of Crane’s backup hideouts—an abandoned train station turned bunker beneath the city. Concrete walls. No windows. Triple firewalls on the network. Silent as a grave.

Amelia sat at the far corner, legs pulled to her chest, eyes wide and sleepless.

Gregory paced, fists tight. “They tried to kill you.”

“No,” Amelia said softly, “they tried to kill you. I was just a witness.”

Gregory turned sharply. “Don’t say that like you don’t matter. You do. They know it. That’s why they targeted us both.”

Crane emerged from the shadows, holding a tablet. “I traced the shot’s trajectory. The sniper used military-grade equipment. Suppressed barrel. Infrared scope. Whoever it was, they were ex-military—possibly even current.”

“Voss has soldiers now?” Gregory asked.

Crane nodded grimly. “He has everything.”

Blake stepped forward, pulling up a satellite map. He pointed to a speck off the coast—Black Rock Island
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