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Chapter 86: Stay Alive
The image on the screen resolved fully, and Vivien's face came into clear focus, bound to a chair in a small, sterile room, her expression composed despite the men standing guard around her."Vivien Holden," Victor said, his voice carrying quiet satisfaction. "My men intercepted her before she reached the cruise event and brought her aboard privately. Considerably harder to locate than John Stanton, but well worth the effort once I understood exactly what she meant to you."Edward's expression finally cracked completely.Not with panic. Something colder, more controlled, the particular stillness of a man calculating exactly how quickly he needed to move."If you want her alive," Victor continued, "you come to the private medical chamber. Alone. No tricks, no manipulation of my systems this time. I have learned that lesson.""I will come," Edward said.He did not wait for Victor's response.He turned to the radio still connected to Mike's earpiece. "Get John out. Secure the remaining g
Chapter 85: One Hostage Left
Marcus's chest continued to rise and fall.Edward crouched beside him for a fraction of a second, long enough to confirm what his eyes had already told him, that the man's breathing had gone shallow but steady, unconscious rather than dying."He is alive," Edward said.Victor's voice came through the speakers with the particular satisfaction of a man revealing a punchline he had been saving for the right moment."Of course he is," Victor said. "The device released a sedative. Nothing more dramatic than that." He paused, letting the correction settle. "I never trusted Marcus. Not for one day in the years he worked for me. I kept him close specifically because I wanted to understand something about you that no amount of intelligence gathering had answered."Edward stood."What could make Edward lose control," Victor continued. "That has been the question occupying me since I first confirmed you were still operating in this city. Money does not move you. Power does not interest you. Even
Chapter 84: How Many People
The man at the end of the corridor smiled, and the smile carried nothing warm in it. "You remember me," he said. "I was almost certain you would have buried that part of your life deep enough to forget my face entirely." "Marcus," Edward said. "Still sharp," Marcus replied, his voice carrying old bitterness underneath the composed surface. "I worked beside you for years before you decided the rest of us were expendable enough to disappear on without a word. You left. And the people who trusted you were the ones who had to answer for everything that came after." Edward said nothing. Through the speakers, Victor's voice cut in, smooth and satisfied. "Marcus has been extraordinarily useful to me these past several years. He knew your habits, your old contacts, the particular signatures your operations tend to leave behind even when you believe you have hidden them completely. Without him, I would still be guessing at half of what I now know." Edward looked at Marcus, and Marcus held
Chapter 83: Someone From His Past
The corridor was narrow and dark, and Victor's fighters closed around Edward from both ends with the disciplined confidence of men who had trained specifically for exactly this kind of confined engagement.Edward stood still at the center of it."You are watching this," he said, his voice carrying calmly through the dark, addressing the nearest camera mounted above the corridor's midpoint. "Through the ship's system."In the control room, Victor leaned toward the console, his voice coming through the speakers with careful precision. "I am.""Then you already know your cameras are useless," Edward said.Victor's frown deepened, and before he could respond, the screens across the control room flickered, images shifting, splitting, multiplying into a dozen different feeds all claiming to show Edward's position simultaneously."What is this," Victor said, his composure cracking audibly."Cross-reference the timestamps," the technician beside him said, his fingers moving rapidly across the
Chapter 82: The Hunter
The lights across the entire ship died at once.Every deck, every corridor, every room went black simultaneously, and the sudden absence of light triggered exactly the reaction Victor had built his entire plan to prevent, screaming from the guests confined below deck, the scrape of chairs and bodies moving in panic through spaces they could no longer see."Secure the hostages," Victor barked into his radio, his composed voice fracturing for the first time. "Assume he is moving. Do not let anyone leave their positions."Edward did not move.He stood exactly where he had been standing when the lights died, in the same spot on the deck, surrounded by armed men who had gone rigid with uncertainty in the sudden dark, weapons raised at a target they could barely see and had received no instruction to fire upon.Victor stared at the monitor feed still running on backup power in his control room, watching the grainy infrared image of Edward standing perfectly still in the center of chaos.He
Chapter 81: Better Battlefield
Edward hit the water in a clean drop and landed square in the small speedboat that had been tethered quietly beneath the dock, invisible from above unless you knew exactly where to look.Mike stared at the space where he had disappeared, his mind briefly convinced he had just watched a man throw his life away out of pure recklessness.Then the engine roared.The boat cut across the harbor fast, its wake spreading white against the black water, and within seconds Edward had gone from a figure on the dock to a shrinking silhouette racing toward the departing cruise ship alone.The organization leader shouted instructions at his men, already moving toward their own vessels.Mike did not wait for permission from anyone."Get me a boat," he said to Rael, who had arrived at the harbor only minutes behind them. "Now.""Boss, if Victor has that ship fortified the way they described—""I am not asking for a debate," Mike said, his eyes fixed on the disappearing shape of Edward's boat. "I want
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