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CHAPTER 365
Before Rosalind could take a single step toward the hallway, a tall officer with a clipboard intercepted them, his expression firm and professional.Behind him, several forensic techs snapped photos of the shattered door frame, their cameras clicking like a relentless metronome.“Ms. Springfield,” the officer said, tipping his cap slightly but firmly blocking their path. “I’m glad you’re safe, but we can’t let you leave just yet. We have a crime scene involving high-level corporate espionage… and two severely injured men who look like they were hit by a freight train.”“Officer, please, it’s urgent—” Rosalind began, her eyes darting past him to the dark corridor.“I understand, ma’
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Rosalind was stunned.The way he looked at her was something she had never seen before. Now, she had no choice but to sit down and be quiet, or risk him doing the same thing to her. That thought pinned her in place.“You… you’ve never talked to me like that,” she whispered, her eyes welling with shock. “Never.”“Because you never pushed me this far,” Sean snapped, stepping toward her until he was inches away, his shadow swallowing her completely.“You want an expert? You’re looking at the only person in this city who can stop that counter before it hits zero. Now, sit down and be quiet, or I’ll walk out that door right now and leave you to explain a total corporate collapse to your board of directors. Do you understand?”Sean turned back to the server. He didn’t touch the keyboard. Instead, he pulled a small, customized interface cable from a concealed pocket in his jacket and bypassed the external port, plugging directly into the motherboard’s relay.His fingers flew across the di
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The tension in the room thickened.Cruz’s fingers tightened around the tablet, his thumb hovering like a guillotine over the Delete command.He wasn’t just a thug; he was a man who understood that his only shield was the data and his only escape was the woman he held over the window.“Don’t move!” Cruz roared, his eyes darting toward the exit, calculating the distance. “I’ll drop her, Sean! I’ll do it!”Rosalind’s breath hitched as her heels slipped farther off the ledge.The drop below was a dark mouth waiting to swallow her.“Sean, the encryption keys… if they’re wiped, it’s over!” she screamed, her voice echoing off the server racks.She couldn’t understand how he was so calm, how he could stand there and watch her legacy and her life hang by a thread. He looked at her not with panic or concern, but with the cold, analytical gaze of a technician measuring distance and probability.Sean didn’t answer with words.He answered with a sudden, violent shift in physics. He didn’t run at
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The door didn’t just open.The locking mechanism exploded, the entire slab of steel buckling inward under the force of a single, devastating kick.Cruz spun around, amber liquid splashing across the floor. Denis, pressed against the back wall, reached for his holster, but his eyes told the truth: the nobody from the driveway had found them.Sean stepped over the threshold, calm and unhurried. He ignored the weapons. He ignored the threats.His gaze locked on Cruz.“You talk too much,” Sean said.The room plunged into suffocating silence, broken only by the hum of server fans and the ragged, panicked breathing of the two men.Rosalind stared at Sean, eyes wide, struggling to reconcile the man who had just kicked through a reinforced door with the quiet, unassuming ex-husband she thought she knew.“You!” Cruz shrieked, voice rising an octave as he scrambled behind Rosalind, using her as a human shield. “Denis! What are you waiting for? Kill him! Shoot him now!”Denis didn’t need to be
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He accelerated, the car gliding toward the edge of the block. He could drive away, find that Star-Gazer figure, go home to Liana, and let the Springfield empire burn.It wasn’t his burden anymore. But then the image of Rosalind flashed in his mind, not the cold CEO, but the woman who had once been his wife. Despite the bitterness and distance, his internal compass hadn’t shifted. He wasn’t doing it for the company, and he certainly wasn’t doing it for Chloe. A person was being hunted in the dark, and only he could stop the predators. He didn’t turn back, refusing to give Chloe the satisfaction of seeing him return.The car banked hard to the right, cutting through a narrow service alley behind the Acheron complex.He killed the lights, and the matte-black Spectre vanished into the shadows of towering concrete walls.The vehicle came to a silent halt near the industrial waste units.Stepping out, he closed the door with a muted click, eyes immediately scanning the vertical face of th
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The lead thug didn’t like the silence coming from the driver’s seat.He shifted his grip on the submachine gun, knuckling white against the black polymer.“Final warning! Get out of the car, or we open fire!”Sean’s hand moved, not to the ignition, but to the door handle. He stepped out of the matte-black Spectre with a slow, deliberate grace that should have been a warning.He was taller than the thug expected, and the look in his eyes wasn’t fear. It was the cold calculation of a man plotting the fastest way to break a human body.“Whoa, look at this guy,” one of the other thugs mocked, stepping forward from the SUV. “Thinks he’s a hero because of his fancy car. Strip him down and toss him with the assistant.”Sean didn’t respond. He didn’t even look at the man who spoke. His focus remained on the thug directly in front of him.The man raised his weapon, but too slowly. Sean’s hand shot out, seizing the barrel and shoving it upward just as a burst of fire erupted. The bullets tor
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