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Robert pulled off the main highway onto a secondary road, following the directions Christopher had given him. The safe house was in the Catskills, remote and hidden—the kind of place where a man could disappear for weeks, months, even years.He thought about calling Christopher, letting him know he was on his way. But he decided against it. The burner phone was secure enough, but why take unnecessary risks? He would arrive when he arrived, and Christopher would be waiting.The road wound through dark forests and past sleeping towns. Robert drove in silence, his mind drifting through memories—Richard as a boy, laughing at something foolish; Christopher as a child, bright and hungry, desperate for approval; the family dinners that had once been warm and loving, before ambition and betrayal had poisoned everything.What am I doing? he wondered. Chasing a power that has destroyed everyone who's touched it.But he kept driving. Because what else was there? The family had cast him out. Rich
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The cell door clicked open at exactly 11:47.Robert rose from his cot, his heart pounding despite years of training himself to remain calm in crisis. He had waited for this moment since the day he got to know that Callahan was the warden. And now that it was here, it felt almost surreal—like a dream from which he might wake at any second.Men like Callahan were men who always kept their words and whatever was happening right at that moment was a testament because everything was indeed real.The open door was real. The corridor beyond was real. And the guard waiting for him, a tall, silent man named Coates who had been in Callahan's pocket for years—was real.Coates nodded once, then turned and began walking. Robert followed, his prison-issued shoes silent on the concrete floor.The maintenance corridor was a world unto itself—a maze of pipes, electrical conduits, and utility closets that ran beneath the main facility like veins through a body. Coates had memorized every turn, every
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"I'm telling you because you're still my father. Because despite everything, despite the betrayals and the failures and the years of—" He paused, choosing his words carefully. "Complication. You're still blood."Robert said nothing. The silence was heavy, charged."I'm not going to be in here forever," Christopher continued. "And neither are you."Robert closed his eyes. In the darkness behind his lids, he saw Richard's face—his brother, dead on a concrete floor, killed by his own ambition. "The Obsidian changes everything, Father. With it, we can rebuild. Stronger than before. No more Kings, no more O'Connor infighting. Just us."Robert was silent for a long moment. Then: "Marta. Where are they taking her?"Christopher told him. A location in upstate New York, remote, secure. A hunting lodge that had been in Kozlov's family for generations.And after that the line went dead.Robert sat in the gray light of his cell, the phone still pressed to his ear, listening to nothing. Then, slo
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"They took her. They followed me. It's my fault."Sparrow replied.Harry's mind raced. "Who? Who took her?""Christopher O' Connor." Sparrow's eyes were dark. "Marta knows things that can unlock the very thing that the O' Connors have been fighting for for centuries."Harry stared at him. "What things? What could she possibly know that Christopher would send people after her?"Sparrow met his eyes. In the dim light, his face was carved from shadow and sorrow."The Obsidian."The word meant nothing to Harry. He shook his head. "I don't understand.""Marta knows another way. A way to unlock the Obsidian without the three O'Connor relics. A way that Christopher has been desperate to find for years."Harry's breath caught. "How? How could she know that?""Because Viktor found it." Sparrow's voice was barely above a whisper. "Before he died. Before Raymond was killed. He was working for people—people connected to the Kings, to Christopher's network. But he wasn't just a fixer. He was a seek
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The bus terminal was everything Harry hated about the world beyond Marta's cabin. It was loud, crowded, and too impersonal. Announcements blared from overhead speakers, competing with the rumble of diesel engines and the chatter of strangers. The smell of exhaust and cheap coffee hung in the air like a physical presence.Harry stood in line at the ticket counter, his bag slung over one shoulder, the small wooden bird Marta had given him clutched in his pocket. His fingers traced its smooth contours absently, a talisman against the chaos."Next."He stepped forward, purchased his ticket, and moved to the waiting area. His bus wasn't for another forty minutes. He found a seat near a window, set his bag at his feet, and tried to quiet his mind.But something was wrong.At first, he couldn't name it. Just a vague unease, the kind of feeling you get when you've forgotten something important but can't remember what. He checked his pockets for his phone, wallet, ticket, the wooden bird. Ev
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Susan looked up then. Brenda's eyes were wet. Genuine tears? Or just another performance?"Richard made his choices," Susan said quietly. "He paid for them. That doesn't change what he did. What you did.""I know." Brenda's voice was barely above a whisper. "I know."They stood in silence, two women bound by a family that had caused them both immense pain. Steven breathed between them, unaware, unresponsive.Finally, Brenda stepped back. "I should go. But Susan—" She paused at the door. "If you need anything. Anything at all. Call me."She left, the door closing softly behind her.Susan sat alone with Steven, his hand in hers, and wondered if she would ever understand the people in this family. If she would ever trust again. ***The morning sun filtered through the trees surrounding Marta's cabin, casting long shadows across the porch where Harry sat with a cup of tea. The days had blurred together in this place—a strange, suspended time between the nightmare of his captivity and wh
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