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Chapter 129: Black Gold in Yellow Barrels 2
Fifty miles away in Silverbridge, Alina watched Screen One as Charlotte stood on the splintered porch trying to reason with a cold-blooded monster. A faint, amused smile touched Alina’s pale lips. Reaching to her nightstand, she picked up her encrypted phone and dialed Charlotte’s number.Down in the Vance Valley, right as Charlotte opened her mouth to press Jaguar on the village debt contracts again, a sharp ringtone cut through the tense morning air.Charlotte froze, her eyes going wide as she pulled the phone from her coat pocket and saw five full bars of signal glowing at the top of her screen.She wasn't the only one who noticed.Jaguar’s gaze snapped down to his own belt, where his tactical handset vibrated once as it reconnected to the county cell towers. His jaw tightened. For the signal to return across the valley floor meant someone had just breached his locked relay shed up on the ridge and wiped out his military jammers without raising a single alarm.Behind the porch wind
Chapter 128: Black Gold in Yellow Barrels.
Realizing she finally had lethal backup watching over her from the treeline, Charlotte’s shoulders relaxed despite the eight Kalashnikovs and shotguns pointed at the porch."Now," Charlotte said, her voice cool as she gestured casually toward the armed thugs in the yard, "can we talk like civilized people?"For a long second, the only sound was the heavy drip of blood hitting the porch planks from Jaguar’s shattered right hand. Slowly, the warlord rose from his knee. Without letting another groan escape his teeth, he snatched a torn strip of cotton cloth from his nearest enforcer and wrapped it tightly around his bleeding palm, cinching the knot with his teeth as if the bullet hole didn't even exist."Stand down," Jaguar growled, waving his good hand at his crew. As the gunmen reluctantly lowered their barrels an inch, Jaguar fixed his dark, bloodshot eyes on Charlotte. "You’ve got a spine on you, young miss... I’ll give you that much. Now talk. What brings a city girl like you out to
chapter 127: You can't teach a ghost how to haunt
Xiao Jue didn't flinch when the rifle shot cracked through the mist, nor did he budge an inch as Sofia’s lifeless body slid down the side of the door onto the wet asphalt.Keeping his gaze fixed straight ahead toward the dark treeline, he raised a gloved finger and tapped the transmit switch on his tactical earpiece."You know I gave my word to keep her breathing, Seth," Xiao Jue said, his voice dangerously quiet.For two seconds, only the hiss of static and falling rain answered him. Then, a thick, arctic voice rolled through the channel, completely devoid of remorse."Your word isn't mine," Seth replied evenly. "A street rat is only ever loyal to her own skin. The second the heat inside that estate got too high, she would have sold you and the boy out for a clean exit.""You don't teach a ghost how to haunt, Seth!" Xiao Jue snapped, a rare flash of anger hardening his tone. "Jason was supposed to have the final say over her life. I kept her breathing for a reason, you psycho.""And
Chapter 126: Charlotte's Dillema
The eastern sky bruised into a pale morning gray, and still, Charlotte’s phone remained dead silent.After hours of waiting in vain at the crossroads for Jason’s signal or transport trucks, she knew staying out in the open past sunrise was suicide. Retreating into Old Man Ezekiel’s splintered barn to keep out of sight, she turned to the trembling farmer."If I stay by the road once the sun is up, Jaguar’s lookouts will spot me before we secure a single barrel," Charlotte said, her voice crisp despite her exhaustion. "I’m hiding inside your house. I need you to go door to door before the mist clears. Tell the other farmers a new buyer is in town—and anyone who brings their pressed sunflower oil here before eleven o'clock walks away with one point five times the full market price, in cash."Old Man Ezekiel’s breath caught. "One and a half times market rate? Miss Charlotte, Jaguar barely pays us thirty cents on the dollar!""Fear keeps them on their knees, Mr. Ezekiel. Only real money wi
Chapter 125: Sofia's Death
Sofia buried her foot into the floorboards, pushing the stolen Mercedes-AMG to its redline as the twin-turbo V8 tore down the rain-slicked country highway toward the glowing red pin on the dashboard.They were less than two miles from the perimeter marked by the Recon Ghost when Xiao Jue’s eyes narrowed behind his cracked visor.Ahead in the mist, approaching from the opposite access road leading toward the estate’s private lane, a pair of heavy, armored headlights cut through the dark—Sil’s extraction team, escorting her mysterious client in from the rendezvous point."Cut the lights and park sideways across the intersection," Xiao Jue ordered sharply. "Now."Sofia yanked the handbrake, whipping the matte-black AMG diagonally across the narrow two-lane crossroads to form a dead-end roadblock before scrambling out into the wet brush beside Xiao Jue.Thirty seconds later, the armored cartel SUV rolled up to the intersection and ground to a sudden halt, its high beams illuminating the fa
Day 2: The Double Decoy
Two hundred yards north of the roaring inferno that used to be the decoy Escalade, Sofia stumbled out onto the rain-slicked asphalt of Route 9, waving her bruised arms frantically in the swirling mist.Down in the dark drainage ditch beside the guardrail, Xiao Jue crouched completely motionless in the tall, wet grass, his suppressed 9mm already leveled at the road.Seconds later, the low, guttural roar of a twin-turbo V8 cut through the night.Twin LED headlights sliced through the fog as a sleek, matte-black four-door sports sedan—a heavily modified Mercedes-AMG—screamed up the highway toward the smoke column. Spotting the disheveled blonde limping across the center lane in an oversized security jacket, the driver stood on the carbon-ceramic brakes, bringing the low-slung beast to a halt twenty feet away.The engine stayed running, a third man keeping his hands firmly on the wheel behind the tinted windshield, while the front passenger door and rear door clicked open simultaneously.
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