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Chapter 132: The Spy
There was once a landowner who bought thirty slaves to work his fields," Charlotte began, her calm voice cutting across the muddy farmyard as she looked from Eddie’s trembling form to the angry farmers holding the cut ropes. "Thirty strong men and women in chains—and only four people in the big house to control them all: the master, his wife, and his two young sons. Tell me, Eddie... what happens to a family of four when thirty starving people decide to revolt at the same time?"Eddie swallowed hard, staring down at his four-fingered right hand in the dirt. "They... they would be overpowered in minutes.""Exactly," Charlotte said softly. "In the beginning, the master whipped them himself to force them to work. Soon enough, that shared pain bred shared hatred. One night, he overheard the thirty slaves plotting to slit his family's throats in their sleep. Now, what do you think that master did to survive?"Beside the porch steps, Ezekiel frowned, shaking his head. "Brought in more guard
the deal
"Now," Alina said smoothly over the line, "name your price for the village land deeds you seized."A dark, humorless smirk tugged at the corner of Jaguar’s mouth as he flexed his bandaged palm."Those deeds aren't part of our phone chat, sweetheart, and I’m not using them to haggle," Jaguar replied, his swagger creeping back now that he knew what she wanted. "They stay locked in my ridge vault until you show up in person at midnight to seal our partnership."Fifty miles away in her bed, Alina’s eyes narrowed slightly at the screen."You know my shooter can open your skull at any second, Jaguar," Alina murmured silkily. "Yet you still talk as if you hold the cards. Where exactly did you buy all this confidence?"Jaguar slowly turned his head, locking his bloodshot gaze directly onto Charlotte standing a few feet away on the porch."Because if I drop dead right now, my six boys will empty two hundred rifle rounds into this porch before your sniper can cycle his bolt," Jaguar growled sof
chapter 130: Negotiating with the Devil
"I didn't see much," Alina replied, her voice drifting through the receiver with the smooth, hypnotic calm of a predator toying with wounded prey. "Only your military-grade signal array behind the third silo, your freshly bulldozed logging trail through the timberline, and twenty fifty-gallon drums of raw crude weeping petroleum behind your trucks. Oh... and the rotary drilling rig humming beneath the bedrock."Every word struck Jaguar like a physical blow. The scarred warlord staggered back two paces, his boots crunching heavily in the gravel as the blood drained from his face, leaving his skin an ashen, sickly gray.His six remaining gunmen exchanged panicked, bewildered glances. They had never seen their boss look terrified of a single human being in his entire life—let alone a voice coming through a young woman's phone."Who the hell are you?" Jaguar rasped, pressing the phone harder against his ear as his calloused thumb tightened white-knuckled around the grip of his smoking rev
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
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