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CHAPTER 54: Gas Tanker
Rhea slammed the brakes, jumped out of her car, and planted herself right in the middle of the road—legs apart, shoulders squared, determination stamped across her face. Her pulse thudded in her ears, but she didn’t move an inch. The gas tanker barreled toward her, horn blaring long enough to vibrate the asphalt. The driver’s panicked scream traveled louder than the engine roar. “HEY! MOVE! MOVE! WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?!” But she didn’t flinch. She held her ground like she was daring death to blink first. At the very last second, the tanker screeched, tires dragging, rubber peeling against the road until the entire vehicle shuddered to a violent stop just a breath away from her. The driver came out of the cabin, wide-eyed and furious. “What the hell, ma’am?! You could’ve been a pancake! Are you out of your damn—” Rhea held up her badge directly in his face like a slap. “Pantheon Valley Police,” she said sharply. “I’m commandeering your vehicle.” He barked out a humorles
CHAPTER 53: Up the Elevator
“JOHNNY!!!”Rhea’s scream tore out of her throat before she even realized she’d opened her mouth. She kicked at the elevator doors like they were alive and mocking her as they shut and carried her upward—the metal vibrating from the force of her boot.“He’s an idiot,” she hissed, breath shaking. “A complete, absolute idiot—why did he have to stay behind?”The elevator kept rising at its slow, steady pace. Too slow.Too calm.Too wrong.Rhea paced inside the cramped space, fists clenching and unclenching. He didn’t get to do that. He didn’t get to shove her into safety like some helpless damsel while he played macho sacrifice downstairs. She hated it. Hated every part of it. Hated how it made her feel—small, unarmed, useless.But more than anything, she hated the fact that for the first time since she joined the force…she honestly didn’t know if Johnny Steele was going to walk out of that room alive.When the elevator finally dinged open, she burst out before the doors had fully parte
CHAPTER 52: Head to the elevator
The boss’s laughter rolled through the chamber again—low, almost delighted, the kind of laugh that crawled under your skin and stayed there.“Oh,” he said, tilting his head like he was watching children put on a school play, “this is going to be fun.”Fun.Sure. If “fun” meant being ambushed by a small army.Rhea barely had enough time to raise her gun before the first guard launched himself at her. Johnny stepped in at the same time, grabbing the man by the throat and slamming him into the concrete wall so hard dust shook loose from the ceiling.“MOVE!” Johnny barked, yanking her backward as another guard swung a metal baton.Rhea ducked, rolled, and came up firing. Two clean shots—kneecap, shoulder. The man screamed and collapsed. Johnny didn’t even glance; he’d already launched himself into the biggest cluster of bodies like a wrecking ball with a pulse.Another guard rushed Rhea from her left. She spun behind a crippled couch, fired twice, and sent him sprawling over a glass table
Chapter 51: You fools
“You fools.”The boss burst into another round of hysterical laughter — not the playful kind, but the sick, belly-deep kind that echoed off the tiled walls and dug under your skin. The kind of laugh that told you he truly genuinely enjoyed this.“Do you honestly think,” he wheezed between chuckles, “that I could run an establishment of this magnitude… with this level of organization… without having the entire Pantheon Valley Police Force tucked neatly in my pocket?”Rhea froze.Not physically — her aim didn’t drop, her stance didn’t falter — but something behind her eyes cracked. She tried to hide it, but Johnny saw it. The way her jaw clenched. The slight flare of her nostrils. The betrayal sinking into her bones like ice water.She didn’t want to believe it. She couldn’t.“Yes, yes, that look right there!” the boss cheered, pointing at her face. “Priceless. You truly didn’t know? My dear detective, your force has been mine for years. The chiefs. The captains. The ones you call for b
Chapter 50: Make the call
Her words hung there, unreal, like the air itself had stopped moving.Johnny watched her reaction closely — the flicker of confusion, guilt, the crumbling certainty behind her eyes. For a second she looked… lost.Rhea kept the gun leveled, but her grip had that tremor people get when they’re forced to choose between two truths. If the card was real, everything she’d pinned together unraveled. If it was fake, she’d walked straight into the jaws of a liar. Either way, she’d already pulled the trigger once tonight.“How… how do I know this isn’t another trick?” Her voice came out small, raw. “That card — whatever it is — it could be fake.”Johnny breathed out slow. He tasted metal and pain at the back of his throat. “Because if I wanted to fool you,” he said, quiet, “you’d already be dead.”For a beat, their eyes locked. That look — hollow, honest exhaustion — said more than any explanation. She read it. He didn’t need to sell anything. Not here. Not now.The boss began to clap. Slow. De
Chapter 49: On your side
“Rhea, I don’t know what you think is going on, but I swear—you’ve got it all wrong.”Johnny’s hands were up, palms open, voice trembling between exhaustion and disbelief.“Don’t you dare call me by my first name, you vile monster!” she snapped.“Monster?” Johnny’s brows drew together. “I’m on your side.”“On my side?” Rhea barked a laugh, sharp and humorless. “That was before I found out you’re a human organ-harvesting surgeon.”Her gun didn’t waver. The barrel glinted under the cold fluorescent light. The boss just stood there, silent amusement plastered across his face like he was watching a live theater performance—his favorite kind, where everyone bleeds in the final act.“I’m not the Surgeon,” Johnny shouted back, voice cracking through the thick air. “For God’s sake, you have to believe me!”“There’s no point in lying,” she said, her tone firm but her hands trembling slightly. “I’ve seen enough. You’re not walking away from this.”“What?” Johnny blinked, trying to wrap his head
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