2025-07-19 07:35:19The Warehouse — Rage, Blood, and Unanswered Questions
Rain battered the battered roof. The light overhead was one naked bulb, flickering a pale pulse over Jayce’s bloody hands. The warehouse air reeked: sweat, iron, betrayal. Each drip of blood from Jayce’s knuckles hit the cracked floor with its own judgment. Across from him, Zion hung limp in the chair, wrists tied so tight they’d begun to purple, bruised face mottled and swelling, but his mouth stayed stubbornly shut. Jayce’s fury was volcanic—a storm threatening to blind him. He’d wanted to break Zion. He’d wanted to make him beg. But every silence, every half-lidded glare was a new wound in Jayce’s gut. Diesel stomped in, eyes wild. “He played us, Jayce! Fed Grim every damn move. We’ve been rats in a cage!” His voice was raw, alive with betrayal’s poison. Jayce wiped his split knuckles on his shirt, scowled at Zion, then at Diesel. “Then why didn’t he run? He had chances. Why’d he stay?” Diesel spat, face dark as thunder. “You ask him. Beats me.” Diesel’s fists clenched, shaking—anger, fear, loyalty all mangled together. None of it made sense. Jayce’s rage fought with confusion, each breath shredding the calm that used to guide him. Zion’s silence felt more like defiance than guilt, and that gnawed at everything Jayce used to trust. Private Hell: Alone with the Living Ghost “Everyone out,” Jayce ordered. The others left as the heavy door groaned shut, their last glances piercing the gloom. Jayce pulled a crushed pack from his coat, lit a cigarette. The flare barely reached the chair where Zion hung—a crumpled shadow. The two men locked eyes, one pleading, the other burning cold. Jayce blew a line of smoke. “Last chance. Blink twice if you want a quick death. I can make it slow.” Zion didn’t blink. He laughed—a broken, hollow rattle that was equal parts bitterness and relief. “You’re even blinder than I thought,” he rasped. Blood pooled at his jaw, but in his eyes, there was a light—burned, but unbroken. Jayce’s composure snapped. He crossed the cement, blow after blow crashing down—not for answers, but raw emotion. His fists found bone, flesh, and history between every punch. The harder Zion endured, the deeper Jayce’s pain grew until his knuckles ached and his heart grew hollow. Finally, Zion spat blood on the concrete, forcing himself to look at Jayce. His voice was sand and embers: “Grim killed my little brother. Two years ago. I got close to him—did whatever it took to get inside. I gave you that flash drive, hoping you’d see his weakness. I needed you to hit him before he hit us. But you waited. You—you never saw me.” Zion’s head slumped. Jayce staggered back, breath jagged. It wasn’t remorse in Zion’s words. It was grief, vengeance, shame—twisted together until Jayce almost didn’t recognize his old friend. Ghosts Behind Every Move: Zion’s Secret War Zion’s body sagged, but Jayce could see a memory flickering behind his swollen eyes—a dark parade: Zion crept through silent back hallways, clipboard in hand, gun tucked in his waistband, every step a gamble in Grim’s serpent’s nest. In the blue glare of hidden monitors, he scanned files: shipment manifests, passwords, target lists. He pressed a flash drive into a rat’s nest of cords behind a rusty vent, heart pounding at every distant footstep. He sent coded messages—scraps of hope signed in desperation—knowing Jayce might never see. He saw Jayce’s crew cheer victory after victory, never knowing the cost just outside their glow. Zion had lived a silent war, watching Jayce from the shadows, bleeding for a brother who’d forgotten how to look at him. Truth Like a Blade The warehouse door thundered open again—Diesel, wild-eyed, clutching a battered laptop. “Boss! The drive—the video that made us think Zion was shady—it’s a fake! Time stamps are edited, some footage is looped—he didn’t leak anything! He was trying to warn us.” Jayce’s mouth filled with ash. He reeled, the world spinning, bile rising with sudden, icy understanding. He turned to Zion, who barely clung to consciousness, lips trembling, but unable to speak. Regret slashed Jayce deeper than any knife. He’d tortured the only one who really bled for this crew. The Betrayal Reveals Its True Face Jayce seized Diesel by the jacket, voice twisting with panic and rage: “Who the fuck set us up?!” Diesel shrank back, shaken. “Intel was all run by Maya yesterday.” A horror started curdling, somewhere deep and final. — A thousand miles from mercy, Maya pressed a fresh coat of crimson polish to her nails in a plush penthouse. Cigarette smoke curled overhead. A door clicked open behind her; Grim entered, slow and satisfied. She smiled—an edge sharper than any blade. “They bought it,” she purred. “Zion’s dead. Jayce is on the edge. Tomorrow, he’ll fall—hard.”
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