本棚
検索
ホーム / Mafia / BLOOD & JUSTICE / SHOT 14 — Protected by the Enemy

共有

SHOT 14 — Protected by the Enemy

作者: Syzygy Phoenix
last update 公開日: 2026-04-14 21:22:37

The photograph gleamed under the lamp. Aria lifted it—Elena’s silhouette against the Eiffel Tower, ringed by the coarse pixels of a hasty, amateur edit.

“A genius detective with editing this terrible?” Aria scoffed. “The irony is almost painful.”

A pillow connected squarely with her face.

“That’s old work,” Elena said. “Five years ago, I was still learning.”

Aria dropped the photo into a cardboard bo

この本を無料で読み続ける
コードをスキャンしてアプリをダウンロード
前のチャプター 次のチャプター
ロックされたチャプター

最新チャプター

  • BLOOD & JUSTICE   SHOT 73 — Ballad of the Heirs of Darkness

    The Genovese ballroom had a way of making people forget they were baring their throats to wolves.That was Suede’s first thought as her heels met the marble, glossy enough to throw back the glow of three dozen Murano chandeliers. White ranunculus crowded every vase, their scent too thick to be anything but artificial. A string ensemble worked through Debussy on the far stage—loud enough to bury a conspiracy, soft enough to let the smallest friction slip through. Civility wrapped around everything in the room like silk over a blade.Five dynasties. One room. One night thick with intrigue.Suede lifted a glass of champagne from a passing tray, fingers closing around the stem only for cover, and let her gaze begin its sweep.✘ ✘ ✘The Carvajo faction owned the round table against the eastern wall the way harbor lords owned a dock. Fenrir Carvajo threw out a joke, hard-faced, and three men laughed too wide, too fast. Not humor

  • BLOOD & JUSTICE   SHOT 72 — The Price of a Door

    Suede froze. One full second.One second that stretched and rewound four weeks of operations in a frantic blur—every step down a deserted corridor, every gap she had slipped through undetected, every calculation she had trusted without question. But at the end of that reel, reality hit her with the same stark awareness: Elena Lafayette had been standing here first.Of course. That woman was always one step ahead.“Where have you been?” Elena asked.Suede pulled her coat tighter. “None of your business.”“True.” Elena didn’t shift so much as a centimeter from the wall. “But your room might become everyone’s business now—if the door wasn’t locked properly.”Suede went still.The words landed squarely in the blind spot she had convinced herself was safe tonight. She had been too fixed on timing, on escape routes and calculated probabilities of exposure, to remember one small and utterly fatal detail. The door. A latch that hadn’t caught because her hand never doubled back after she grabb

  • BLOOD & JUSTICE   SHOT 71 — When the Enemy Becomes an Alibi

    Twelve thirteen in the morning.Suede moved through the east wing corridor without a sound. Shoes dangled from her left hand. The soles of her feet, wrapped in socks, knew every inch of that floor—which boards were safe, which would groan under the wrong pressure. She’d mapped it all in her first week: three danger points along the main hallway, one more on the back staircase landing. She avoided every single one with surgical precision, like a bomb disposal expert navigating a minefield she couldn’t see but could feel through something deeper than instinct.The back gate yielded with a single touch on the keypad. The result of watching Dante’s fingers from two meters away the day he’d let the gardener through—the right angle, the right light, a muscle memory that operated somewhere beneath conscious thought. The rest was nothing but simple mechanical calculation.The night swallowed her whole the moment she stepped outside.✘ ✘ ✘A dark cab carried Suede toward the edge of the di

  • BLOOD & JUSTICE   SHOT 70 — No Safe Place Except You

    Their footsteps struck the dock in unison—Dante in the lead, Elena half a step behind him, Lorenzo and Suede sealing the rear.On either side of them, rows of luxury yachts swayed lazily over dark, swollen water. Their bow lights fractured against the surface, scattering like shards of burning glass. The night wind rolling off the Mediterranean was sharp with brine, laced with the residual tension of the casino that still clung to their skin.Elena drew her cashmere coat tighter. Her hands needed something to do—something other than counting the distance between each lamp post along the dock. Four blind spots. Two shipping containers at the right corner. One iron crane—the gap behind its support legs wide enough to conceal two adults.She had never learned to silence it: her mind always ran ahead, mapping threats before they had the chance to materialize.“Ferrantelli won’t let this end at the card table,” Dante said without slowing or turning his head.“He left too quickly for a man

  • BLOOD & JUSTICE   SHOT 69 — Natural Nine

    In the labyrinth of Elena’s mind, the numbers had been falling into formation since the fourth card changed hands. She’d already mapped the probability distribution from a half-spent deck, tracked the shift in Luca’s betting rhythm across three rounds, and arrived at a cold conclusion that was simply waiting for the right moment to be executed.Luca Ferrantelli played with the arrogance of a man who had forgotten what it felt like to lose. Men like that were always the most fragile prey.“This round,” Dante murmured, his breath grazing the shell of Elena’s ear, “finish him.”Elena gave no sign of agreement. Didn’t even blink. They had long since moved past the stage where confirmation required a sound.Her fingers reached toward the card box with a deliberate flash of hesitation—a visual performance designed to convince everyone at the table that she was nothing more than decorative, a woman far

  • BLOOD & JUSTICE   SHOT 68 — Before I Gouge Out Your Eyes

    The Salon Privés of the Casino de Monte-Carlo operated on a single unwritten law, worn into its velvet carpet through decades of quiet ruin: the most dangerous people in the room were always the ones who received their losses with a straight spine and a steady breath.Elena locked that understanding into place the moment her heels struck the heavy mahogany threshold. The baccarat tables had been arranged with an intimidating precision—row upon row, leaving just enough aisle space for two bodies to pass each other without shifting their shoulders. Above them, amber light smoked through the air, engineered specifically to kill the awareness that a different world was spinning outside on a different clock. The air was thick with premium tobacco, bespoke cologne, and something older beneath it all—a residue that existed in places like this: ambition handed down so many generations it had started to smell like authority.Dante stopped three meters from th

  • BLOOD & JUSTICE   SHOT 64 — What Stayed After the Funeral

    Dante had been rooted in front of his study window since six in the morning.Four hours. His feet anchored to the floor, shoulders locked, eyes fixed on one point in the back garden. Outside, the leaves of the old oak moved lazily in the wind, as though the earth had received no word that

  • BLOOD & JUSTICE   SHOT 63 — Smoke Left on the Ceiling

    At the far end of the corridor, Claudette moved at a hurried clip, a tray balanced in her hands.Elena had not planned to offer.She turned anyway.“Let me take that,” Elena said.Claudette stopped short. Nonna’s nurse had no framework for this—

  • BLOOD & JUSTICE   SHOT 62 — The Language Predators Speak

    It was well past midnight when someone paused at the threshold of Nonna’s room.One hand braced against the wooden frame, the other hanging loose. She stood there watching the old woman sleep—Nonna Sveta’s breath unhurried, the remnants of a smile still etched at the corn

  • BLOOD & JUSTICE   SHOT 61 — Cracks Recognizing Cracks

    They never actually talked about the painting.On the table, a medium-sized canvas rested on a wooden stand. Oil paint, a half-length portrait of a woman against a dark background—quintessentially Flemish, seventeenth century. The provenance of the piece was complicated; if anyone to

続きを読む

あなたも気に入るかもしれません

無料で面白い小説を探して読んでみましょう
GoodNovel アプリで人気小説に無料で！お好きな本をダウンロードして、いつでもどこでも読みましょう！
アプリで無料で本を読む
コードをスキャンしてアプリで読む
DMCA.com Protection Status