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Chapter 43: The Last Two Levels
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2026-10-28 21:00:26Even after the metal door locked behind them, Nathan did not move immediately.
They had put one solid barrier between themselves and the shadow following them.
That did not make them safe.
Daniel kept part of his attention on the connecting door they had just come through while Nathan scanned the parking structure ahead. Unlike the mechanical level inside the bank tower, the garage was lit in clean white, but concrete pillars and parked vehicles created blind spots everyw
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Between You and the Bullet Chapter 51: The Day the Money Moved
The bank records for Northbridge Strategic Services arrived that afternoon.Maya reviewed them first, then pulled out only the relevant pages and placed them in front of Audrey and Nathan.“It’s a more straightforward company than I expected.”“Straightforward?”Audrey looked at her.“What it claims to do doesn’t match how the money moves.”A corporate risk and crisis-management consultancy should have regular payments coming in from multiple clients, along with routine expenses for salaries, contractors, office space, and operations.Northbridge had almost none of that.“It lists three employees, but there are no regular payroll payments. There are some basic tax and registration expenses, but almost none of the fixed costs you’d expect from a normal operating company.”Nathan looked down at the records.“Money comes in only when it’s n
Between You and the Bullet Chapter 50: The Connection Eleven Days Ago
The missing Sterling reserve device had connected to the network from New Jersey eleven days earlier.By itself, that fact still had several possible explanations.An employee might have taken it out without completing the proper paperwork. It could have been moved to another office during a replacement cycle. The device-management records themselves might simply have been wrong.That was why Maya still refused to call it a stolen device.“We narrowed the connection down to a small office building in Newark.”The next morning, Maya spread a fresh set of records across the table in front of Audrey and Nathan, who were still at the private medical facility.Nathan’s right arm remained immobilized.His doctor had told him to rest, but he had already changed into normal clothes and was turning pages with his left hand as though the instruction had never been given.“Can you tell who used it?” he asked.
Between You and the Bullet Chapter 49: Two Gaps
They identified the source of the phone case later that evening.Maya opened the report from the analysis team. On the screen was a black leather case with a small gold fitting near the bottom.“We traced the manufacturer. It isn’t sold commercially. It’s issued with secure corporate devices, and the case itself can’t be bought separately at retail.”Audrey reached into her bag almost without thinking.She took out the device she used for work and placed it on the table.“…This?”Hers was deep brown rather than black, but the leather trim was the same.So was the small gold fitting at the bottom.Maya compared them.“That’s it.”Nathan looked at Audrey’s phone.“Sterling-issued?”“Yes. Secure executive device. I’ve had it since the last replacement cycle. I never realized the case itself was custom.&rdquo
Between You and the Bullet Chapter 48: Eleven Minutes on the Twenty-Fourth Floor
The Midtown building where Victor got out of the cab housed three law firms, along with a corporate crisis-management company, an accounting firm, an investment advisory business, and two investigative firms.That alone was far too broad to identify where he had gone.So Maya’s team started with the cab’s arrival at 2:47 p.m. and rebuilt his movement through the building from there.In the small conference room at the medical site, Maya turned her laptop toward them.The first footage came from the ground-floor lobby.Less than an hour had passed since the explosion at the bank. The man believed to be Victor entered through the main doors without a hat or glasses, crossed the lobby without stopping at reception or the visitor kiosks, and headed directly for the elevators.The camera never caught a clear frontal view of his face.It did capture the familiar slight outward turn of his right foot as he walked.“H
Between You and the Bullet Chapter 47: The Shadow of Victor Shaw
The comparison results came in about thirty minutes later.Maya reviewed the material sent to her phone, then placed the screen on the table without speaking.The man caught on camera across from the bank.Victor Shaw, taken from earlier surveillance footage.The two images sat side by side.Neither was clear enough for a reliable facial comparison. But height, shoulder width, stride length, the slight outward turn of the right foot when he stepped forward—and even a distinctive feature near the right wrist seen in previous footage—all overlapped.“There’s a strong possibility it’s the same man.”Maya still stopped short of calling it certain.“Video analysis alone isn’t enough for an arrest warrant. But this is the strongest thing we’ve had so far connecting Victor Shaw to today’s scene.”Audrey studied the two images.“He was there for at least ten minutes before the explosion?”“That’s what we can confir
Between You and the Bullet Chapter 46: Someone Was Watching
Whatever small relief had entered the room disappeared when Maya spoke again.“There’s one more thing.”She looked back at the tablet.“The triggering system. Right now, remote activation looks likely.”“Not a timer?” Audrey asked.“Not just a simple timer. The preliminary assessment is that whoever built it may have been able to choose the moment of detonation remotely.”Nathan straightened slightly.“Then it may not have been set in advance to match the original schedule.”“Exactly. Someone may have been watching what was happening that day and decided when to trigger it.”The air in the room changed.Audrey replayed the timeline.The meeting ended nineteen minutes early.The suspicious van was discovered.They moved to the thirty-ninth floor.The original departure time approached.Then the blast.“They knew where I was?”“We can’t say that,” Nathan answered imme
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