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CHAPTER 29 — THE DELIVERY (MATEO)

作者: Queen Bee
last update 公開日: 2026-04-20 22:32:08

The black sedan glided through the nighttime streets of Munich, a black fish in a river of asphalt and lights. The rain had stopped, leaving the air clean and cold. Inside the car, the only sound was the almost imperceptible hum of the engine and the soft noise of the tires against the road.

In the palm of my black leather glove rested a small plastic bag with a hermetic seal. Inside, two strands of hair, thin as threads of hope — or of condemnation.

Löwe had handed it to me minutes earlier, in
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