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CHAPTER 82: Katya
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CLAIM ME, DON CHAPTER 84: It's Over
Dante stood in that room for exactly thirty seconds.Not over Viktor specifically. Just standing in the space that smelled like cigarette smoke and thirty years of inherited purpose while the coalition held every position outside and the Tuesday evening moved past the compound windows completely indifferent to what had just happened inside.He took his phone from his jacket and called the estate.I picked up before the first ring finished.I had been sitting at the kitchen table with the phone face up in front of me for two hours and Elena had been beside me and Nico in the corridor and the radio going in and out and the evening turning fully dark outside the window without any of us noticing it happen.The phone lit up and I had it to my ear before the sound finished.One moment of silence.Then his voice."It's done," he said.Two words and I pressed my free hand flat against the kitchen table and felt the wood solid and real under my palm and breathed slowly and completely for the
CLAIM ME, DON CHAPTER 83: The Confrontation
The room on the second floor was small and smelled like cigarette smoke and old decisions.Viktor was standing at the window when Dante came through the door with two coalition men behind him and the particular quality of stillness that came from a man who had been waiting for this moment and had decided that sitting down for it would be a concession he was not willing to make.He was smaller than expected. Not physically small, a broad man in his fifties with grey at his temples and the weathered look of someone who had spent decades in rooms exactly like this one, but small in the way of a thing that had seemed enormous from a distance and revealed its actual dimensions up close.He looked at Dante for a long moment.Dante looked back at him.Neither of them spoke for what felt like a very long time but was probably fifteen seconds.Viktor moved first. Just a shift of his weight, a small adjustment, the body language of a man deciding which version of himself to lead with.He chose
CLAIM ME, DON CHAPTER 82: Katya
She was the one nobody had been watching closely enough.That was how it always worked with the dangerous ones. They let you look at the obvious threat, the loud one, the one with thirty years of grievance and a compound full of men and a name everyone knew, and while you were looking at that they were somewhere else entirely doing the thing that would cost you something you hadn't budgeted for.Katya had been inside the compound when the coalition came through the northern gate.Nobody had seen her enter. The intelligence on compound personnel had her listed as Viktor's operational coordinator, present at meetings, present on calls, present in the background of every significant decision for the last four years. Cold and precise and entirely without the kind of ego that made people visible when visibility was dangerous.She had been invisible all day.The first team through the inner gate found three of Viktor's men in the ground floor corridor and neutralized them quickly and moved
CLAIM ME, DON CHAPTER 81: Viktor Cornered
By five o'clock the coalition was inside the compound walls.Nico told us in pieces the way information came through on the radio, fragments and confirmations building a picture that assembled itself like a map being drawn in real time. Northern approach team through the back gate. Eastern coalition closing the perimeter from the right. Viktor's internal forces caught between two fronts they had not anticipated because they had been watching the wrong approach for forty minutes while the right one walked in behind them.The radio had been going almost constantly since four fifteen and the kitchen had taken on the particular atmosphere of a room where people were waiting for something they could not see but could feel getting closer with every passing update.Elena stood at the counter doing something she had already done twice without seeming to notice.I sat at the table with my hands around a cup I had stopped drinking from an hour ago.Nico came in from the corridor at five twenty
CLAIM ME, DON CHAPTER 80: The Pivot
The radio went silent at half past two and the silence had a different quality from everything before it.Not the operational quiet of a man moving between calls. Something more deliberate than that. Something that felt like a decision being made in real time at a distance of forty minutes while we sat at the kitchen table with cold tea and the afternoon light doing nothing useful through the window.Nico stood in the corridor with the radio pressed close and his face doing the careful neutral that I had learned meant he was absorbing something significant and deciding how much of it to give us and in what order.Elena refilled the kettle.I watched Nico's face.After four minutes he came into the kitchen and stood at the table and looked at me directly in the way he did when he wanted to make sure I was ready before he said the next thing."He is pulling the compound front back two hundred meters," he said.I stood up from the table."The whole coalition," I said."Every position on
CLAIM ME, DON CHAPTER 79: Marco Down
The call came at two in the afternoon.Nico took it in the corridor and I heard the quality of his voice change through the library door before I heard any words, that specific register shift that told me something had happened before he appeared in the doorway with his face arranged into the careful neutral of a man carrying information he did not want to deliver.I put the book down."Tell me," I said."Marco is down," he said. "Caught in the crossfire on the second front. He is alive and being moved to a secure medical location right now."The words landed one at a time and I stood up and walked to the window because standing still was not something my body was willing to do with that information sitting in it."How bad," I said."We don't have the complete picture yet," he said. "What we know is he went into the line of fire to pull one of the coalition men out of an exposed position. The medical team reached him within four minutes of the call going out.""Four minutes," I said.
CLAIM ME, DON CHAPTER 22: Giulia
I found it on a Wednesday afternoon.I had been working my way along the lower shelves of the library, the ones I hadn't reached yet, pulling books out and reading the inscriptions and putting them back. It had become a habit without my meaning it to, learning the woman who had lived in this room t
CLAIM ME, DON CHAPTER 19: The Truth
Marco was in the sitting room when we found him.He was stretched out on the sofa with a glass of wine and a book open on his chest and he looked up when we walked in with the easy unbothered expression of a man with a completely clear conscience, which told me immediately that he had been expectin
CLAIM ME, DON CHAPTER 14: The First Fight
I found out by accident.Elena mentioned it without thinking, somewhere between clearing the breakfast plates and asking if I wanted more coffee. She said something about the boxes from my apartment being stored in the east corridor if I needed anything from them, and she said it the way you mentio
CLAIM ME, DON CHAPTER 13: Marco
He arrived on a Thursday like a weather event.I heard him before I saw him, a voice in the entrance hall below carrying the kind of energy that didn't ask permission before filling a room. Warm and loud and completely unbothered about either. I was coming down the main staircase when he appeared a
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