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Chains of Velvet, Heart of Fire Chapter 136
The bulkhead slammed shut behind her like the closing of a tomb.Steel-on-steel. Sealed. Final.Seraphina didn’t flinch.She raised her weapon, eyes sweeping the tight corridor now flooding with footsteps. Her breath was steady. Her heart didn’t race. The chaos didn't shake her. It sharpened her.Two men rounded the corner. Combat gear. Black visors. Rifles raised.She didn’t hesitate.Double-tap. One to the throat, one to the eye.They dropped.The second wave came from the side, closer. One reached for Lucio.He never made it.Seraphina lunged like a shadow and drove her blade between his ribs, twisting up. The man gasped, surprised he was already dying.She grabbed his rifle before it hit the floor.Reloaded.And turned toward the next enemy.Lucien was bleeding badly.He’d dropped to one knee, pressing his arm against the wound on his side. Vincenzo dragged him behind a collapsed piping rig while Lucio crouched next to him, eyes wide, breathing sharp little gasps but not crying.E
Chains of Velvet, Heart of Fire Chapter 135
Night blanketed Tripoli in smoke and silence.The harbor district had emptied just after midnight. Fishing boats were moored. The street lamps near the grain silos had been cut deliberately. Intentional. From a distance, the facility looked abandoned.But Lucien knew better.He crouched on the ridge with Seraphina, Vincenzo, and three of Vincenzo’s most trusted black ops contractors. A dry breeze stirred dust through the cracks in the cement. The grain silo sat like a monolith against the stars, the corrugated metal sheathing glinting just barely from their NVG lenses.Matteo’s voice crackled in Lucien’s ear.“East side guard loop confirmed. One-minute rotation. Two-man formation. No heat inside the grain bays, but I’m picking up faint signatures in the substructure.”Lucien’s voice was a whisper. “Any sign of Lucio?”“Same signal. Same position. He hasn’t moved in twenty minutes.”That meant sedated. Or worse.He didn’t say it aloud.They crossed the eastern field low, past rusted ba
Chains of Velvet, Heart of Fire Chapter 134
They found the compound three kilometers beyond the Algerian border—buried beneath a false vineyard, its perimeter disguised as a shuttered agricultural facility.The aerial drone captured faint thermal signatures at the northeast wing. Four guards rotating in a near-military pattern. No visible insignia. No obvious exit points.Inside that pattern, Matteo confirmed: one heat source the size and shape of a child.Lucio.“We go in at 0200,” Lucien said.Vincenzo was already checking the elevation routes. Seraphina studied the satellite floor plan. Matteo synchronized the exit tunnels. Elian arranged for off-grid medevac.No one had to ask what Lucien would do if they failed.He hadn’t spoken since receiving Lucio’s wolf in the torn backpack.Not in words, anyway.Just motion.Every gun oiled. Every knife checked. Every plan spoken only once.He was a man whose rage no longer roa
Chains of Velvet, Heart of Fire Chapter 133
The estate in Provence had gone silent.No smoke. No alarms. No guards at the gate.Just stillness.Lucien stood at the edge of the treeline, boots crunching over gravel and snow-dusted earth, rifle strapped across his back. The rest of the team—Vincenzo, Seraphina, Elian, Matteo—followed closely, weapons drawn, hearts already bracing for what they would find.They reached the front entrance. The gate was half-sheathed in ice, hinges twisted where an explosion had torn through.Lucien raised a hand. “No one fires unless I do.”He moved forward into the silence.What they saw inside carved itself into memory.Bodies.Four agents lay sprawled across the front corridor. Two with single shots to the head, the others slumped in defensive positions, blood pooling beneath them.No sign of resistance alarms. No panic. It had been surgical. Cold.Matteo moved ahead, sweeping the next hallway. “Their comms are fried. Burnt through at the frequency core. Someone wanted no record of this breach.”
Chains of Velvet, Heart of Fire Chapter 132
The world had disappeared into white.Snow whipped across the cockpit as the transport helicopter descended through a low-pressure system tearing over the Arctic fringe.Visibility was minimal. The terrain below was jagged ice and broken stone, like the skeleton of the Earth exposed under wind and time.Lucien Marchesi sat strapped into a harness, silent, a map projected on the tablet between his knees. The coordinates pulsed in red—unchanged for seventy years. Vault Primus.Across from him sat Seraphina and Vincenzo, both armed, both quiet. Elian rode in the rear, fingers wrapped around a steel case of biometric decryptors. Matteo monitored the descent beside the pilot, scanning atmospheric anomalies.The estate was far behind them. So was Lucio.He had been left in the care of Interpol’s Omega division, hidden under triple-layer security in a location only Lucien and Anton knew.Lucien hadn’t wanted to leave him—but Anton had insisted. “Let me be the blade behind the door,” he’d sai
Chains of Velvet, Heart of Fire Chapter 131
It began not with a bullet, but a signature.Lucien Marchesi stood at the head of the long conference table in the war room, a thick dossier of papers beneath his hand. In the center of the table lay the Codex copy: encrypted drive, black case, signed chain-of-custody form. Each page was authenticated, time-stamped, and sealed with biometric confirmation.Across from him, Detective Elian leaned forward, expression unreadable, as he slid the final copy of the agreement toward Lucien."This makes it official," Elian said. “Once you hand this over, the Codex and all related intel become part of Interpol's evidence vault.”Lucien’s eyes didn’t waver. “That’s where it belongs.”He signed. One stroke. One name. And the weight of twenty years of empire passed from blood to law.In the eastern wing of the estate, Vincenzo oversaw a wall of screens streaming data from servers across Istanbul, Dubai, Buenos Aires, and Brussels. Each node had been tracking shell companies, fake IDs, private bank
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