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Chapter 9: The Traitor’s Whisper

Penulis: Lordess Chan
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The Castellano safe house reeked of damp concrete and stale cigarette smoke, a squat brick building tucked in the city’s industrial underbelly. Inside, the air was thick with tension, the kind that made your skin crawl and your trigger finger itch. Kai Castellano stood in the center of the dimly lit basement, his black leather gloves flexing as he stared down at the Moretti soldier tied to a chair. The man’s face was a mess—bloodied lip, swollen eye, sweat beading on his brow—but his defiance hadn’t cracked. Yet.

“Who hit the docks?” Kai asked, his voice low, a blade sliding through silk. His icy blue eyes bored into the soldier, unblinking, his six-foot frame looming like a storm cloud. The dock attack—gunfire, bodies, a black rose sprayed on a container—had been a slap to the Castellano name, and Kai didn’t tolerate insults.

The soldier, a wiry man named Enzo, spat blood onto the floor. “Go to hell, Castellano.

”Kai’s lips twitched, not quite a smile. He stepped closer, crouch
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