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CHAPTER 128

Author: CagalieYula
last update Last Updated: 2025-05-14 15:30:54

Julian was late.

That wasn’t like him. Jeff’s men were never late unless something was wrong. My pulse ticked faster with each passing second, and I kept one hand inside the pocket of my navy blazer, fingers grazing the small flash drive Esteban had mailed to a dead drop in Zurich two days earlier. It looked unassuming—a scratched plastic stick with a fake IBM label—but inside it was the only tool capable of bypassing Julian’s biometric locks.

I stood in the sterile server chamber of Nexar Holdings—one of Jeff Ortega’s newest phantom startups disguised as an AI logistics firm. To the outside world, we managed drone inventory for post-conflict reconstruction zones. In reality, the shipments were anything but humanitarian. I knew that now. Containers labeled educational kits were filled with unregistered hardware—jammer circuits, surveillance chips, autonomous combat nodes.

It was a war economy, digitized and made elegant by men like Jeff.

And I was inside it.

“Motion sensors down,” Est
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