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Chapter 126: The Approach
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Scent of Obsession Chapter 126: The Approach
Chapter 126: The ApproachThey staged two miles out, in the gray hour before dawn when the light hadn't decided yet what kind of day it wanted to be not quite night, not quite morning, the sky the color of old bruises fading at the edges.Damien checked his weapon for the third time, not because it needed checking, but because his hands needed something to do besides shake. He'd never fired one outside a range before this week. He was aware, distantly, of how absurd that should have felt a man who ran four companies, who'd sat across boardroom tables from people twice his age and never once let his voice waver, now standing in a French field at dawn checking the safety on a gun he'd only learned to load three days ago. It didn't feel absurd. It felt like the only thing that had ever made complete sense.Around him, Sorokin's men moved with the quiet, unhurried efficiency of people who did this for a living checking straps, murmuring to each other in low Russian Damien didn't understan
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