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CHAPTER SIXTY-FOUR: SECRETS REVEALED

Penulis: Frank Cannon
last update Tanggal publikasi: 2026-02-05 18:57:44

The week passed quickly. Too quickly.

Before I knew it, we were back in Dr. Kim's office. About to share our deepest secrets.

"Who wants to go first?" Dr. Kim asked.

Colt raised his hand. "I will."

I squeezed his hand. Encouraging him.

He took a deep breath. "My deepest secret. The thing I am most ashamed of." He paused. Gathered courage. "When I was seventeen, I got a girl pregnant. Her name was Maria. She was from a rival club. We kept the relationship secret. When she told me about the baby,
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  • THE BIKER'S EX RETURNS    CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-ONE: WHAT RILEY CARRIED ALONE

    I found out on a Wednesday.Not from Riley directly. From Cruz.He came to my office at four in the afternoon with the expression he had developed for delivering things he was uncertain whether to deliver. Not the operational uncertainty expression. The human one. The look of someone who cared about multiple people and was caught between competing loyalties."Talk," I said."Riley has been managing something for two weeks," he said. "I noticed it because I know her now. The specific quality her focus gets when she is carrying something that she is not distributing." He paused. "I asked her directly yesterday. She told me it was operational and she was handling it." He paused again. "But this morning I overheard part of a phone call. She was talking to someone. I did not hear the full conversation. But I heard enough.""What did you hear?" I said."A doctor," he said. "She was talking to a doctor. About something that was not routine. The tone was not routine.

  • THE BIKER'S EX RETURNS    CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY: THE NAME INSIDE THE COURT

    Morrison called eleven days after Wren's removal.I was in the middle of a framework revision session with Dr. Solano. The third draft of the vulnerability section. Mae's documentation had produced material dense enough that organizing it correctly required multiple passes. Each pass revealed something the previous one had missed.I stepped out when Morrison's number came through."We have the name," he said.I walked to the end of the corridor where the ambient noise of the building dropped enough for privacy."Tell me," I said."Court administrator," he said. "Name is Howard Britten. Thirty-one years in the federal court system. Assignment coordinator for the appeals court for the last fourteen." He paused. "His role gave him direct authority over case assignments. No oversight requirement for individual decisions within established rotation protocols." Another pause. "He had been steering specific cases to specific judges for at minimum seven years. Not ex

  • THE BIKER'S EX RETURNS    Chapter ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-NINE: THE MORNING AFTER THE MAP

    I woke up at six with the particular clarity that sometimes came after nights where the mind had been working through something significant while the body rested.The map Mouse had built. The wealth management firm. The private equity fund. The documented connection between Wren and Hale's network. All of it processed overnight into something that had moved from urgent to managed. Not resolved. Managed. There was a difference and my nervous system knew it.Colt was awake."You slept," he said. Not surprise. Observation."Eventually," I said. "The map is in Morrison's hands. The forensic team starts at six. There is nothing more I can do before that process runs." I paused. "The mind accepted that around two AM.""Two AM is better than four," he said."Yes," I said. "Progress."We lay in the quiet morning for a few minutes. The compound still dark outside. The program running its overnight monitoring through Mouse's architecture. The city beyond the walls doing what cities did at six i

  • THE BIKER'S EX RETURNS    CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-EIGHT: THE MORNING THE THREAD PULLED

    Morrison called at seven fourteen.I had been awake since five. Not from crisis instinct. From the particular quality of sleep that ends before the alarm because the mind has finished what it needed to do overnight and is ready to move.Colt was already in the kitchen. He had made coffee and was reading. The ordinary morning that had become the baseline of our life together. I had come to understand that ordinary mornings were not the absence of significant things. They were the container that made significant things survivable.When the phone rang he looked at me over his reading.I answered."The forensic accounting team found it," Morrison said. His voice was the voice of a man who had been awake since five too but for different reasons. The voice of someone who had been waiting for confirmation and had received it at six fifteen and had been processing its full implications for the hour since. "The wealth management firm. The private equity fund. The limited

  • THE BIKER'S EX RETURNS    CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-SEVEN: WHAT MOUSE FOUND

    Mouse came to my office at eleven PM on the second day.I was still working. The framework revision for the network. Incorporating Rosa's eleven years into the methodology section. Ordinary work that I had been using to stay functional while Mouse worked and Morrison's recusal motion sat in the court's queue.Mouse knocked once. Opened the door.He had the particular expression he had when something was both what he had been looking for and worse than he hoped it was."Tell me," I said.He sat down. Put a printed document on the desk."Financial records," he said. "Not the Cayman account network. A different structure entirely. Wren has a personal investment account held through a wealth management firm in Connecticut." He paused. "The firm is legitimate. Clean on the surface. But one of the firm's investment vehicles is a private equity fund that has three limited partners." He paused. "Two of the three limited partners are entities that appear in the drive

  • THE BIKER'S EX RETURNS    CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-SIX: THE NAME

    Morrison sent the judge's name four days later.Tuesday morning. Seven forty-two. A text message with no preamble. Just the name. Judge Arthur Wren. Sixty-one years old. Appointed fourteen years ago. Clean record throughout. No visible connection to anything in Hale's documented network.Mouse had it on his screen within ninety seconds of me forwarding the text.I sat in the tech room with him and watched him work.He did not talk while he worked. That was always true. The talking happened before or after. During was silence and the specific sound of fingers moving across a keyboard with focused precision.Thirty minutes in he stopped.I waited."Nothing in the financial records that connects to the Cayman account network," he said. "Nothing in the federal judiciary oversight database that flags irregularity." He paused. "But.""Tell me," I said."Arthur Wren was assigned to two federal cases fourteen years ago. His first year on the bench." He pu

  • THE BIKER'S EX RETURNS    CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE: THE COST OF VICTORY

    Morrison's arrest made national news.Decorated detective kills crime lord in act of revenge. The story wrote itself.Some called him a hero. Others called him a murderer.I called him a casualty.One more person destroyed by my presence."Stop," Mae said for the hundredth time. "Morrison made his

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  • THE BIKER'S EX RETURNS    CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE: THE SIEGE BEGINS

    They came at midnight.Two hundred bikes. Roaring engines. The sound of war.I stood on the roof with Razor and Hammer, watching headlights approach like a swarm of angry fireflies."Here we go," Razor said quietly."Remember the plan," I said. "Let them get close. Then light them up."The New Serp

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  • THE BIKER'S EX RETURNS    CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO: FACE TO FACE

    I tracked Crystal through the clubhouse using sound.Her breathing. Her footsteps. The soft rustle of her clothes.She was good. But I was better.Because I knew this building. Every creaking board. Every hiding spot. Every exit.This was my territory.My home.I found her in the bar. Standing by t

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  • THE BIKER'S EX RETURNS    CHAPTER THIRTY: THE REAL ENEMY

    "You are alive." My voice was barely a whisper. "Very much so." Crystal's laugh was like nails on glass. "The body you found? A girl who looked like me. Same build. Same hair. I killed her three days before the quarry. Planted my ID on her. Knew you would not check too carefully in the heat of bat

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