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Through the Gate
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2026-08-17 22:00:49Ethan reached the estate forty minutes after seeing the news, having driven the entire way with one hand gripping the wheel and the other holding the ultrasound photo against his chest like it might somehow keep everyone in that image safe just by being close to his heart, an irrational, desperate gesture he made no attempt to talk himself out of.
The gate was chaos by the time he arrived, two fire trucks pulled up the long drive, a cluster of unmarked black cars, men in dark suits direct
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Aleksei Volkov stepped out from behind the stacked crates like a man arriving at his own party fashionably late, unhurried, dressed in a plain gray suit that somehow made him more unsettling than if he'd worn something meant to intimidate. He was older than Ethan expected, silver at the temples, with pale eyes that moved over the room like they were cataloging every possible exit before landing, finally, on Ethan. The stillness of him was the first thing that registered, a man who had clearly learned decades ago that the fastest way to make an entire room afraid was to never once move faster than necessary."So," Volkov said, circling slowly, his footsteps unhurried against the concrete floor, "this is the man who divorced a Romano over a lie, then drove himself to their front gate the moment he found out the truth." He tilted his head, genuinely curious. "I confess, Mr. Blackwood, I expected someone more impressive. Or perhaps less. I hadn't decided which before tonight.""
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The side door was unlocked, which Nico immediately identified, in a low, tense whisper, as either very good luck or a very deliberate trap, the kind of small detail that experience had taught him never to take at face value.It was the second one, and everyone in the room seemed to already know it.The warehouse's interior opened into a wide, dimly lit space stacked with crates, the air thick with the smell of diesel and old cardboard, and standing among them, arranged with the casual confidence of men who had been waiting for a while, were five figures instead of the four or five Nico had estimated, all of them armed, all of them watching the door the moment it swung open."Romano security," Nico said immediately, hands raised, voice pitched loud and steady, the particular calm Ethan recognized now as a deliberate performance, meant to project control the moment control was in shortest supply. "We're here for the shipment. Nothing more."A man stepped forward from t
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