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2026-06-16 13:00:00Ace's Pov
I woke at nine in the morning on the warehouse floor with a jacket over me that was not mine and both of them asleep within arm's reach.
I lay still for a moment and looked at the ceiling.
The Syndicate had seventy two hours. Sixty-three of those hours were left. The plan I had been building in the back of my mind since the second message arrived was clear enough now to say out loud.
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Nikolai's PovI did not sleep after Ace told us about the plant.Two years. Someone inside the close circle for two years. I ran the list through my head starting from the most recent addition and working backward and when I reached the two year mark I had seven names.Each one carried weight. Each one had been trusted with pieces of our operation that could have been turned against us at any moment.By morning I had eliminated four through verifiable alibi patterns that did not produce gaps. Three remained. The process felt mechanical but necessary.Rem came to me at six with the access log analysis I had asked for the previous night. He put it on the table and pointed at a single entry without speaking.I looked at it.The name was Caspar.Caspar had been our senior operational advisor for nine y
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Ace's PovI woke at nine in the morning on the warehouse floor with a jacket over me that was not mine and both of them asleep within arm's reach.I lay still for a moment and looked at the ceiling.The Syndicate had seventy two hours. Sixty-three of those hours were left. The plan I had been building in the back of my mind since the second message arrived was clear enough now to say out loud.I sat up carefully around the shoulder and looked at both of them.Nikolai was awake within thirty seconds. He had always slept like that, present even when his eyes were closed."You have something," he said without moving."Yes," I said.Ivan opened his eyes. He looked at me and then at the ceiling and then sat up."Say it," Ivan said."The Syndicate spent eighteen
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Nikolai's PovI looked at both of them. "We need to respond. Not to accept the alliance. Not to reject it outright. To open a line that we control completely from our side.""A counter contact.""Yes. On our terms. Our channel. Our timing. We set the pace moving forward.""They will know we are stalling for time.""Good. Let them know we are not reactive. Let them see we make deliberate choices even under this kind of pressure."Ace nodded slowly. "I can draft the response.""We draft it together. All three of us. No solo work here on something this critical."He looked at me. Something in his face relaxed by a degree. "Yes. Together. That works better."I pulled Ace into the bedroom after we finished talking everything through. The tension from earlier was gone. He had reassur
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Nikolai's PovI read the message four times and each time the final line landed differently.Because you survived it. That was the test. You passed.An organization had spent eighteen months deliberately engineering the conditions that had nearly destroyed everything we had built and everyone we cared about. They had recruited Harlan. They had arranged the arms deal ambush. They had fabricated the DNA result that made Ace believe Castro was his father for months. They had accelerated every pressure point in the current conflict with precision and patience.And they had done all of it to test us.I stood up from the table and walked to the far side of the warehouse and stood with my back to the room.Behind me I heard Ivan say something to Rem. I heard Rem leave. I heard Ace stay in his chair.I stood at the wall for a long m
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Ace's Pov“Don't think this will distract us from the fact that you spent two hours and fourteen minutes with a federal agent who is your biological father and who has spent twenty years positioning himself to have access to you," Nikolai said. He put the tablet down. "And you came back with an agreement that requires us to drop our security protocols around federal exposure.""The agreement requires Calloway to drop the prosecution. In exchange for a relationship. That benefits this organization directly by removing a major ongoing threat.""It benefits you directly." Ivan was still looking at the wall. "The organization is a secondary consideration.""Both things can be true at the same time.""Yes." Ivan kept his gaze fixed. "They can.""But you are treating it like the personal motivation cancels the practical benefit."
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Ivan's PovWe tracked Ace through the relay signal on Rem's secondary monitor.Nikolai was at the table with the monitor between us and neither of us spoke much for the first forty minutes. The signal put Ace at the west side building and it stayed there and as long as it stayed there nothing was wrong."He is still inside," I noted.Nikolai looked at the monitor. "Yes. The signal is steady.""Fifty-three minutes," I said."I can see the timestamp clearly.""I am not reading it for you," I said. "I am talking through what this wait means."Nikolai looked at me. "He is not choosing Calloway," he said."You do not know that for certain.""Yes I do," Nikolai said. He leaned back in the chair. "If he were choosing Calloway he would not have told us where he was going
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(Ivan’s POV)A surprised, strangled gasp falls out from his lips. He glanced at us, afraid again. I could see the battle in his eyes, against his own body’s desire.“I…”To be ours, Ace had to learn some things.First, we wouldn't hurt what was ours for speaking up. In fact I wanted him to speak u
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