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Three days later, everything changed again. It started with a phone call. Penking answered it at breakfast. His expression darkened immediately. “When?” A pause. “I’ll be there in ten minutes.” He hung up. Looked at her. “I have to go. Emergency.” “What kind?” “The kind that might get people killed.” He grabbed his jacket. “Stay here. Don’t leave. Don’t answer the door.” “Kael” “I’m serious, Amelia. Something’s happening. And until I know what, you’re safer here.” He left. She sat at the table. Alone. The apartment was too quiet. She tried calling Dan. No answer. Tried again. Straight to voicemail. Her stomach knotted. She called Penking. It rang once then cut off. Something was wrong. She went to the window. Stared down at the street. Nothing looked different. Cars. People. Normal morning traffic. But it didn’t feel normal. Her phone buzzed. A text from an unknown number. Dan’s been taken. If you want him alive, come alone. Address below. One hour. Her blood w
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He took her to Brooklyn. Not the Brooklyn of expensive brownstones and artisan coffee shops. The other Brooklyn. The one tourists didn’t see. Crumbling buildings. Graffiti. Broken sidewalks. The car stopped in front of a condemned apartment building. “This is where you grew up?” she asked. “For the first twelve years.” He got out. “Come on.” She followed him inside. The building smelled like rot and mold. Stairs creaked under their weight. Third floor. He stopped at a door. No lock. Just hanging open. Inside, the apartment was gutted. Empty except for debris and graffiti. “My mother worked three jobs,” he said. Standing in what used to be the living room. “My father drank through whatever money she brought home. I learned early that survival meant being smarter and meaner than everyone around you.” Amelia said nothing. Just listened. “When I was twelve, my father got into debt with the wrong people. Gambling. They came to collect. And when he couldn’t pay, they killed him.
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He didn’t come to bed that night. She lay awake listening for footsteps that never came. Morning arrived grey and cold. She found him asleep on the couch. Still in yesterday’s clothes. An empty glass on the table beside him. She made coffee. Set a cup on the table near his hand. Went back to the kitchen. He woke up twenty minutes later. Came and leaned against the counter. “About last night,” he said. “Don’t.” “We need to talk about it.” “No we don’t.” She kept her eyes on her coffee. “It was a mistake. It doesn’t happen again.” “Amelia—” “I mean it.” She looked at him. “Whatever you think that kiss meant, you’re wrong.” “Then what did it mean?” “Nothing. It meant nothing.” He studied her face. “You’re a terrible liar.” “And you’re delusional if you think one kiss changes anything between us.” “It changes everything.” “No.” She set down her cup. “It changes nothing. You still own me. I still want to leave. That’s the only truth that matters.” He w
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She went to meet Olivia.The decision made itself somewhere between morning coffee and noon. She couldn’t stay trapped in the penthouse counting failed strategies while Devon rotted somewhere and Penking tightened his grip day by day.She needed options. Information. Anything.At 2:45 PM, she told the guard she was going for a walk.He checked his watch. “Be back by four.”She nodded and left.The coffee shop was the same. Small. Tucked away. Empty except for Olivia sitting by the window.Amelia slid into the seat across from her.“You came,” Olivia said.“You said it was about Devon.”“It is.” Olivia pushed a folder across the table. “He’s alive. Barely. Penking has him in a warehouse in Red Hook. Third building from the pier.”Amelia opened the folder. Photos. Grainy. Dark. But clear enough.Devon. Bruised. Bloodied. Chained to a wall.Her stomach turned.“When were these taken?” she asked.“Yesterday.”“He looks—”“Half dead. I know.” Olivia’s voice was flat. “Penking visits him tw
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She didn’t come out of the bathroom.Not for an hour. Not for two.Penking knocked once. “Amelia.”“Go away.”“Open the door.”“No.”Silence. Then his footsteps retreating.She sat on the cold tile floor and stared at nothing.The anger had burned out. Left behind something hollow.She’d played way three perfectly. Built trust. Created intimacy. Made him see her as useful, intelligent, worth listening to.And it hadn’t mattered.Because at the end of the day, she was still the girl he’d bought.The thing he owned.No amount of careful strategy could change that.A soft sound outside the door.She looked up.Something slid underneath.A piece of paper.She picked it up.His handwriting.I’m sorry.Two words. Nothing else.She stared at it.Kael Penking didn’t apologize. Ever. She’d learned that much about him.And yet.She opened the door.He was sitting on the floor across from it. Back against the wall. Head tilted back.He looked exhausted.“You’re still here,” she said.“Where else
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Way three collapsed completely on a Friday.Two weeks into the careful dance. Two weeks of building trust through calculated honesty and small intimacies. Two weeks of her believing she was in control of the narrative.She wasn’t.It started with a knock on the door.Penking answered it. Had a brief conversation Amelia couldn’t hear.Then he came back and looked at her. “Get dressed. Something formal. We’re going out.”“Where?”“You’ll see.”She didn’t argue. Went to the closet. Found a black dress that looked expensive.When she came out, he was in a suit. Hair perfect. Expression unreadable.They rode the elevator down in silence.The car was waiting.They drove for twenty minutes. Stopped at a building she didn’t recognize.“What is this?” she asked.“An event.” He opened her door. “You’re going to meet some people. Smile. Be charming. Don’t embarrass me.”She followed him inside.A ballroom. Chandeliers. A hundred p
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