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Echo’s in the dark

작가: Allison zee
last update 게시일: 2025-09-19 23:16:43

The city never really slept, but tonight it felt like it was mourning. Headlines flickered across glowing screens on every corner:

CASSIAN WESLEY PRESUMED DEAD IN COASTAL HIGHWAY EXPLOSION.

A neat, devastating line for the tabloids to chew on. A scandal ended. A tragedy reborn. But Rowan Maddox couldn’t accept a single word of it. Not when his chest still burned with the memory of Cassian’s voice, not when his instincts screamed louder than every headline combined. Not when his gut told him Cas
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  • The Bodyguards boy    BREAKPOINT

    Julian didn’t wait this time.The call ended.The decision followed.No space between.He sat still for exactly three seconds after Preston’s voice disappeared from the line long enough to confirm what he already knew.This wasn’t suspicion anymore.This was war.Julian leaned forward, resting his forearms on his knees, eyes fixed on the floor like he could see the board laid out beneath it.“Then we stop testing,” he said quietly.A guard passed.Ignored.Another inmate spoke somewhere down the hall.Irrelevant.Julian reached for the device again.One call.No hesitation.It connected immediately.“I want it done properly this time,” Julian said.No greeting.No context.The voice on the other end didn’t ask for it.“Location?”“His office won’t work,”

  • The Bodyguards boy    COLLISON

    The first sign wasn’t obvious.That’s why it worked.Preston was halfway through a meeting when his phone vibrated once against the table. He didn’t check it immediately. He never did. Not in front of people.Control was maintained in small habits.But something about the timingthe interruptionpulled his attention.He glanced down.One message.No name.No number.Just three words.They’ve started moving.Preston didn’t react.Didn’t pause the meeting.Didn’t shift.But insideeverything sharpened.“Continue,” he said calmly, leaning back in his chair.The man across from him resumed speaking, unaware that the room had just changed.Because Preston already knew what that message meant.Julian.—It didn’t take long.Taryn heard it bef

  • The Bodyguards boy    FAULTLINE

    Julian didn’t react immediately.That was what made it dangerous.He sat with the device in his hand long after the screen had gone dark, long after the last frame of Preston’s voice had stopped echoing in the silence. Most people would’ve responded quickly anger, denial, instinct.Julian did none of that.He watched.Replayed it in his head.Not the words.The tone.The certainty.“…we move forward.”Not hesitation.Not uncertainty.Forward.Without him.Julian leaned back slightly, fingers tightening almost imperceptibly around the edge of the device before he set it down.Carefully.Controlled.Because this wasn’t about the video.Not really.Videos could be manipulated.Voices could be cut.Moments could be rearranged.But intentionintention was harder to fake.And Prest

  • The Bodyguards boy    UNRAVEL

    Lennox didn’t sleep.Not properly.He lay still long enough for the room to go quiet, long enough for the city to dim into something distant but his mind never followed. It stayed sharp. Awake. Moving.Because nowthere was nothing holding it in place.Julian was gone.And with himthe structure Lennox had been forced to live inside.No instructions.No pressure.No voice telling him what came next.That should’ve felt like freedom.It didn’t.It felt like exposure.Because if Julian could fallthen everything connected to him could fall too.Including Lennox.He sat up, exhaling sharply, dragging a hand over his face.“This doesn’t end clean,” he muttered.It never did.And nowhe wasn’t going to stand in the middle and wait to be pulled under with it.He stood, grabbed his jacket, and lef

  • The Bodyguards boy    AFTERMATH

    The city didn’t settle.It shifted.The noise didn’t fade after Julian’s arrest it changed shape. What had been chaos sharpened into something more focused, more deliberate. Screens still glowed. Voices still carried. But now there was direction behind it.Questions.Names.Connections.And one name, more than any other, kept surfacing.Rowan.He saw it before anyone said it out loud.A passing glance at a screen in a café window. A headline scrolling too fast to fully read but slow enough to catch fragments.“…linked to”“…seen near”“…possible connection”Rowan didn’t stop walking.Didn’t react.But he saw it.And he understood what it meant.This hadn’t just taken Julian down.It had created space.And something had stepped into it.—Taryn caught up to him half a block later.“You’ve seen it,” she said.Not a question.Rowan didn’t slow.“Yes.”Her expression tightened slightly as she fell into step beside him. “It’s spreading faster than it should.”“It was always going to,” Rowa

  • The Bodyguards boy    EXPOSURE

    Cassian didn’t rush this one.The first video had been a spark.Thisthis was fire.The laptop sat open in front of him, the screen brighter now, filled with layered files, fragments, clips stitched together with deliberate precision. Not chaotic. Not overwhelming.Structured.Controlled.Every second chosen.Every frame intentional.Cassian leaned back slightly, eyes scanning the timeline one last time.There were no gaps.No weak points.No uncertainty.Where the first video suggestedthis one confirmed.Julian’s voice carried clearly in one segment.“…you don’t move them through the front. You route them where no one looks twice.”Another cut.Different angle.Different night.“…payments go through the secondary accounts. If they trace one, they don’t find the rest.”Another

  • The Bodyguards boy    Beneath the current

    Cold.That was the first thing he knew cold that wasn’t just on the surface, but deep, invasive, clawing into the marrow of his bones. The ocean swallowed him whole, pressing in from all sides as if determined to erase him. Cassian kicked instinctively, arms flailing through water that felt heavier

  • The Bodyguards boy    Ashes on the water

    Back in the city, Rowan was halfway to his apartment when his phone rang.Lennox.The words that came through were jagged, frantic:“Cassian’s… car explosion coastal highway the bridge”Rowan didn’t hear the rest. His chest caved in. He turned the car around so hard the tires shrieked, the world na

  • The Bodyguards boy    Over the edge

    The sun was already beginning its slow descent, casting golden fire over the city when Cassian stepped onto the penthouse terrace.Rows of low tables were draped in white linen, champagne buckets sweating against the humid air. The rooftop pool glittered like liquid crystal, its surface reflecting

  • The Bodyguards boy    White Lies

    The morning after felt deceptively ordinary.Sunlight spilled over the penthouse’s terrace, glinting off the half-assembled poolside bar. Staff in matching polos moved around briskly, adjusting white parasols, hanging shimmering paper lanterns, and arranging tables draped in ivory linen.Cassian s

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