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Chapter 19: The Dinner

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The city never really slept, but tonight, its pulse seemed sharper—brighter—like it sensed the storm brewing underneath its glass-and-steel skin.

Rowan Adair’s car cut through the streets like a blade through silk. The tinted windows reflected streaks of light, and his jaw was locked in that quiet, dangerous calm that only came when he was close to breaking.

Kenneth Dunlap’s voice still echoed in his head.

> “It’s about Marcelline. Tonight—”

Then gunfire.

Silence.

He’d replayed that moment
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