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The Confrontation

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Dante POV

The silence in my office didn’t feel like peace. It felt like the split second before a building collapses.

I was still staring at the black screen of the tablet, my mind stuck on her words. Sanity. She wanted my sanity.

Looking at the blood dripping from my bandaged arm onto the desk, I figured she was halfway there already.

Then the noise started. Not a hit. No gunshots. Just a faint sound from the floors down. It spread through the building like a fever, low at first, then gr
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