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The Real Target

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Dante POV

“Run it again.”

The guard didn’t argue, but I saw the way his shoulders tensed for a second before his fingers went back to the keyboard. He pulled up the same feeds we’d already picked apart twice. I stayed right where I was, leaning over the desk with my arms crossed tight, staring at that big screen like I could make it show me something different if I looked hard enough.

It didn’t. It was the same clean routes. Same perfect timestamps. Same smooth-as-glass execution that didn’
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