LOGINShare
Chapter 24
Last Updated:
2025-08-18 05:27:35
Latest chapter
The Night Boss Chapter 48
Rico crouched in the narrow crawlspace of an abandoned storage facility, his back pressed against the cold concrete wall. The air was thick with dust, heavy with the stench of mold and rusting iron. He had been hiding for days, surviving on scraps and food and water he has stole from Marquez's warehouse almost finished. His lips were cracked, his hands trembling with weakness, but his mind—his mind was sharper than ever. Fear had a way of carving edges into thoughts, and paranoia sharpened them into blades.The news had reached him in whispers, through the voices of men who came to dump things in the area and through rumors carried in the city’s underbelly. He was no longer running from one man, but he was running from three.The Boss.Kross.Salvatore Marquez.Three names, three powers. Three storms colliding over one boy.He bit the inside of his cheek, tasting blood, forcing himself to stay awake. The memory of the voices he had overheard only days ago burned fresh in his mind.> “
The Night Boss Chapter 47
The shop was no longer the fortress it used to be. For years, The Boss’s Shop had been the heart of stability in the underground: a place where negotiations were struck, debts were collected, and punishments handed out cleanly. But now, with Rico gone and The Boss consumed by his obsession with finding him, the structure had started to creak like an old ship bracing against a storm.It was in this weakened state that the Ravers—an ambitious and reckless faction from the northern blocks—sensed their chance.The Ravers had always been trouble. Their leader, Victor “Vic” Navarro, was notorious for his unrelenting hunger for expansion. Where most gangs valued balance and survival, Vic wanted chaos. He thrived in it. He used the Ravers’ youth and ruthlessness to destabilize older, more established organizations. His philosophy was simple: strike when your enemy is distracted, then feast on the ruins.And right now, The Boss was more distracted than he had ever been.Inside the shop, morale
The Night Boss Chapter 46
The Boss’s shop was no longer the same.Once, it had been the beating heart of their corner of the city—always alive, buzzing, full of swagger and smoke, boys laughing as they polished guns or shuffled cards, the smell of fresh bread from the bakery down the street mixing with the scent of oil and gasoline from the cars. The Boss had run it like a machine: efficient, relentless, and loyal. His voice had carried through the air like a church bell, sharp enough to bring silence, calm enough to soothe quarrels before they became fights.But now, the place had fallen into a strange silence.The Boss himself was the root of it, he no longer sat at his usual desk in the back office, cigar between his fingers, issuing orders like clockwork. He no longer gave his trademark smirk that told the men everything was under control, that every debt would be collected, every enemy handled, every job a success.Instead, he sat slumped most days, staring at a wall, a glass of whiskey sweating in his ha
The Night Boss Chapter 45
Now, the city seemed louder than ever, though to Rico it was all muffled by the walls of yet another temporary shelter. He had found a crumbling flat on the edge of an abandoned block, the kind of place the police didn’t patrol and the gangs had already stripped bare. It was no home—rats scuttled along the corners, pipes groaned with the ghost of water that hadn’t run in years, and the air reeked of mildew. But it was a roof, and for now, that was enough.Days had bled into nights, and nights into more restless days. Hunger gnawed at him once again, like a beast that never tired. He rationed every crumb, drank stale water caught in a rusted tin from a leaky gutter. His body was thin, weaker than it had been even weeks ago, yet his spirit fought to cling to survival.He thought he had escaped one trap only to fall into another. Salvatore Marquez had been kind, yes, and his words had carried weight. There had been something almost fatherly in the way he spoke, in the way he offered food
The Night Boss Chapter 44
The city had never seemed so vast, so endless and so full of shadows. Kross stood at the balcony of a rundown hotel on the east end of the industrial district, staring out at the maze of alleyways, warehouses, and broken streets below. His men were already scattered, fanning out like wolves on a scent, but the quarry they hunted seemed to vanish at every turn. Rico. The boy had become more ghost than flesh.Every night for weeks, the search grew more desperate. Every morning, Kross awoke with the same gnawing frustration—how could someone so young, so unprepared, continually slip through the nets he had cast? It wasn’t just about pride anymore; it was about connection. Kross told himself that he was only trying to settle debts, to reward the boy for what had happened with the cartel. But beneath that was something rawer and something...“Boss,” a voice called from the hall.Kross turned, one of his men, Juno, leaned in the doorway, shoulders broad beneath a leather jacket, his eyes ti
The Night Boss Chapter 43
The discovery came at dawn.One of Salvatore Marquez’s men pushed open the warehouse door, expecting to find Rico asleep in his makeshift corner. The blanket was still there, crumpled on the cold floor, but the boy was gone. The tin plate, scraped clean of last night’s food, was left neatly in the corner as if to announce his departure.The soldier cursed under his breath and ran back upstairs to the office. “Boss! He’s gone.”Salvatore Marquez had been awake already, nursing a bitter coffee, his eyes red from the weight of too many plans unraveling at once. The words sank into him, like stones into water. He didn’t answer at first. He simply placed the cup down with deliberate calm, his knuckles whitening as he pushed it away.“Check the perimeter,” he said. “Every alley, every rooftop. He couldn’t have gotten far.”But even as his orders echoed through the warehouse, a hollowness spread inside him. Rico had been clever enough to survive the hunt of two of the most powerful men in th
You may also like
Never Mine To Love
StarsTouch pen5.5K viewsOwned on the Ice M/M Romance
E L Simon4.8K viewsLucian's Undoing
Anonymous Lee2.8K viewsBreak The Ice
BlueHaze25.7K viewsCloseted Desires
GemJade3.5K viewsClaimed By The Mafia Boss
Anonymous Lee5.8K viewsEnemies to lovers
Lavidel1.3K viewsStripper by Night, Doctor by Deception
Callie5.5K views
