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Chapter 27 : The Warden's Invitation
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The Return Of Killian Dante Chapter 27 : The Warden's Invitation
The drive to the outskirts of the city took forty minutes, Chen navigating from memory alone, refusing to explain how he still knew every back road leading toward a prison neither of them was supposed to be able to find without official clearance."You're not actually planning to walk up to the front gate," Chen said, breaking the silence somewhere past the last cluster of streetlights. "Killian. Tell me that's not the plan.""It's not the plan." Killian watched the landscape thin out, trees replacing buildings, the road narrowing until it barely qualified as one. "The warden doesn't take unscheduled visitors. He'll know I'm coming before I'm close enough to see the walls. Which means the only way in is if he decides he wants to see me.""And you think he will.""I think a man who's been orchestrating my entire life since I walked through his gates isn't going to pass up the chance to finally have this conversation face to face." Killian's voice was steady, certain in a way that unset
The Return Of Killian Dante Chapter 26 : The Mark of Deadmoo
Killian stared at the symbol until the noise of the street around him seemed to fall away entirely.He'd seen that mark carved above Deadmoo's entrance the first day they dragged him through the gates — a jagged circle split by three lines, burned into every cell door, stamped on every uniform, tattooed on the wrist of every guard who'd ever worked inside those walls. The warden's mark. Not decoration. A brand. A reminder that everything inside Deadmoo belonged to one man, and one man alone."That's impossible," Killian said quietly. "The warden doesn't leave Deadmoo. Ever. He hasn't set foot outside those walls in eleven years — it's practically law inside there. He runs the prison from the inside because the outside world doesn't know he exists.""Then either the mark got out," Chen said, voice tight, "or someone who used to belong to him did."Killian's mind raced back through two years of faces, guards who'd rotated in and out, Doomers who'd occasionally been transferred or releas
The Return Of Killian Dante Chapter 25: Someone Else's Game
The office fell silent except for the reporter's voice, still cycling through the same three facts dressed up in increasingly urgent language — missing, struggle, no suspect named. Elias hadn't moved from his chair, staring at the screen like it might correct itself if he waited long enough."If Jack's gone," Elias said finally, "then whoever took him already knows about Meridian Holdings. Which means my two days just became considerably less than that.""Or it has nothing to do with the money." Killian was already running through the list of people with a reason to want Jack Moore removed, and the list was longer than it should have been for a man who'd faked his own death to avoid exactly this kind of attention. "Sarto works for whoever pays him. If someone paid him more to take Jack instead of protect him—""Sarto wouldn't turn on a client mid-contract. It would end his business permanently. No one in that world would ever hire him again." Elias's jaw tightened. "Which means this w
The Return Of Killian Dante Chapter 24: The Man Who Knew Too Soon
Elias Frank's office sat on the ninth floor — one level below Cassandra's, close enough to the center of power to matter, far enough to look modest. Killian didn't wait for an escort. He walked straight through the glass doors while Elias was mid-sentence on a call, and simply stood there until the man hung up."Mr. Dante." Elias rose from his desk, smoothing his tie, composure sliding into place a half-second too smoothly. "I wasn't expecting you in person.""You warned me about Sarto two hours before anyone else in this building knew his name." Killian didn't sit. "I want to know how."Elias's expression flickered — not guilt exactly, something closer to a man recalculating how much to admit. "I have contacts who monitor threats against this company's interests. You're currently tangled up in Ashbourne Group's most public scandal in a decade. Anything that touches Jack Moore touches us.""That's not an answer. That's a deflection dressed up as one." Killian took a slow step closer,
The Return Of Killian Dante Chapter 23: Inside The Ashbourne Walls
The Ashbourne Group lobby hadn't changed in two years — the same marble, the same oversized company crest hanging behind reception, the same hush that money bought when it wanted to feel important. What had changed was the way people looked at Killian when he walked through the doors this time.Nobody stopped him. A junior receptionist who couldn't have been older than twenty-two actually stood halfway up from her desk, phone already lifting to snap a photo before she caught herself and sat back down, cheeks flushing."Mr. Dante." Her voice cracked slightly on his name. "Is — is there someone I can call up for you?""Diane Ashbourne. Tell her it's urgent."She was already dialing before he'd finished the sentence.He rode the elevator up alone, the ten floors ticking past in silence, running Elias Frank's warning against the strange, careful text that had followed it. Someone inside this building — someone with access to Diane's private terminal, someone who understood exactly how to
The Return Of Killian Dante Chapter 22: Sarto's Reach
"Who's Sarto?" Sawyer's voice had gone thin, the fear she'd walked in with sharpening into something closer to panic now that Killian's calm had cracked into urgency."Someone Jack apparently pays to make problems disappear." Killian steered her away from the glass front of the lobby, out of any sightline from the street. "Chen — get her to the service elevator. I want her somewhere that isn't a documented guest room."Chen was already moving, a hand light on Sawyer's shoulder, guiding her toward the staff corridor with the kind of unhurried authority that made people follow without thinking to argue. "This way. Quickly, not frantically. Frantic gets noticed."Sawyer went, glancing back once at Killian. "What about you?""I'm not the one they're worried about finding." Killian's eyes stayed on the street beyond the glass, though the sedan was long gone. "You are. You heard something you weren't supposed to hear, and now you're the only living proof Jack said the word 'accident' out lo
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