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The desert burns

Author: C.s miracle
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The heat of the Moroccan desert felt alive—breathing down Bain’s neck like a curse.

Nightfall cloaked the sky in ink as his convoy moved silently across the dunes. Viktor sat beside him in the lead vehicle, drone feeds streaming live into their tactical tablets. The facility ahead had been listed in the black ledger under a false import company: Zahara Holdings. From the outside, it looked like a dilapidated warehouse tucked between two abandoned oil refineries.

But Bain knew better.

This was no warehouse.

It was a graveyard.

“Thermal scan shows at least twenty heat signatures inside,” Viktor said. “Mostly stationary. Guard patrols on rotation every fifteen minutes. Cameras run on internal loop systems. No exterior defense beyond the sand.”

“That’s because they don’t expect anyone to come out here,” Bain muttered. “Good.”

Ten minutes later, silence shattered.

Smoke bombs. Breach charges. The hiss of steel sliding against steel.

Bain moved like a ghost—efficient, brutal. His team fanne
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