The safehouse felt smaller with every passing hour. Kendall sat cross-legged on the couch, laptop balanced on her knees, watching grainy security footage of the warehouse fight over and over. Jack moved like a shadow, quick, precise, deadly.It scared her a little. Not because she doubted him, but because she realized how much of him she still didn’t know.Jack stood by the window, phone to his ear. “Rourke, I need the files ready in twenty-four hours. Everything we have on Marcus the smuggling routes, the offshore accounts, the political bribes. We’re going to bury him.”When he hung up, Kendall closed the laptop. “And if that’s not enough?”He met her eyes. “Then we go for him directly.”That night, the rain eased into a thin fog. Jack spread a city map on the table. He marked three red circles one at the docks, one at an abandoned casino, and one in a district Kendall didn’t recognize.“These are his anchor points,” Jack said. “Places he still has control over. The casino’s where
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