All Chapters of MAFIA:LOVE AND SECRETS : Chapter 21 - Chapter 30

Elias felt the buzz before he saw the words.The tracker vibrated against his ribs like a living thing, urgent and wrong. He pulled it out as he moved, already heading for the vehicle, already knowing because instincts like his didn’t wait for confirmation.TARGET MOVING.SUBJECT: MARIA.CLEARANCE: TERMINATE.For a split second, the world went quiet.Then it burned.“Son of a” Elias slammed the car door shut and threw it into gear, gravel screaming beneath the tires as he tore down the mountain road. His hands were steady. His mind was not.Specter never issued kill orders lightly.Which meant Maria had crossed a line he couldn’t allow to exist.Maria felt it too not the message, but the shift.The escort vehicle that had taken her down the mountain moved too smoothly now, the silence inside too complete. No radio chatter. No casual glances. Just forward motion.Controlled.She studied her reflection in the dark window and saw it then the faint red dot trembling on the glass.A laser

The order was clear.Cold.Final.“Kill Elias. Now.”The words came through the soldiers’ headsets all at once.Outside the mountain, the men aiming their guns at Elias stiffened. Fingers tightened on triggers. They had followed Specter for years. His orders were never questioned.Until now.Elias stood behind the damaged vehicle, breathing hard, blood running down his arm. He didn’t run. He didn’t beg.He lifted his head and looked straight at them.“If you pull that trigger,” he said loudly, “you’re not ending a war. You’re starting one you won’t survive.”Some of the soldiers hesitated.Some didn’t.The first shot missed his head by inches.Elias dove, rolling as bullets ripped through the metal beside him. He fired back, fast and sharp. One soldier fell. Another dropped his weapon and ran.Then the ground shook.Hard.So hard that everyone stumbled.The mountain cracked with a deep, loud boom, like thunder coming from the earth itself.“What is that?” someone shouted.Then they sa

The alarms did not stop.They screamed from Maria’s phone, Elias’s tablet, and the small radio on the floor. Red lights flashed on every screen. Locations popped up one after another, spreading across the map like a sickness.Five points.Five threats.Maria felt her chest tighten. “They’re waking up… all of them.”Elias stared at the map. “Not all,” he said slowly. “One is already awake.”Vega.Outside, the town was still quiet, but the sirens from far away grew louder. Something bad was happening somewhere else. Maria could feel it, like a storm rolling in before the rain.Elias grabbed his jacket. “We can’t stay here.”“Where do we go?” Maria asked.Elias hesitated. “There’s only one place that might have answers.”He pulled up an old symbol on the screen. A faded logo shaped like an eye.“The Archive,” he said. “Where Specter keeps his deepest secrets.”Maria’s heart skipped. “You said it was destroyed.”“So did they,” Elias replied. “That usually means it wasn’t.”They moved fast

The sky did not close.Even after Morrow disappeared into the clouds, the crack in the sky stayed there glowing, shaking, spreading like broken glass.Maria and Elias stood outside the ruined Archive, dust and wind swirling around them.“It’s not a storm,” Elias said quietly.Maria shook her head. “It’s her.”Far above them, light flashed again. Not red like Helios. Not dark like Nyx.White.Blinding white.Then everything went quiet.Too quiet.No wind.No birds.No distant sirens.Even the trees seemed frozen.Maria felt it first.A strange pressure inside her head.Like someone whispering without using words.Don’t be afraid.She grabbed her temples. “Elias… do you hear that?”Elias looked pale. “Yes.”The whisper grew louder.I had to leave.Maria’s eyes widened. “Morrow.”The sky shimmered, and slowly very slowly the light above began to form a shape.A person.Floating.Watching.Morrow hovered high above the ground, her white clothes moving gently in the air. Her eyes glowed br

The sky was no longer their sky.It looked like someone had ripped a hole in the world and forgotten to close it.Strange stars burned overhead sharp and cold. They were too bright. Too close. They did not blink like normal stars.Maria felt like she couldn’t breathe.“That’s not possible,” she whispered.Elias stared at his device, but it had stopped working. The screen was frozen, covered in strange symbols.“It’s not just light,” he said. “It’s a doorway.”Above the city, the black opening grew wider. The strange stars moved slowly, like they were watching.Vega’s towers glowed brighter. Energy beams shot upward from each one, holding the tear in the sky open.Helios blasted fire into the darkness again, but it disappeared like a match in the ocean.Orion raised walls of water to protect the coast as the wind became violent.Morrow floated higher than all of them now, glowing pure white, trying to push the rip closed.But the darkness pushed back.Vega’s voice echoed from every tow