Chapter 131

~ROOK~Darkness doesn’t announce itself. It settles, and that’s what most people don’t understand. They expect violence to arrive loud, dramatic, obvious. Raised voices. Broken glass. Sirens. But the real danger slips in soft, like a breath held too long. Like a room going quiet because everyone felt something shift and didn’t know why.The compound felt like that tonight. Not tense. Not panicked…alert.I stood on the upper walkway overlooking the yard, forearms resting against the railing, eyes moving slow and deliberate. Counting patterns. Logging changes. The bikes were lined up the same way they always were, but the spacing was tighter. Intentional. People clustered without meaning to. Nobody wandered.That told me everything. Fear scatters people. Preparation pulls them together.Below me, Marlowe sat at one of the long tables near the fire pit with Tonya and Ginger, hands wrapped around a mug she hadn’t touched in ten minutes. She looked calm if you didn’t know what calm cost. He

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Chapter 132

~TORIN~The job had rules. Not the ones written down in binders with laminated tabs and cheerful acronyms. The real ones. The ones you learned the hard way, or you didn’t live long enough to learn at all.Rule one: if something feels easy, it’s usually a trap. Rule two: the first thing a traitor steals is your sense of normal.By day seven on this assignment, normal didn’t exist.We were operating out of a rented industrial space that smelled like old oil and new lies, the kind of place you could park a box truck in and disappear a man in the back room without anyone asking why. The lights buzzed. The concrete sweated. Our comms station sat on a folding table that wobbled if you breathed on it too hard.I stood over the table with a map spread out and my shoulders tight, not from the paper, but from the pressure of holding everything in my head at once. Entry points. Sightlines. The route we’d run twice already. The route we weren’t supposed to run again.My phone stayed face-down in m

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Chapter 133

After the briefing, the others dispersed. Calder moved with intent, rechecking gear and collecting his men like he was building a wall around us. Mercer stayed at the comms table, fingers flying, sweat gathering at his hairline.Harlow drifted toward the back like he had all the time in the world.I followed him without making it obvious.He stopped near the loading bay door and pulled out his phone, holding it low. One thumb moved fast across the screen. Then he looked up, caught me watching, and didn’t flinch.“Problem?” he asked, voice light.I kept my face flat. “You texting your wife?” I asked, letting it sound like sarcasm.Harlow’s mouth curved. “You jealous?”I stepped closer, slow. “No,” I said. “I’m careful.”His smile didn’t change, but his eyes sharpened a fraction. “Careful gets men dead when it turns into paranoia.”“Paranoia gets men dead when it turns into trust,” I answered.We stood there for a beat. The air between us tightened, not because either of us moved, but be

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Chapter 134

I learned something long ago: you don’t confront a traitor the moment you realize he exists. That’s how people end up dead with questions still in their mouths.You wait. You watch. You let him believe he’s the one steering.The car rolled on through the city like nothing had changed, engine steady, tires whispering over asphalt. Harlow sat beside me, relaxed, one arm braced against the door like this was just another night run. His calm was practiced. Rehearsed.It pissed me off how good he was at it.“Route change,” Calder’s voice cut through the comms, tight but controlled. “You didn’t signal.”“I saw congestion ahead,” I replied evenly. “Adjusting.”A pause. Just a beat too long.Then Calder said, “Copy.”Harlow glanced at me, head tilting slightly. “You always drive like this?”“Like what?” I asked.He shrugged. “Like you’re expecting company.”I kept my eyes on the road. “I’m always expecting company.”He chuckled under his breath. “That kind of thinking’ll shave years off your l

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Lahat ng Kabanata ng Raven's MC Series; Marlowe & Torin -Book One of the series: Kabanata 131 - Kabanata 134

Chapter 131

Chapter 132

Chapter 133

Chapter 134