Chapter 109 Christian:The mine dust still clung to my clothes, settling in the fibres like the echo of the screams Molloy had left behind, buried underneath the mine I had destroyed. The metallic tang of earth sat in the back of my throat, sour and cold. For hours after we left, I could still hear the clank of chains, the low mechanical rumble of deep drilling, and the quiet calculations behind Molloy’s cautious eyes as he watched us drive off.I didn’t trust him. I never trusted him in the first place. He was new to the business and had no loyalty, and besides, he had nothing backing him; he was a fly, going anywhere he pleased. Flies were easy to squash.We had barely reached the car when Matteo turned to me, already reading the shift in my breathing and the way I worked my jaw to crack the tension grinding inside it. We had known each other long enough that silence between us became language, fluent, sharp, unavoidable.“Well,” Matteo drawled, brushing mine dust off his jacket s
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