Chapter One Micah’s POV “Shit… no, no, no—” I cursed silently under my breath. “Just a few seconds more.” My fingers flew across the key, code blurring into gibberish as alarms screamed inside my headset. I’d been in the system for less than ninety seconds, and I was supposed to be out in sixty. The warehouse was dead silent, except for the soft hum of my laptop and the occasional drip of water echoing from the pipes overhead. Crouched behind a rusted stack of crates, bathed in the blue glow of my screen, I typed fast, adrenaline surging like a live wire under my skin. This wasn’t my cleanest job. Hell, it wasn’t even close. But I didn’t have the luxury of clean anymore. My rent was three months overdue, debt collectors were circling like vultures, and the hospital bills for Mom’s chemo were a noose around my neck. I needed this money. The cartel contact, a slimy bastard named Rico, had promised me fifteen grand for access to a shipping manifest. Just some “private importer’
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