JarekThe call came at four seventeen the next afternoon.I knew the time because I had been staring at the clock when Marcus’s phone rang.Not because Sable was downstairs.Progress.Marcus answered on the second ring, listened for less than five seconds, then stood so fast the chair scraped across the floor. When I asked what happened, he looked straight at me.“Middletown Motor Works.”Everything in me changed.The Daggers owned the shop through a legitimate company handling motorcycle repair, parts, and fleet work. The front doors were closed for inventory, leaving Bryce, Smitty, and two trusted mechanics inside. The back office held years of old vendor invoices and local camera archives. At that morning’s operations briefing, we had assigned Stone and Nixx to pull those records tomorrow because two names from Mateo’s ledger appeared in old files. Enough brothers had heard that plan to make the timing a problem.Marcus put the phone on speaker, and Bryce’s voice came through over
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