"Sign the transfer, Kai. Or the girl’s lungs stop working in three minutes."Marcus Blackwood leaned against the mahogany desk, spinning a silver fountain pen between his fingers. He looked at me with a lazy, heavy-lidded stare that made my skin crawl. On the tablet between us, the live feed of Mei’s isolation room showed a nurse checking the oxygen levels."I signed the confession," I snapped. My hand went to the back of my neck, where the dart had left a swollen, throbbing knot. "I gave you what you wanted.""You gave Elinor what she wanted. I'm different. I want the codes." Marcus stood up, his shadow stretching across the floor. "The Blackwood offshore accounts. Alexander had the primary key embedded in his biometric signature. Which means it’s in yours now.""I don't have them.""Then your sister doesn't have a heartbeat." He tapped the screen. The nurse in the video paused, her hand hovering over a red dial. "Choose, Kai. Be a ghost or be a brother."I lunged. My hands went for
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