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Nobody answered the text.Gideon set the phone face down on the dashboard like it might do something on its own if left unwatched, and for a long moment the three of them sat in the church parking lot in a silence that felt thicker than the one before it, broken only by the tick of the engine cooling."We're not meeting a stranger who already knows about the list," Gideon said finally, still watching the phone like it might light up again on its own. "Not without knowing who's sending it.""Agreed." Elena hadn't looked up from the laptop once. "But whoever sent it knew about the list before we did. That's not something Draeger's people would tip their hand on. If anything, it reads like somebody trying to get ahead of Draeger, not somebody working for him, which is a different kind of dangerous than what we've dealt with so far.""I'd sit on it. See what else surfaces first." Roland's voice carried the flat caution of a man who'd been burnt by exactly this kind of message before; in so

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Volkov Moves First

Roland's cabin sat deeper into the woods than the last one, reachable only by a dirt track that wound through timber for the better part of a mile before opening onto a clearing with a single-storey structure and a satellite dish bolted crooked to the roof, the whole place looking like it hadn't seen a fresh coat of paint in a decade."Internet's slow, but it's private," Roland said, unlocking the door, keys jangling against the old wood. "Nobody's traced this address to me in eleven years. I intend to keep it that way."Elena had her laptop set up on the kitchen table within minutes, decryption running in the background while she split her attention across three other windows, one of them a live feed of financial news she kept muted in the corner of the screen. Ivy sat across from her, going through her father's folder page by page now that there was finally time to read it properly, and Gideon paced the small living room the way he always did when there was nothing left to do but wa

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Volkov Moves First