Chapter 41: The Lock Is Already InsideThe morphine was a lying bastard with a velvet tongue. It wrapped the white-hot spike in my side in soft lies and whispered that I could still shoot, still breathe, still tell the universe to go fuck itself with a rusty bayonet. The blood knew better. It kept seeping through the fresh packing, warm and sticky, soaking the waistband of what used to be pants and pooling under my bare ass on the cot like it had a personal grudge.I stayed down. Barely. Sidearm braced across my thighs, the blue emergency LEDs turning every shadow into something that wanted a piece of me. Aryan moved like the night had been built for him—silent, precise, shotgun already shouldered as he took position at the reinforced window shutters. One body already cooling outside from his first suppressed shot. Kabir had counted six heat signatures on thermal. One down. Five left. All of them professionals who didn’t waste bullets on warnings.“Talk to me, Kabir,” Aryan murmured in
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