Chapter 61: The Past Burns, the Hunters ComeThe rain hit like a bastard with a personal vendetta the second we cleared the alley. Cold, heavy, relentless, the kind that soaked through tactical fabric and found every cut, every bruise, every place the body still remembered being opened. My side throbbed under the fresh pad, a deep, ugly pulse that matched the hammering of the downpour on the concrete. Aryan moved half a step ahead, silent, the titanium cylinder and the data strip sealed against his chest like they were the only things keeping the world from splitting open.Two external guards under the leaking awning. One still smoking, the cherry of the cigarette a tiny orange eye in the dark. The other had his weight on the wrong foot, eyes tracking the street instead of the service approach. Neither of them looked ready for what was coming. That was the problem with residual operators who had spent too long waiting for someone else to give the order. Desperation made them twitchy. C
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