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There were hundreds of black SUVs in New York City. The next cab was hers. She climbed in and was instantly assaulted by the smell of hot pastrami. She leaned forward to give the driver the address and noticed his half-eaten sandwich resting on a sheet of crumpled foil in the front seat. The taxi lurched forward, making her fall back. "New Rochelle?" the driver asked as he careened onto the avenue, headed north toward Central Park. Aya glanced back. The SUV was pulling away from the curb. Oh, great. Her taxi made a right turn. She took a deep breath, waited, then looked back. The SUV was turning. Dammit!

I muttered. Luca checked his screen. “No meetings on his calendar. No court appearances. This is off.” Nathan moved fast, confident. He got into a silver car with tinted windows and took off. We followed from a distance, weaving through Manhattan traffic. “He’s not headed to Midtown,” Luca said, eyes narrowing. “He’s taking the bridge.” “To Brooklyn?” I asked. “To the docks.” The words sent a cold shiver down my spine. Ten minutes later, we parked at the edge of the industrial district, a rusted warehouses and an abandoned trailers. The kind of place you don’t walk through alone at night.

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Asher Bruce drives us to the meeting. I ride shotgun, hands loose, mind tight. We kept the convoy small to look uninteresting on the approach to the Manhattan Bridge. “Two lanes up,” Bruce says, voice calm as a metronome. “Box van drifting, no plates.” I watch the reflection in the window. A cheap cube truck creeping to match our speed. On the pedestrian path, a shadow keeps pace, coat too heavy for the weather, backpack too heavy for a tourist.

Tabitha replied. "I haven't either. Let's go to Manhattan Steakhouse," Tabitha suggested. "Manhattan Steakhouse" was a steak restaurant that they used to frequent often, holding many of their sweet memories. Upon hearing this suggestion, Derek quickly took out his phone and made a call to book a table. After booking the table, Derek held the steering wheel with one hand and slowly turned the car around. Tabitha sat in the passenger seat, silent, her eyes gazing out the window as if she were thinking.

The brownstone on a tree-lined street in Brooklyn didn't scream power; it whispered permanence. It was a structure of red brick and ivy, with a heavy oak door that bore the scars of a century’s worth of winters. There were no retinal scanners here, no haptic feedback floors, and no bioluminescent blue lights. As the '74 Ford truck idled at the curb, the engine's rattle felt like a heartbeat finally slowing down. Ethan sat with his hands still gripped around the steering wheel. His "chiseled" features were bathed in the soft, amber glow of a New York streetlamp—the kind that didn't record data, but simply lit the way home.

Not after what went down. A car was waiting for us. Black bulletproof SUV. Windows tinted. Just as I ordered. “Alex,” I said as soon as the doors closed, “there’s a spot in the Bronx. Alejandro said I will find the shipment there. Can you confirm that for me?” “The Bronx?” Alex raised an eyebrow. “All this time and it’s been right here in this city?” “Yeah.” I nodded. “ I don't know if I should be believe him yet but just check it out first?”

Not when my lungs still felt like they’d been vacuum-sealed by the lawyer’s words. Instead, I turned sharply down St Gregory Drive, the city swallowing me up as I pulled into a narrow alley tucked between a nail spa and a boarded-up bookstore. There, crouched in the shadow of Manhattan’s glittering façade, Kathrine’s Eatry—the kind of restaurant only those in the know ever talked about.

“That Adriano guy was right. Ambulance was chipped, had a tracker that could be followed.” Adriano straightened slightly at that. “I tracked it,” Lowis continued, then paused. Too long. We all felt it. “Where?” Liam pushed. “A truck stop in Harlem.” I blinked. What? Where we wrong? Was this a random grab fot a joyride? But the IT guy Jerry was still speaking. “That’s midway between the Bronx and Midtown,” Lowis added. “Looks like a temporary stop. Might not get much—most of the truckers have probably cleared out—but if there’s CCTV, it could give us something.”

Not long after, I saw one and flagged it down, the driver of the truck stuck his head out of the window and hollered at me "hey big guy, how'ya doing?" he was a very fat man, who wore loose fitted dungarees, a massive dreadlock and had plenty tattoos and piercings. "I'm headed to New York city" I replied "hmm, New York, I see. I'm headed there meself, hop in" he said jovially. I hopped in.