Chapter 329

• VALENTINA
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• The hallway felt longer than it ever had, every step echoing like a heartbeat I couldn’t outrun. I clutched the small black phone I had found tucked behind the books in Gustavo’s study, its screen still warm from recent use. My hands wouldn’t stop shaking. The messages I had scrolled through burned behind my eyes—coordinates, photos of a woman and a little girl, instructions that made my stomach twist with nausea.
• Bring them to the secondary safe house. Keep them sedated until the boss decides.