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Chapter 95: Shadows Closing In
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2026-06-03 03:21:10
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Contracted to the man who broke me Chapter 132: The next Move
Ghost Rider's POVFailure was an unpleasant thing to acknowledge, but refusing to acknowledge it was what got people killed.The operation had been planned for months. Every possible route Adrian could take had been studied, every contingency weighed against another until the odds leaned in my favor. It had never been about predicting the exact road he would choose. Adrian wasn't foolish enough to make himself that easy to read.No, the real game had always been understanding the man behind the decisions.Most people believed Adrian's greatest strength was that he was unpredictable. They looked at the empire he had built and assumed every victory came from instinct alone. They admired his ability to improvise under pressure, convinced that no one could ever stay one step ahead of him.They were wrong.No one, no matter how intelligent, escaped their own nature.Adrian always had priorities. Protect the consignment. Keep casualties within his own ranks to a minimum. Preserve an escape
Contracted to the man who broke me Chapter 131: Looking for the Crack
Adrian's POVBy the time we reached the estate, the sky had fully surrendered to morning.The mansion was already awake. Guards moved through the compound with quiet efficiency, replacing the night shift while others secured the vehicles returning from the operation. To anyone else, it would have looked like another ordinary morning.There was nothing ordinary about it.I hadn't bothered changing. The dried blood beneath my jacket had stiffened against my shirt, and every step reminded me that Damian had been right—I needed stitches. That could wait.Answers came first.The two men captured during the ambush had already been taken below the mansion, into the basement holding rooms. They'd been searched, restrained, and separated before we arrived. Standard procedure. If they had rehearsed a story, isolation would make it harder to stick to it.Damian caught up beside me as we descended the concrete staircase."The doctor's waiting upstairs.""He can keep waiting."His jaw tightened."
Contracted to the man who broke me Chapter 130: I kept my Promise
Adrian's POVWe came through the service road's exit and rejoined the main route at exactly 6:14 in the morning.Seven minutes inside Castellano's delivery window.It wasn't perfect, but it was close enough. In my world, close enough only mattered when the result spoke louder than the delay.The airstrip lay beneath a gray, colorless dawn, wrapped in the kind of silence that only arrived after a violent night. Not because nothing had happened, but because everything had already happened somewhere else. The aftermath lingered in the air while the world quietly moved on.Castellano's private cargo plane waited on the tarmac, its engines still silent beneath the glow of floodlights that had yet to be switched off. Four of his men stood near the perimeter fence, dressed in dark suits, their expressions unreadable. None of them shifted impatiently. None glanced at their watches. They simply waited.Professional men knew waiting was part of the job.Beyond them, another cargo aircraft taxied
Contracted to the man who broke me Chapter 129: The South Entrance
Adrian's POVIt didn't go cleanly.It never did.For a brief moment, I'd allowed myself to believe tonight might be one of those rare operations where every piece fell exactly into place. Experience should have told me better. Plans weren't made because they worked perfectly—they were made to give you something to adapt from when everything inevitably went wrong. No operation ever survived first contact with the enemy exactly as imagined.Tonight proved that once again.From inside the surveillance van, I watched the live feeds from the port through six different monitors mounted across the wall. One camera tracked Noah's convoy as it approached the main route while another overlooked the overpass. The remaining screens covered the loading docks, container yard, and the cargo ship where the final transfer would take place. Every movement was being monitored."So far, so good," Reeves murmured from beside me, his eyes fixed on one of the screens.I gave a small nod but didn't answer.T
Contracted to the man who broke me Chapter 128: The Service Road
Adrian's POVThe way I sensed it before it happened. The calm before the storm has finally taken a blow. Awakening me from the relaxing slumber I was drifting too.The call came at 4:47 in the morning.I was already awake.I had not slept, not properly, but had my eyes closed. As I had been at my desk since two in the afternoon, going over the route maps Damian had sent through, tracing the transfer points with a finger that kept stopping at the same stretch of road. The eleven kilometer corridor between Porto Castellano's private freight dock and the airstrip. Flat terrain. Three blind curves. One overpass.It was the overpass that bothered me.I had looked at it for almost an hour before the phone rang. Something about it sat wrong in my gut, the way a bad feeling sits before you can name it. I told myself I was being careful. I told myself that was the job. Still, I had circled it twice in red ink before I even knew why.When my phone lit up with Damian's name, I already knew it wa
Contracted to the man who broke me Chapter 127: Silence before the Storm
Adrian's POVThe security room was dim, lit only by the cold blue glow of dozens of surveillance monitors covering the entire wall in front of me. The constant hum of the servers blended with the quiet clicking of keyboards as my security team worked around the clock.Nobody spoke unless they had something important to report. They knew better than to break the silence on nights like these.Tonight wasn't just another shipment.This consignment had taken months of planning, negotiations, bribes, and blood to put together. Too many people had their eyes on it, waiting for a single mistake.One leak.One careless move.One opportunity.And I never intended to give them one.I sat in the chair at the center of the room, leaning slightly forward with my forearms resting on my thighs. My fingers remained loosely intertwined beneath my chin while my gaze shifted continuously between the monitors. Every screen showed a different part of the port—the container yard, the loading bays, the cran
Contracted to the man who broke me Chapter 96: The Name He Carried
Adrian's POVThe dark camouflaged but big Mansion stood in complete darkness when we arrived. The armed guards opened the big steel iron gates and my car rolled inside. They bowed slightly to show gratitude and respect while I held a stern emotionless face.As I glance up through the window I see t
Contracted to the man who broke me Chapter 93: The Hand I Chose
Ethan's POVThe party had slowly become louder as the night progressed.People moved from one conversation to another with effortless smiles, glasses clinking softly beneath the warm glow of chandeliers. Somewhere near the center of the ballroom, laughter erupted from a group of businessmen who wer
Contracted to the man who broke me Chapter 92: Adrian is your boyfriend
Ethan's POVThe next day, I insisted I was fine.Nobody seemed convinced.The dark circles under my eyes were still there, and despite my efforts to act normal, my mind kept wandering back to the message. Back to the cemetery. Back to the questions that had suddenly appeared in my life without any
Contracted to the man who broke me Chapter 91: Shadows That Never Left
Ethan's POVThe message wouldn't stop staring back at me. My fingers tightened around the phone as my vision blurred for a moment. The words were simple, only a single sentence, yet they carried enough weight to send my entire world crashing down."Stay away from Adrian if you want to live."A viol
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