All Chapters of Contracted to the man who broke me : Chapter 131 - Chapter 134

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

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