Chapter 7
Following the Trail
Subject Four is captured by Silas Vane and taken to a warehouse, where he uses his journalistic skills to survive and begins to trace the gold's true origin, leading to a dangerous confrontation and a new lead.
The warehouse smelled of salt and rust. They dragged me through a side door, past stacks of shipping pallets, and dumped me onto a concrete floor. My shoulder hit hard, and I tasted blood where my lip had split.
Vane stood over me, his long coat brushing the ground. Up close, he was older than I'd expected—fifty, maybe sixty—with silver in his hair and a face that had seen too many deals go bad. He held a leather-bound ledger, the kind we used at the shipyard for logging cargo.
"You've caused me considerable inconvenience," he said, flipping pages. "The intern was supposed to be a simple message. A warning. But you had to poke around."
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