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Chapter 263 - The North Star

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I have always known Cassian Wolfe was crazy.

Possibly crazier than me, which is saying something, considering I have spent the better part of a decade setting a very high bar for what qualifies as a psychological disaster.

Most people think Cassian is the grounded one... the stoic, the anchor, the man with the plan. But you have to be a special kind of insane to carry a four-year-old ghost around in your pocket and let it dictate every breath you take.

The facility was a playground of concrete and shadows. I worked through the floors with the utmost efficiency.

Emilio's men were numerous, but they were amateurs compared to the sheer mechanical force of a man who has nothing to lose.

I cleared them floor by floor, the math of it resolving itself in my head. Fifteen men. Give or take.

The "give or take" didn't bother me; violence, when it's functional, is just another form of housekeeping.

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