Chapter 13 - THE ULTIMATE SHOWDOWN
The warehouse went dead silent.
Only the sound of rain drumming on the tin roof remained.
Lorenzo stopped moving.
His chest heaved with every breath.
“Let her go, Viktor,” Lorenzo whispered.
“This between you and me.”
“It was always about the empire!” Morena laughed hysterically.
“And now I have everything!”
Clara moved slowly along the shadow of a shipping container.
She slipped behind Morena’s primary guard.
Before the man could react, Clara struck him across the back of the head with a heavy iron wrench she had picked off a workbench.
The guard collapsed instantly.
Morena’s head snapped toward the noise.
That split second of distraction was all Lorenzo needed.
He lunged forward like a striking predator.
He struck Morena’s wrist with bone-crushing force.
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The pistol clattered across the concrete floor.
Lorenzo followed with a brutal right hook that sent Morena crashing unconscious against a wooden crate.
