18 parts Ongoing MatureThe sky hangs heavy, thick with the promise of rain. A storm brews-not just in the heavens, but in the veins of Southeast Asia itself.
Vince was never meant for this. Not the silk ties. Not the whispered deals over hundred-year-old whiskey. Not the polished smiles of men who once paid to see him bleed. He was a fighter, a rogue carving his name into the bones of the streets, but now-now he's trapped. The suit fits like a noose, the power a loaded gun pressed against his own temple. Play along, stay alive. That was the deal. But in the shadows of the Southeast Asian Summit, deals are meant to be broken.
The air crackles with the tension of something about to snap. Old ghosts slip through the cracks, alliances shift like sand beneath his feet, and somewhere out there-watching, waiting-is Reika. His fire. His fury. His anchor in the storm. And when she finds out what they've done to him, what he's become, hell itself won't hold her back.
The battlefield has changed. It's no longer fists against flesh, bones against concrete. It's a war of deception, fought in whispers, signed in blood behind closed doors. Vince has one shot to break free before the machine swallows him whole. But can you fight when the enemy has already crawled inside your head?
And worse-what if this time, the storm takes him under for good?
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