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Chapter 43: The Ambush
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The air in Blackwood College was thick with tension, the kind that settles deep in the bones like the calm before a thunderstorm. The abandoned halls stretched like veins in a dying beast, silent and waiting for blood to be spilled.

Jones crouched low against a crumbling column, gripping the cold steel of his knife. Across from him, Lexi, Dre, and Victor were poised, their breaths shallow, their eyes locked on their target.

Calhoun.

The behemoth stood in the middle of the old assembly hall, a battlefield carved out of history. He was a storm in himself—massive, unshaken, unbreakable. His men fanned out around him, oblivious to the noose tightening around their necks.

Jones exhaled slowly. Showtime.

He tapped the radio mic clipped to his collar, his voice a whisper in the darkness.

"Phase one. Execute."

Plan A: The Trap

From the shadows, Jasmine and Kayla struck first.

A deafening boom ripped through the hall as pre-planted charges detonated, sending a cascade of debris crashing down t
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