CHAPTER 50 — BITING THE DATE.
The city creaked like an old newspaper. I opened the notebook and wrote Matteo’s line — The one who says it first pays the bill — only to smear it away with my finger. Writer’s habit: think out loud, publish cold. Today called for the latter.
Alessio brings the car like a man carrying a harness. Mar...
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Chapters
1. CHAPTER 1: THREATENED NOTES.
2. CHAPTER 2: LIES WITH A HINT OF COFFEE.
3. CHAPTER 3: A FILE CALLED HELL.
4. CHAPTER 4 – THE KEY AND THE ECHO OF SILENCE.
5. CHAPTER 5 – SHADOWS WITH PERFUME.
6. CHAPTER 6 – TOASTS UNDER THE CROSSHAIRS.
7. CHAPTER 7 – THE PORT OF LIES.
8. CHAPTER 8 – FILES TO DIE FOR.
9. CHAPTER 9 – FALSE MOVE.
10. CHAPTER 10 – ALL IN THE SAME ROOM.
11. CHAPTER 11 – THE ARMED INTRUDER.
12. CHAPTER 12 – BLIND RUN.
13. CHAPTER 13 – AFTER THE SHOT.
14. CHAPTER 14 – THE POISONED OFFER.
15. CHAPTER 15 – KEY TO THE SHADOW.
16. CHAPTER 16 – UNDER RED LIGHT.
17. CHAPTER 17 – THE ALLEY’S GAME.
18. CHAPTER 18 – THE FORBIDDEN MOVE.
19. CHAPTER 19 – BETWEEN SHADOWS AND ESCAPES.
20. CHAPTER 20 – SHADOWS AMONG WITNESSES.
21. CHAPTER 21 – FIVE FALSE STEPS.
22. CHAPTER 22 – FIVE PAIRS OF EYES.
23. CHAPTER 23 – THE ORDER NO ONE EXPECTED.
24. CHAPTER 24 – AGAINST THE CLOCK.
25. CHAPTER 25 – RED-THREAD RESCUE.
26. CHAPTER 26 – TWO FINGERS FROM THE ABYSS.
27. CHAPTER 27 – LINE OF FIRE
28. CHAPTER 28 – THE WOLF’S COURTESY.
29. CHAPTER 29 — FRIENDLY FIRE.
30. CHAPTER 30 — WINDOWS AND KNIVES.
31. CHAPTER 31 — BREATHING WINDOWS.
32. CHAPTER 32 — UNFORGIVING BRIDGES.
33. CHAPTER 33 — QUESTIONS IN RED.
34. CHAPTER 34 — HOW TO SIGN WITHOUT SIGNING.
35. CHAPTER 35 — SEVEN, UNDATED.
36. CHAPTER 36 — THE PRICE OF “HOW I LIVE”.
37. CHAPTER 37 — SIGN HERE (WITHOUT SEEING ME).
38. CHAPTER 38 — BORROWED DATES.
39. CHAPTER 39 — POISONED KEYS.
40. CHAPTER 40 — THE DATE ON THE WALL.
41. CHAPTER 41 — THE HAND THAT ERASES.
42. CHAPTER 42 — THE KEY THAT DOESN’T TOUCH.
43. CHAPTER 43 — THE RECEIPT FOR THE VOID.
44. CHAPTER 44 — WATERMARK.
45. CHAPTER 45 — L–12 AT MIDNIGHT.
46. CHAPTER 46 — CHAIN WITHOUT HANDS.
47. CHAPTER 47 — THE DATE THAT BITES.
48. CHAPTER 48 — WRITING IT INTO EXISTENCE.
49. CHAPTER 49 — THE NAME I DON’T SAY.
50. CHAPTER 50 — BITING THE DATE.
51. CHAPTER 51 — A CHAIN THAT WALKS.
52. CHAPTER 52 — WHO KEEPS VIGIL, WHO COLLECTS.
53. CHAPTER 53 — WHO AUTHORIZES THE AMOUNT.
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