Calculated Betrayal

VANCE’S POV

The door isn’t locked.

Malachi doesn’t lock his door on the compound — a small vulnerability from a man who doesn’t believe in vulnerabilities, a costly oversight on his path.

Fine. I’ll bite.

The cabin is minimal. Clean lines, no clutter, the living space of a man who keeps everything organized because mess in the external world reflects mess in the internal one.

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