My Milf Conqueror System novel Chapter 226

Chapter 226: Surgical Strike

[Jake’s POV]

The Maybach cut through Macau traffic like a blade. Ethan rode shotgun, checking magazines and sliding them into his vest one by one. Claire’s voice came through the dash speakers, calm and clipped, but I could hear the tension under it.

The GPS pinged softly. Outside the windows, Macau blurred past in streaks of neon and concrete. Midday sun turned the buildings white. Tourists laughed on the sidewalks, carrying shopping bags and bubble tea and taking selfies in front of casinos. None of them knew that two blocks over, men were getting ready to bleed. The air in the car smelled like leather, gun oil, and the faint cologne Ethan always wore. He racked a slide once. The sound was small but it filled the whole cabin.

"442 Rua do Almirante Sergio. Industrial district," Claire said. "Two guards at the front gate. Four more inside the bay. One supervisor. No patrols for another 12 minutes."

I could picture the layout from Nia’s satellite map. One entrance in front. One roll-up door in back. Concrete floor, no windows, corrugated roof. The kind of place where screams don’t carry and cameras are for show. The heat outside made the metal gate look like it was waving. Sweat was already running down my spine and soaking into my shirt. Eight minutes. That wasn’t a lot of time to send a message and disappear. If we took longer, Lin’s reinforcements would box us in and this would turn into a war we weren’t ready for.

"Timeline?" I asked.

"Eight minutes until their next shift change," Nia cut in. "After that it doubles. You’ll have six hostiles inside and two more arriving."

Ethan loaded two spare mags into his vest. His hands didn’t shake. Mine didn’t either, but my heart was loud in my ears. The Maybach idled at a red light. The engine was a low purr under us. A delivery truck rumbled past and shook the whole alley. Dust floated in the sunlight like ash. I checked my watch. 10:22 AM. We had until 10:30. Every second after that, the odds got worse and the exit got smaller.

Eight minutes. That was the window.

We rolled past once, slow. The gate was chain link and rusted at the bottom. The guards smoked, laughing about something. One of them flicked his cigarette onto the pavement and ground it out with a boot. The other scratched his neck and said something in Cantonese I couldn’t catch. They looked bored. They didn’t look like men who were expecting trouble. The pipe leaning against the wall had black tape on the grip. There were dark stains on it. Old blood. I felt my jaw tighten. This was the same pipe they used on our runners this morning. The same hands.

I parked two blocks down in the shadow of a warehouse. The sun was brutal. Heat shimmered off the asphalt and made the air taste like metal and exhaust. The moment I stepped out, sweat broke across my back.

Ethan pulled on gloves. "We go quiet?"

"We go quiet," I said. "Until we don’t."

We moved along the back wall, staying in the thin strip of shade. My shirt was already soaked through. The smell of oil, rust, and garbage was thick. A dog barked somewhere far off, then stopped. Somewhere a forklift beeped. The city sounded normal. It wasn’t.

Claire patched into the security feed. "Camera blind spot in 3...2...1...now. You’ve got 90 seconds before the loop resets."

The gate latch was old and cheap. Ethan cut it with bolt cutters. The sound was small but it felt like a gunshot in the quiet. The chain fell away.

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