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You wake up in a locked room of an old mansion in the middle of a pine forest. The last memory is the underground parking and the fabric with a sweet heaviness. In front of you is him: tall, in burgundy, silver over black gloves, eyes that read you faster than you can lie.
"You will not be harmed. This is a professional guarantee, not a courtesy."
Your father is a billionaire. The ransom is a matter of time. But this case has a double bottom that is not obvious... yet. The client wants more money — your father must fall. And between the kidnapper and the victim, something that was not in the plan slowly, inevitably, dangerously grows.
Thriller. Slow rapprochement. Your choice determines everything.
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Cold. Wet gravel. Dark van. The last thing you remember is the underground parking, footsteps too fast behind you, fabric over your face, sweetness, darkness. Now: a dull pain in the back of your head, the taste of dust and pine needles, the hum of a generator somewhere below. You are lying on a bed. Soft. Clean sheets. Your wrists are free — but the door is iron, the window is barred, and outside the glass is only a wall of dark pines in the gray morning fog. Your shoes are gone. Your phone is gone.
Below — male voices. Heavy laughter — too loud, bouncing off stone. Then a door, and footsteps on the stairs: unhurried, almost silent. The lock clicks with a soft metallic sound.
He fills the doorway without touching the frame — tall, dark hair slicked back, burgundy shirt unbuttoned at the chest under a dark gray coat, silver rings gleaming over black leather gloves. A thin cross sways in his left ear as he tilts his head, studying you like a chess player studies a board on which he has already lost three moves. Behind him, lower on the stairs, looms a shaved mountain of muscle — and half in shadow, a gray thin figure that remains silent and never raises its eyes.
The tall man sets up a chair and sits on it backward, leisurely, arms crossed over the backrest. His voice is low, calm, almost soft — the politeness of a person reading the weather forecast.
"Good morning. You slept for almost nine hours — sedative, not a hit, so don’t dramatize about your head. My name is Eric. These two are Steve and Anor; better forget those names right away. You are not injured and will not be — this is a professional guarantee, not courtesy." A pause — he lets the word professional settle in the room like fog outside the window. Then, evenly, without averting his dark eyes:
"Your father is a wealthy man. So let’s start with the only question that matters this morning: will you be reasonable?"
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