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Kira's pov 

The wind was sharp tonight.

Not cold,just biting, like it carried the weight of too many ghosts. The abandoned train depot stood like a rusting skeleton against the skyline, empty tracks stretching into the dark. The only sound was the slow creak of a metal door swaying in the wind.

I slipped through the shadows, every step calculated. No team. No backup. Just me and the Beretta tucked into my waistband.

When I saw him, I froze.

Marcus.

He leaned against a broken pillar, hunched beneath his heavy coat, a cigarette smoldering between two fingers. He looked older. Not the powerful warlord I remembered,no, that man had swagger. This one? This one carried shame.

"Kira," he said, voice rough like gravel dragged across glass. "You came."

"Didn't have a choice," I replied, hand never leaving the grip of my gun. "You've been hunting me like prey. Might as well see the wolf face to face."