✨The Silence After✨ Kamal watched from the corner of the warehouse, eyes narrow, every muscle tensed. He had been with Nasir long enough to know the line between control and chaos, but tonight… tonight, he had seen something new. Edrin’s body was gone. What remained was the echo of Nasir’s will—a presence that filled the room, heavy and suffocating. Kamal had seen Nasir punish, had seen him dominate, had seen him take lives in the name of business, of vengeance—but this… this had been different. Personal. Absolute. He remembered the slow, deliberate way Nasir had dismantled Edrin, measured, precise, teaching the boy a lesson that would outlive him. Kamal’s stomach churned not with fear for himself—he would not falter—but with awe. The line had been crossed, and Kamal knew he would carry

