Dominic sat in the back seat of the black SUV, cuffs digging into his wrists, tension crackling through his shoulders like an electric current ready to explode. The moment they’d dragged him off the street, everything had felt wrong. The uniforms. The silence. The way they avoided his eyes. He wasn’t a man easy to arrest. Hell, most cops wouldn’t even try unless they had an army and a death wish. He didn’t speak at first. He waited. Watched. Calculated. But the second the car turned away from the main road and began creeping into the industrial part of the city, he knew. This wasn’t a detour. It was a setup. His voice cut through the air, low and hard. “Gentlemen, where the f**k are you taking me?” No answer. The driver said nothing. The men beside him stayed still, silent l

