Read Aloud

Read Aloud — The Contract Walk

The prison does not feel abandoned. It feels paused.

White security lights stare down a corridor built from dark plas-steel. Cell doors stand sealed. Camera lenses follow the breach team in perfect silence. Somewhere behind the walls, pumps move air through a facility large enough to bury a city block.

Your handler’s voice arrives through a private channel. “Vault access in ninety seconds. Secure the assets, keep your weapons down unless my people fire first, and the balance clears before you reach orbit.”

Ahead, the corporate squad leader raises a fist. Three commandos stop half a beat late.