The heat in the Algarve was a physical weight, pressing down on the whitewashed walls of the marina, shimmering off the blue waters where the yachts bobbed lazily at their moorings. It was the kind of afternoon where sensible men slept in the shade and only fools or the desperate moved with purpose.
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He adjusted his hat against the sun. He had entered the game as a target, but he was leaving as the architect. There would be no retribution, no final confrontation. Just a void where a man used to be. The heat in the Algarve was a physical