The Zenith Underground Auction was not for ordinary billionaires. It was a hidden, invite-only world built beneath the city's largest casino. This was where the true masters of the Empire gathered in the shadows — crime lords, corrupt politicians, ancient money families — to buy things that did not legally exist.
A line of luxury supercars stretched around the block. Men in tailored tuxedos and women in diamond gowns walked down the velvet carpet toward the heavily guarded entrance.
And walking right beside them, dripping wet from freezing rain, was a man in a faded, mud-stained military trench coat.
Luke kept his hands in his pockets, his eyes indifferent to the disgusted glares of the elite stepping away from him.
At the golden doors, two massive bouncers crossed their arms, blocking
