2026-11-10 17:01:20Roy came up the rooftop stairs in full combat gear, helmet off, his boots making almost no sound on the concrete. He reached the top, scanned the open space, and found Soren lying flat on his back in the middle of the roof, staring up at the sky with his arms spread wide like a man who had just survived something he had no business surviving.
Roy let out a short, cold sound through his nose."If this is the kind of work ethic your team brings to the table," he said, "I'd suggest you
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Chapter 077
Roy came up the rooftop stairs in full combat gear, helmet off, his boots making almost no sound on the concrete. He reached the top, scanned the open space, and found Soren lying flat on his back in the middle of the roof, staring up at the sky with his arms spread wide like a man who had just survived something he had no business surviving.Roy let out a short, cold sound through his nose."If this is the kind of work ethic your team brings to the table," he said, "I'd suggest you walk away from this contract now. At least you'd leave with your fee intact."He hadn't been quiet coming up the stairs, but he'd been close to it. Most people wouldn't have heard him until he was already speaking. Soren had heard him three steps from the top. He'd simply chosen not to move, because for the first time in what felt like a very long time, nothing was trying to kill him, and he wanted to hold onto that feeling for exactly as long as it lasted.He sat up slowly at the sou
Chapter 076
Thick smoke blanketed the battlefield, swallowing every shadow and muffling every sound.Soren moved through it with the AR-15 carbine raised, his breathing controlled and deliberate. He hit the magazine release without breaking stride, letting the spent mag drop to the ground, and slapped in a half-used one he'd been holding in reserve. It seated with a solid click. He rolled his shoulder once, adjusted his grip, and pressed forward into the grey wall of smoke without a word.Somewhere ahead of him, one of the SWAT operators was retreating.The man moved carefully, weapon up, eyes scanning the shifting haze for any trace of movement. He'd watched Soren tear straight through their entire defensive line like it was nothing, and that knowledge sat in his chest like a stone. The operator they called Nighthawk was not a rumor. He was not an exaggeration. He was real, and he was somewhere in this smoke, and every second spent inside it was another second closer to dying.
Chapter 075
The German Shepherd smelled him before it saw him.It had been hanging its front legs over the passenger window of a pink Beetle, barking at the queue of vehicles ahead, when something in the air changed and the dog turned its head. What it found looking back at it was a man with bloodshot eyes, a black leather jacket, an AR-15 slung over one shoulder, and the particular quality of stillness that large predators share with certain kinds of very dangerous people.The dog was back in its owner's lap before the next heartbeat.The elderly woman behind the wheel had been touching up her lipstick in a compact mirror. She lowered it and found Soren walking alongside her window, close enough to touch the glass. She opened her mouth. He raised one finger to his lips without looking at her, and kept walking.The checkpoint was seven vehicles ahead. Four officers were working the line, waving cars through one at a time, running the standard stop-and-check procedure with th
Chapter 074
The rotor noise was close enough now that Soren could feel it in his chest.He had the accelerator pinned and it wasn't enough. The AS365 Dauphin helicopter tracking him along the riverbank had settled into a parallel course off his left side, close enough that he could see the cabin door open and the shooter brace an L119A1 against the frame. Soren took his foot off the accelerator in irregular pulses, breaking the vehicle's rhythm, and drew the Glock 19 with his right hand. He fired through the open window. The rounds were enough to make the pilot pull altitude, which bought seconds but not distance. The police vehicles behind him used those same seconds to close the gap.The intersection three hundred meters ahead was a wall of blue lights. More than a dozen patrol cars, at least forty officers. Driving straight at that line wasn't a decision, it was a conclusion.Then he saw the Underground sign.He made the turn without deliberating, mounted the curb, and st
Chapter 073
The three Land Rovers idled at the curb while the agents finished their briefings around Dax Carter, each one competing for his attention as he walked toward the vehicles."This is the agenda for today's session. The Prime Minister will be raising questions about the current situation with MI6. You'll want to be prepared.""Sir, Ghost Wolf just reported in. There are signs of Nighthawk's presence in Tulip Grove. Investigation is ongoing.""The CIA is requesting a copy of our Somalia intelligence package..."Dax moved through all of it without expression, without acknowledgment, his face carrying the particular blankness of a man who had spent decades absorbing bad news and had long since stopped letting it register on the outside. He reached the lead Land Rover and put his hand on the door.Then something made him look up.Across the street, the passenger window of a parked jeep was open, and the man behind it was watching him with the flat, unhurried a
Chapter 072
"I wouldn't move if I were you," Soren said, keeping his voice level. "My trigger finger isn't particularly steady right now, and I'd hate for an accident to inconvenience everyone."He walked Philip backward through the villa's rear door one step at a time, the AR-15 pressed against the man's side, his eyes moving continuously across the faces of the guards fanned out across the rear courtyard. They retreated as he advanced, giving ground without being asked, their weapons up but their angles bad. Nobody wanted to be the one who pulled the trigger and hit their employer.Soren scanned the courtyard and found what he was looking for: three jeeps parked in a row near the far wall, the same vehicles from the previous loop. He picked the nearest guard who wasn't directly in his line of movement and nodded toward the vehicles."You. Start one of those and bring it to the gate."The guard's expression made his feelings clear, but he looked at Philip's face, read the s
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