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The New Dawn
Spring sunshine flooded through the Geneva clinic windows where James examined a patient—routine checkup, nothing complicated, the kind of medicine he’d dreamed of practicing before the Consortium consumed three years of his life. Through the open door, he could hear Elena in the adjacent office coordinating with Free Healers clinics across six continents.Six months had passed since the Swiss Alps assault. Helena sat in maximum security prison, life sentence without parole. Petrov was dead, buried in an unmarked grave no one mourned. Zhao had been extradited to Austria, tried for three decades of trafficking crimes, sentenced to die in prison. The Consortium was finished—every facility destroyed, every record erased, every network dismantled.And from its ashes, the Free Healers Network had grown beyond James’s projections. One hundred countries now hosted clinics. Two hundred facilities taught medicine freely to anyone willing to learn. Over two thousand students enrolled annually,
The Final Assault
The Swiss Alps rose white and pristine against winter sky as the coalition convoy approached the coordinates Silva had provided. An abandoned ski resort sat halfway up the mountain, closed for decades, buildings weathered and forgotten. Perfect cover for what lay beneath.James sat in the lead vehicle beside Cole, studying Silva’s intelligence one final time. The bunker entrance was hidden beneath the resort’s old maintenance building, biometric security protecting access to one hundred meters of reinforced concrete designed to survive nuclear war.“Silva’s override codes are current as of two weeks ago,” Victoria said through the comm system, monitoring from the safe house. “But Helena might have changed them after Silva’s defection. Be prepared for manual breach.”Behind them, three more vehicles carried the assault force—Cole’s tactical specialists, Tanaka’s fighters, and thirty coalition physicians who’d chosen to fight. Survivors from freed facilities, people who’d spent years as
The Rescue
Silva sat handcuffed to a hospital bed, her shoulder bandaged where Elena's bullet had struck. German police guarded the door, but Marcus had arranged a private conversation. James stood at the foot of her bed, Elena beside him holding Catherine while James's mother watched William in the waiting room."You tried to take my children," James said quietly.Silva wouldn't meet his eyes. "I know.""You were going to kill Chen. He's twelve years old.""I know." Silva's voice broke. "I know what I am. What I became. But you have to understand—they have Maria. My daughter. She's seven years old.""Show me."Silva gestured with her uncuffed hand toward her phone on the bedside table. Marcus unlocked it, navigated to messages. The photo made James's stomach turn—a young girl, bound and terrified, holding today's newspaper. Proof of life. Below it, instructions: *Bring Thorne twins or she dies.*"They took her six months ago," Silva said, tears streaming. "Before São Paulo, before I was ever ca
The Choice
Silva's weapon remained trained on Chen, but her hand trembled. Twelve years old, standing between her and the twins, ready to die for a family that wasn't even his by blood. Her finger rested on the trigger, but pressure wouldn't come."Please," Chen said quietly. "You're not a monster. I know what it's like to be forced. To be used. But you don't have to do this.""They have my daughter," Silva said, tears streaming. "Emma. She's seven years old. They took her before São Paulo, before any of this. Helena has her somewhere, and she'll kill her if I don't bring the twins.""They're lying," Chen said, though his voice shook. "Your daughter's probably already dead. That's what the Consortium does—they use people, then eliminate loose ends. Don't make it worse by becoming the thing they are."Silva's weapon lowered slightly. Behind Chen, Elena stood with both twins in a carrier strapped to her chest, her own weapon raised with hands that should have been steady but weren't. Two mothers f
The Betrayal
Thirty minutes earlierChen sat in the safe house’s security room, monitoring camera feeds showing the property’s perimeter. 2:32 AM in Geneva—most of the house sleeping except for rotating security guards. William and Catherine were in their nursery with Elena resting in the adjacent room. James’s parents occupied the guest suite. Marcus worked in the office on Free Healers Network administration. Everything routine, everything secure.A delivery van appeared on the front gate camera at 2:35 AM. Unusual timing, but not unprecedented—medical supplies for the twins sometimes arrived at odd hours given international shipping schedules. Chen watched Marcus move to the gate security panel, checking identification.“Delivery for Thorne residence,” the driver said through the intercom. “Medical supplies. Signature required.”Marcus verified the shipping manifest displayed on the security screen. The signature looked legitimate—James’s electronic authorization for approved vendors. Everythin
The Villa Assault
The ocean was black glass under a moonless sky as James slipped into the water at 2:47 AM. Cole and Tanaka moved beside him, three shadows crossing the fifty meters between the resort’s private beach and Helena’s villa dock. The water was warm, silent except for gentle waves against volcanic rock.Victoria’s voice came through the waterproof earpiece. “Security systems looping in three, two, one. You’re invisible to cameras. Motion sensors disabled. Go.”They reached the villa’s beach access, climbing onto the dock with practiced silence. Cole led, weapon raised, scanning for guards. The shift change was happening on schedule—voices audible from the main building as outgoing mercenaries debriefed their replacements. Fifteen minutes of vulnerability. Fifteen minutes to infiltrate, locate the targets, and extract them before the resort became a war zone.James followed Cole up exterior stairs to the second-floor balcony. Tanaka picked the lock while Cole covered their approach. The door
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