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Chapter 13: The Warrior Rises
Romeo's Point of ViewI stood up.The motion was natural and natural as if my body understood what to do. I no longer had trembling hands. I was no longer confused in my mind. All my senses were clean and acute and well. The mildly-mannered janitor had vanished. In his place was someone else. It was a person I had all my life without realising it.Thomas Black fired the gun.I moved faster than thought. I leaped on one side as the bullet flew through the air at the point where I had been a split second ago. The bullet struck a metal container that was at the back of me and it bounced back with a metallic ping. It was now instinctive and my body was responding to the training I had as a child and had forgotten about as an adult."Go!" I called after Emma and Margaret. "Get out of here! Get to safety!"Emma took the hand of her mother and ran to the federal agents. I could hear her say to them to get down, to get down. But I was no longer watching her. I was watching Thomas Black. I was
Chapter 12: Dead Man Walking
Romeo's Point of ViewThe man identifying himself as David Black stared hard on the screen. His expression didn't change. He didn't deny it. He didn't try to explain. He simply gazed at the prison records as he gazed to a ghost.My name is not David he said at last. His voice had changed, and was harder, as though something had changed within him. "It never was. That was the name I had taken when I got out of prison. I took it from a dead inmate. I was a new person since the old David black had died in that cell just like the records say.Marcus was still walled up against the wall, his face contorted with perplexity. "What are you talking about?" Marcus demanded. "You're my brother. You've always been my brother."I was your brother, said the man. He shifted his gaze off the screen and gave Marcus a cold gaze. But you have told me a lie about everything. You had told me that our father had been murdered by the parents of Romeo. You told me I needed revenge. You said that we had famil
Chapter 11: The Vault's Secret
Romeo's Point of ViewThe helicopter had the soldiers dropping down on ropes. Within one minute they would be down on the ground. We had not time to run, and we had nowhere to go. The remaining option was to give up and wait until my grandfather felicitous of his plan.Surrendered to Emma and Margaret, I shouted. I put up my hands to indicate that I did not pose threat to the soldiers. "We're not going to fight."I wondered what Emma had thought of me, as she gazed at me as though I were crazy. But she knew what I was up to. Her hands were also raised and after some time so was that of Margaret. The troops were dropped about us in a circle with guns up. They were moving with precision and coldness as they had done a thousand times."Romeo Martinez?" one of the soldiers asked. He was a big, broad-shouldered man, and was scarred on the face, so that he reminded me too much of David Black."Yes," I said. "I'm Romeo Martinez."You are going with us, said the soldier. "David Black wants to
Chapter 10: Three Brothers
Romeo's Point of ViewThree Black dudes. Not just two. Not even one. Three. While I had been sneaking, while I had been finding out about my foe, I did not know how many foes existed. My grandpa killed a man named Alexander. Marcus was locked up. David and Thomas were free. Still hunting people. Still risky.The ships moved around us, coming near like big fish that picked up blood. There was no leaving now. The stream was thin, so we couldn't go anywhere. The trees were hard to pass through. We were stuck with no guns and no strength. This was what Thomas Black planned."Let me speak clearly," Thomas said. He was not as old as David and Marcus, maybe fortyish. His face wasn't damaged, but his eyes were still icy. "Your grandpa Edward Martinez stole from my folks. He made a fortune from us. He took cash from the Blacks. He killed my brother Alexander. He jailed my brother Marcus. Then he hid you, as if you were hurt."I didn't talk back. Anything I said would let him speak more, to tak
Chapter 9: Nowhere to Hide
Romeo's Point of ViewI pushed Emma and Margaret down into the boat cabin as the first helicopter began firing. The sound was thunder, loud and awful and misplaced. Bullets screamed through the air above, tearing through the old warehouse like paper. Federal agents on the dock fired back, but there were too many helicopters, too many men. It was like fighting the sky."Start the engine!" I was yelled at by Sarah Chen. She was firing at the helicopters, distracting them. Her team was doing likewise around her, but I could see they were being pushed back. They were in danger. "Go!" "Get out of here!" I ran to the engine and turned it on as quickly as I could. Suddenly, the boat lurched forward, and I had to grab the wheel to stay upright. A bullet went through the windshield right next to my head, leaving a hole with cracks spreading out from it like a spider's web. I ducked down and kept the boat moving away from the dock and out into the open water. "Wait a minute!" I yelled a
Chapter 8: Family Secrets
Romeo’s Point of ViewTime was moving slowly. The gun in David Black’s hands was pointed right at me. There were at least twenty soldiers lined up behind him, all of them armed and ready to fire. The safe house was disintegrating around us. The battle was raging right outside our walls. And I was going to die.Now Margaret Chen fired her own trigger.The noise of the firing of the gun in the vault room was deafening. The sound of the gun was followed by the scream of one of David Black’s soldiers as the bullet hit him in the shoulder. The moment turned into chaos with the single shot. Vincent pulled me backward into the vault. Emma was already dragging her mother with her."Go! There's a back exit. Move!" Vincent yelled.David Black opened fire. The bullets stripped through the walls as if they'd been constructed of tissue paper. The vault itself was built to resist an attack, but it was not going to give an inch. Still, I knew we couldn't hole up there forever. There would come a tim
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