I went straight to my Commanding Officer. I told him everything—every word Ethan whispered, every threat I heard, every instinct screaming inside me. My CO stared at me, jaw tight, then finally said: “Take the whole damn team. You’re on emergency leave.”
That’s when I knew: whatever Graham and his so-called brothers were doing, it wasn’t small. It wasn’t isolated. And they had just made the biggest mistake of their lives.
We geared up, gathered intelligence, and prepared to dismantle a man who thought shooting a child would protect his empire. But the deeper we dug, the darker it became. Money laundering. Trafficking routes. A network of corrupt officials. And evidence that Ethan had seen something he never should have seen.
Just before we launched our first mission into Graham’s world of shadows, a discovery hit me like another bullet: Graham wasn’t acting alone—he had military connections. High ones.
If that was true, then who exactly were “his brothers”… and how far would they go to finish what he started? What if nine bullets weren’t meant to silence Ethan—what if they were meant to warn me?
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