Chapter 7 - The Viper's Nest
Nora stepped back from the glowing monitors, struggling to breathe as her entire world completely unraveled.
The intelligence agency she had dedicated her life to was actually secretly funding the very syndicate she was trying to destroy.
She realized with sickening clarity that she was never hired to protect Roman from his fiancée.
Her corrupt director had sent her to the restaurant tonight specifically to die in the crossfire and become the perfect scapegoat.
Roman grabbed her shoulders, forcing her to focus on him instead of the devastating betrayal.
He told her they had to leak the data to the global press network immediately before anyone else could stop them.
Just as Roman reached for the keyboard to execute the massive data dump, the server room doors violently blasted open.
A heavily armed tactical strike team flooded the room, aiming laser-sighted assault rifles directly at their chests.
Walking casually behind the strike team was Nora's handler, Director Vance, wearing a perfectly tailored suit.
Vance smiled coldly and thanked Nora for neatly packaging the decoded ledger for him.
He ordered his men to secure the terminal and prepare to execute both Roman and Nora immediately.
Before the soldiers could pull their triggers, the glass ceiling above the server room violently shattered inward.
Rappelling down through the broken glass was another squad of mercenaries wearing completely different tactical gear.
A massive, chaotic gunfight erupted instantly between the agency operatives and the unknown invading force.
Nora pulled Roman beneath the heavy steel server racks, shielding him from the deafening hail of bullets.
Through the thick smoke and flashing muzzle flares, Chloe casually strolled out of the private elevator.
She was holding a sleek, suppressed pistol, and she aimed it directly at Director Vance's chest.
Vance demanded to know what she was doing, screaming that they had a multi-million dollar partnership.
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Chloe smiled her terrifying, hollow smile and stated that she was tired of sharing the profits.
She pulled the trigger without hesitation, shooting the corrupt director straight through the heart.
