Chapter 8 - The Desperate Search
Daniel fell to his knees in the dark safehouse, completely shattered by the absolute loss of his family.
His wife was in the hands of a psychopath, and now his son was missing.
He forced himself to breathe, locking away his panic and letting cold logic take over.
He walked over to the ruined security console and pulled the encrypted backup drive from the mainframe.
He plugged the drive into his laptop and watched the surveillance footage from the last hour.
What he saw on the screen made his blood run completely cold.
It was not Silas’s men who had breached the safehouse and killed Marcus.
The footage showed twelve-year-old Ethan raising his hidden 9mm pistol and shooting the giant bodyguard in the chest.
Ethan had realized that his father’s world was too dangerous and decided to take matters into his own hands.
The boy had grabbed Maya, stolen the ledger, and escaped the bunker on his own.
Daniel frantically pulled out his phone and tracked the GPS signal hidden inside Ethan’s watch.
The blinking red dot on the digital map was moving rapidly toward the abandoned steel mill.
Ethan was taking the ledger to Silas to trade for his mother’s life.
Daniel grabbed a tactical rifle and several extra magazines from the weapons cache.
He sped across the city, breaking every traffic law in a desperate race against time.
He arrived at the crumbling steel mill just as a violent thunderstorm broke over the city.
Daniel kicked open the rusted metal doors and stepped into the massive, echoing warehouse.
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He froze in terror as he looked up at the elevated catwalk above the factory floor.
Silas was standing on the narrow bridge, holding a heavy revolver directly against Ethan’s temple.
