Chapter 6 - The Face of Treason
The video showed Ethan sitting in his home office late at night.
He looked terrified, speaking directly into a hidden camera.
He explained that Rebecca was never actually his loving wife.
She was a highly trained operative planted by Victor to monitor my family.
The video then showed Rebecca entering the room with a glass of water.
She handed it to Ethan, kissing his cheek with a cold, calculated smile.
The camera captured the exact moment he drank the fatal poison.
But the most shocking part was the man who stepped out of the shadows behind her.
It was the Chief of Police himself.
He patted Rebecca on the shoulder and told her to clean up the mess.
The police were not just corrupt; they were the actual architects of the assassination.
I slammed the laptop shut, feeling a cold, calculating fury take over my soul.
I could not trust my own men, and I could not trust the law.
I was completely alone in this war.
Leo groaned in pain, bringing my focus back to reality.
His fever was spiking dangerously high.
I had to get him antibiotics immediately, or the infection would kill him.
I wrapped him in a heavy blanket and strapped him to my chest.
I took Maya by the hand and unlocked the steel door of the safehouse.
We stepped out into the dark, abandoned subway tunnels.
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A blinding spotlight suddenly turned on, illuminating us in the darkness.
Dozens of armed SWAT officers were blocking our only exit.
