Insight

Chapter 23

He slowly picked up the receiver and brought it to his ear, his voice dropping into a lethal, calm, unyielding register.

"It's over," Ethan stated firmly into the encrypted speaker, waiting for the mysterious voice on the other end to respond.

A low, vibrating cinematic bass tone hummed through the line, followed by a slow, calculating mechanical laugh from the shadows.

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"Nothing ever truly ends in this country, Mr. Vance; we just change the players," the voice whispered before the line went dead.

Ethan looked out the window at the dark night sky, his expression hardening into an eternal mask of absolute, unbreakable readiness.

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