Chapter 21 - A Dark New Threat Emerges From the Shadows
The sun dipped below the horizon, painting the Westchester sky in bruised shades of purple, crimson, and charcoal gray.
Inside the high-tech security bunker beneath the estate, Vincent monitored the perimeter camera feeds with practiced focus.
Suddenly, a flashing amber alert blinked on the master console, signaling an unauthorized data ping on their private network.
Vincent typed furiously across the keyboard, tracing the encrypted signal back to an unknown satellite relay in Zurich.
A hidden folder opened automatically on the main screen, revealing surveillance photographs taken from inside the estate gardens.
There were clear pictures of Sarah, Lily playing on the lawn, and Adrian walking without his security detail.
And attached to the data file was a single typed message from an anonymous international syndicate buyer:
“Moretti thinks he won the war in New York, but he forgot about the debt he owes across the Atlantic.”
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Vincent grabbed his comms headset to sound the alarm, but the estate lights suddenly flickered and died completely:
The darkness outside the stone walls was no longer just the night—it was an entirely new war waiting to strike.
