Chapter 16 - Two Armed Men Attack Elias’s Isolated Chicago Estate
At midnight, a black van slipped past the outer perimeter sensors, cutting the estate’s power grid in a flash of sparks.
Two armed men in tactical gear scaled the rear garden wall, smashing through the reinforced French doors of the study.
Maeve, who had been bringing Elias a late-night file, screamed as glass shattered across the Persian rug.
“Get down!” Elias commanded, his voice dropping into its old, lethal mob-boss register.
The first intruder raised a silenced pistol, aiming directly at Elias sitting helplessly in his wheelchair by the desk.
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Without a single second of hesitation, Maeve lunged forward, throwing her body directly in front of the wheelchair.
“No!” Maeve cried out, shielding Elias with her own chest as the gunman pulled the trigger.
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