Chapter 21 - Dark Shadows Watch The Mercer House Gates Tonight
Midnight cast long, menacing shadows across the winding country roads leading up to the grand stone gates of Mercer House.
A sleek black luxury sedan sat idling in the heavy fog, its headlights completely extinguished in the pitch-black darkness.
Inside the tinted vehicle, an anonymous figure watched the illuminated study windows through high-powered night-vision binoculars.
A gloved hand tapped a secure smartphone screen, transmitting encrypted GPS coordinates across the Atlantic Ocean to Zurich.
The local domestic traitor was behind bars, but a much larger, global conspiracy was already closing in on the estate.
I stood by my study window, holding my cup of tea while staring out into the dark, whispering autumn mist.
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I knew the real war for my empire was only just beginning, and I would not yield an inch of American soil.
The chapter of betrayal was closed forever; the era of absolute federal retribution had officially taken its place.
