Chapter 22 - THE UNCLE'S RETURN
Jackson returned fire, pinning down two mercenaries behind an ATV.
Nora carried Maya and pulled Ethan down into the cellar trapdoor beneath the kitchen floorboards.
"Stay down here, Ethan! Keep your sister quiet!" Nora instructed, locking the wooden latch from below.
She grabbed a heavy hunting rifle mounted on the cellar wall, loading three heavy cartridges into the chamber.
She climbed back up the cellar stairs just as a mercenary kicked open the cabin's rear service door.
Nora raised the hunting rifle, firing a point-blank shot that knocked the mercenary backward into the snow.
Outside, the heavy thudding of an approaching helicopter shook the log cabin walls.
A silver utility chopper hovered low over the clearing, firing a heavy spotlight down onto the mercenaries.
A man wearing a tactical coat leaped from the helicopter skid onto the snow, holding a military rifle.
He moved with lethal precision, neutralizing three mercenaries in less than twenty seconds.
Nora stared through the broken window frame in total shock as the man walked toward the porch.
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His face was weathered and scarred, but his dark hazel eyes were unmistakably familiar.
It was her late husband's older brother, Marcus Vance—a man reported dead in a military crash five years ago.
