[POV: Sofia Lanka]

"He’s already inside the perimeter, isn’t he? Don’t look at the monitors, Jack. Look at me. I can feel the vibration of the stealth rotors in the soles of my feet. Leo isn’t coming for a negotiation, and he isn’t coming to talk about DNA. He’s coming to erase the only witnesses who know he’s a ghost in a stolen suit. If we don’t move now, this villa becomes our mausoleum."

Sofia stood in the center of the darkened library, the moonlight carving sharp, silver angles across her face. Her golden eyes were no longer flickering; they were burning with a terrifying, steady intensity. She wasn't the...