[POV: Sofia Lanka]

"Keep your hands off her! You’re hurting her, you’re scaring her, and I won’t let you treat our daughter like a tactical objective! Look at her eyes, Jack! She doesn’t see her father, she sees a monster!"

Sofia’s voice cracked, the sound jagged against the oppressive silence of the concrete bunker. She threw herself between Jack and the cowering child, her hands pressed against his chest to halt his advance. The air in the small room was thick with the scent of ozone and the biting chill of the Alps, but the emotional frost in the room was far more lethal. Jack stood rigid, his shoulders heaving,...