Chapter 10
Vengeance is mine; I will repay.
—Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Jerusalem, Israel
1:15 p.m. GMT+3, January 15, 2023
Rachel's was a rich family. That is, if riches were measured by moral conviction. But measured in shekels, they lived a meager life with modest living quarters and the simplest of meals. A simple focus dominated the mindset of her father, his wife's mother, her grandmother—bring those who wronged their family to justice. Even if that justice meant incurring debts, favors to be paid back.
Sitting on her desk at home is a NiQband. Not one that she ordered, a gift of sorts. Or, more accurately, the instrument bearing her IOU. For as she touches the NiQband, not even trying to activate it, it shows his face. The subcommander of the SS medical unit that performed inh
