Ashley’s POV
Maddox’s warning echoed in my mind long after the screen went black.
"You have no idea what’s coming."
His voice was calm. Controlled. Confident.
And that was the problem.
Maddox wasn’t bluffing. He wasn’t scared. He knew something we didn’t, and that made him more dangerous than any enemy we’d faced before.
Caden’s jaw clenched as he stared at the dark screen. His entire body was rigid, his hands curled into fists at his sides.
"We end this now," he said, voice low and deadly.
Mia typed furiously on her laptop, her fingers moving at lightning speed. "I’m tracing the video feed. He used an encrypted server, but I can break through it."
I turned to Caden. "Maddox isn't just some hired gun. He used to work for the government. He knows how to disappear, how to play the l
