"So you've already located Asset X-017?" Soren kept his voice level, watching Nora's face for the flicker that would confirm what he already suspected. It wasn't a difficult calculation. If she had been embedded beside Nighthawk long enough to earn his trust, she could have moved against him at any point. She hadn't. Which meant the mission had only become urgent now, and there was only one reason for that. "That's right." Nora didn't bother hiding it. She met his eyes with the calm steadiness of someone who believed the game was already over. "Asset X-017 is nearly at MI6 headquarters as we speak. Nighthawk, it's finished. All of it." A brief silence settled between them. "Perhaps," Soren said. He let the word sit there, quiet and noncommittal. But behind it, the math was already don

