LeonThe video started and I saw them before the sound caught up. Tamara on her knees, hands tied behind her, dress ripped at the shoulder, face wet with tears. Jasper slumped in a cheap chair, his lip split, bruises swelling. Thiago stood behind them with a gun like he’d posed it in for effect.He spoke to the camera like he was reading terms. “Bring the ledger, Leon. Bring it alone. Midnight. You bring it, you take her. You don’t, you watch them die.”Then he held his phone to show Tamara and the video cut.I set the phone face down on the desk and walked to the safe. I didn’t want to think. My hands did the work. The ledger had been in the safe because that’s where I kept the paper that mattered. It wasn’t a diary or receipts. It was everything — names, dates, amounts, shell companies, wire references, code names, phone numbers tied to accounts. There were full ledgers for every major move I’d ever tracked, and for every family that trusted the book more than a man. It handed power
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