“You’re useless! All of you!”Derek’s voice cracked through the room like thunder. The men standing before him didn’t move, didn’t speak, didn’t dare offer a response, or an excuse. They had already seen what happened to the last person who came in with the same failure, and they could only wait and expect what would happen to them next. “Almost a week,” Derek snarled, pacing, “It’s been almost a full week, and not one of you can tell me where my son is. None of you has a location, not even a reliable lead. You call yourselves his men? You can’t even find your own boss.”One of them opened his mouth to speak, but Derek’s glare cut him off before he could say a word.“If I hear another excuse, I will start punishing all of you in the worst possible way, until the rest of you remember how to do your work. Get out! All of you! Find him, or don’t come back.”They left quickly, before Derek could change his mind. The door shut behind the last of them, and heavy silence settled over Derek,
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