**Mark’s POV**My wrists were cuffed behind my back, the metal already biting into my skin with every small shift of the van. Ethan sat across from me in the same position, face pale, jaw locked so tight the muscle jumped beneath his skin. Frank, Leo, and Martins were further down the bench. My five nephews—Daniel, Marcus, Jordan, Caleb, Elias—filled the remaining space, all of us bound, all of us silent. The two men in police uniforms in the front didn’t speak. They hadn’t spoken since they loaded us in at dawn, when the real morning light had still been soft and ordinary and the charges had been read out in the doorway like any other arrest.The city fell away faster than it should have.I watched the windows. Familiar roads turned into less familiar ones, then into stretches of empty highway, then into a narrow, rutted track that cut through dense bush. No other cars. No houses. The kind of place where cell service died and people disappeared without a headline. My stomach tight
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