All Chapters of Shadow of Loyalty: Chapter 21 - Chapter 30

Chapter 22: Whose We AreThey found Reyna waiting in the front room, laptop open, her expression a mix of urgency and something more cautious."What did you find?" Glenmorrin asked, moving to look at the screen."A partial trace," Reyna said. "I narrowed Kray's signal to a district near the docks, but I need a few more hours to pin down the exact building. It's not enough to act on yet."Glenmorrin's jaw tightened, clearly wanting more, but he nodded. "Then we wait until you have something solid. I won't move the team on a guess.""Agreed," Reyna said. "I'll keep working on it overnight. Get some rest if you can — it's going to be a long day tomorrow."She retreated back to her own corner of the house, leaving them alone again, the tension of the discovery replaced by the quiet exhaustion of having nothing left to do but wait."You should rest," said Glenmorrin, turning back to Jhonatan, who still sat on the sofa, exhaustion clear on his face."I can't sleep," said Jhonatan. "Not with

Chapter 24: Elena's PriceGlenmorrin's hand drifted toward the weapon at his hip, though he made no move to draw it, his eyes locked on Elena with lethal focus."You lured me here under a lie," Glenmorrin said, his voice low, controlled. "Impersonating his father's voice. That's a dangerous game to play with me.""Is it?" Elena stopped a few feet away, entirely unbothered. "I thought it was rather clever, actually. And it worked, didn't it? Here you are.""Say what you came to say," Glenmorrin said, "and then explain why I shouldn't consider this a declaration of war.""Because," Elena said, "I'm not your enemy. Not yet, anyway. I'm simply a woman who recognizes an opportunity when she sees one.""What opportunity?" Glenmorrin asked.Elena circled him slowly, her heels clicking against the stone path. "You come to me asking for help against Castellan, offering Kray as payment for a debt eleven years old. A generous offer, on the surface. But it made me curious about what else you migh

Chapter 26: Who WatchesThe room went silent, the photograph glowing accusingly on the screen between them."That's from tonight," Jhonatan said, his voice tight. "From inside this house."Glenmorrin's eyes moved slowly to Reyna, something unreadable passing behind them."You think it's me," Reyna said flatly, reading his expression immediately."I didn't say that," Glenmorrin said."You didn't have to." Reyna's jaw tightened, though she didn't look away. "I've worked for you for six years, Glenmorrin. If you think I'd sell you out to Castellan, or to Kray, you should say it to my face.""Someone took this photo," Glenmorrin said, his voice hard. "From inside a location only three people knew about tonight. You, me, and Jhonatan.""Then maybe the location isn't as secure as you think," Reyna shot back. "You said yourself Kray suggested your original safehouse years ago. Maybe he has resources neither of us accounted for. Cameras planted without your knowledge. A mole somewhere else in

Chapter 28: Silence"Reyna!" Jhonatan's voice cracked, his hands fumbling with the car door before some fragment of training, some memory of Glenmorrin's instructions, forced him to stop. "What's happening? Talk to me!""I'm moving in," Reyna's voice came through, tight and controlled despite the tension threading through it. "Stay in the car, Jhonatan. I mean it.""I can't just sit here—""You can, and you will," Reyna snapped, uncharacteristically sharp. "If something's gone wrong in there, the last thing Glenmorrin needs is you walking into it too."The radio went quiet again except for the sound of Reyna's footsteps, quick and purposeful, and her breathing growing more labored as she moved.Jhonatan's hands pressed white-knuckled against the dashboard, every second stretching into an eternity, his mind cycling through every worst possibility with sickening clarity."I'm at the entrance," Reyna said finally, her voice dropping to barely a whisper. "Door's been breached. There's—" S

Chapter 30: ReckoningThe monitors flickered to life with grainy footage—three black vehicles pulling up along the tree line beyond the facility's perimeter, doors opening in coordinated silence."Count them," Glenmorrin's voice came through Jhonatan's headset, steady despite the tension Jhonatan knew he had to be feeling."Eight, maybe nine," Jhonatan said, scanning the feed carefully, forcing his voice to remain level. "Kray's in the second vehicle. I can see him through the windshield.""Copy," Reyna's voice cut in. "Team, hold positions until my signal. We let them commit before we move."Jhonatan watched, heart hammering, as the figures spread out across the facility's overgrown grounds, moving with practiced precision toward the main entrance."They're splitting into two groups," Jhonatan reported. "One heading to the east entrance, the other toward the main doors.""Understood," Glenmorrin said. "Reyna, take the east team with your people. I'll handle the main entrance personal