Love Under Contract
Monitors covered the concrete walls, displaying satellite tracking feeds, encrypted communication logs, and real-time updates from international ports.
Damian stood before a massive digital map of the midwest region, a glass of dark scotch in his hand. Marcus was behind him, pulling up three high-resolution mugshots onto the central display: Victoria Sterling, Julian, and Sophia.
"They didn't leave the state," Damian said, pointing a finger at a flashing cluster of red data nodes along the industrial district of the riverbank. "Victoria’s shoulder injury from the sea-fort breach is severe. She needs specialized medical care, which means she's relying on her secondary black-market network ins