The Billion Dollar Contract
"They want to kill our baby."
Genocide. Not revenge, not business—complete elimination of Adrian's genetic line. I'd seen this before in Chechnya; systematic extermination to erase the family, the threat, and the future. But this wasn't some distant battlefield. This was a baby I'd just helped save, a brother I'd just met, and a family I'd spent thirty years hating but five minutes learning to protect.
"Adrian," I said quietly. "There's something you should know about me."