Unprofessional Conduct: The Storme Shield
If the Ghost Unit wanted a fight, they wouldn't get a war—they would get the truth, and that, he suspected, was something far more dangerous.
The wind picked up, swirling the trash and debris of the alley into a miniature storm. The silence returned, but it wasn't the heavy, oppressive silence of the safehouse. It was the silence of anticipation, the calm before a much larger storm. And as they vanished into the labyrinth of the city, Elias understood that the real descent had only just begun. The ledger was the key, the fire was the distraction, and the game—the truly brutal, human game—was now entirely their own to play. They would move through the shadows, they would exploit the gaps, and