Chapter 15 - The Counter-Offensive.Rosa stared at Ethan as if he had completely lost his mind.
"Stop running?" she echoed in disbelief.
"Ethan, you were just shot, and they have an entire private army hunting us."
Ethan walked slowly into the room, leaning heavily on a wooden cane Volkov had provided.
"As long as Victoria and her father draw breath, they will never stop hunting Lily," he stated coldly.
"If we run, we will spend the rest of our lives looking over our shoulders."
He turned to Volkov, his expression hardening into the ruthless billionaire tactician he was known to be.
"Ilya, do you still have the encrypted terminal connected to the dark web?" Ethan asked.
"In the back room," Volkov nodded, understanding dawning in his eyes.
Ethan limped toward the back office, motioning for Rosa to follow him.
He sat heavily in front of a bank of glowing computer monitors and began typing with his one good hand.
"What are you doing?" Rosa asked, watching lines of complex code scroll rapidly across the screen.
"When I took over my father's empire, I found all the digital ledgers detailing the syndicate's black-market operations," Ethan explained.
"I kept the files hidden on a decentralized server as an insurance policy against Victoria's father."
He hit the enter key, and a massive map of global financial networks appeared on the monitor.
"I am currently transferring all of their offshore funds to a dozen different international intelligence agencies," Ethan said, a dangerous smirk crossing his face.
"Within twenty minutes, every intelligence service in the world will have the proof they need to dismantle the syndicate."
Rosa watched in awe as the man she loved tore down a criminal empire with a few keystrokes.
"But Victoria won't just surrender," Rosa pointed out nervously.
"No, she won't," Ethan agreed, pulling a fresh magazine from a nearby weapons cache.
"When the money vanishes, she will panic and consolidate her forces at the syndicate's primary stronghold in Manhattan."
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He racked the slide of a sleek, suppressed submachine gun.
"And that is exactly where I am going to kill her."
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