“He expects me to trade.”

“What are you going to do?”

Adrian buttoned his black coat. “I’m going to bring my family home.”

Word spread through the Vale organization. Vehicles left warehouses, trucking depots, casinos, and private security facilities across the city. Men who owed Adrian their freedom, their businesses, or their lives answered without asking why.

But Adrian did not call them to slaughter Marcus’s followers. He gave one order, over and over. “No shooting near the child. No revenge. We recover Hannah and Lucas.

Anyone who surrenders walks out alive for the police to collect.”