Chapter 186

GIDEON

The phone in my fist might as well have been bone. Fragile. Breakable. Mocking me with the silence of its dead tracker. I stared at the black screen until my vision blurred, until all I saw was her face flicker across the dark glass like a ghost.

“Sir?” One of my men hovered at the edge of the alley, voice careful, like I was a grenade with the pin already pulled.

I lifted my head, ja