Chapter 116

**Ronan**

The forest is dead quiet, the kind of silence that makes your teeth ache. Every breath feels too loud, every heartbeat like it might give us away. My men are spread out through the trees, eyes sharp, rifles steady, each one waiting for my word. The moon is a thin knife above us, cutting through the fog that clings low to the ground. Through the scope, I can see the clearing, the bunker d