The Price of Loyalty

The room went dead silent.

No one moved. No one spoke.

It was like time had paused again, but this time it wasn’t fear or chaos, it was tension. The kind of tension that threatens to squeeze the life out of you. Everyone seemed to be weighing their next move, their next word, their next breath.

But Vance, battered and bloodied wasn’t backing down.

“Who the fuck are you?” he repeated, glaring at Ma