And there’s something terrifying in them now.
Resolve.
Cold and absolute.
“Then we end it tonight.”
Every instinct inside me reacts instantly.
Because the way she says it?
She means it.
Not emotionally.
Operationally.
She’s done surviving.
Now she wants war.
Mason leans against the table.
“We hit Wu directly?”
Gabriel nods once.
“If we wait, he disappears.”
“He’ll bury Ascension somewhere deeper.”
And he’s right.
This is the moment.
Now or never.
Russ studies the map carefully.
“Where’s the command center?”
Gabriel points toward the northern edge of Bucharest.
Old industrial district.
River access.
Abandoned Soviet communications facility.
Naturally.
“Ascension was built beneath an old Cold War bunker.”
Wonderful.
Absolutely wonderful.
Hannah suddenly looks toward me.
