Every instinct inside me goes alert.
“What?”
His gaze shifts toward me.
“The woman who recommended you.”
Ice floods my bloodstream.
Hannah goes still beside me.
Russ’s head turns sharply.
“What woman?” he asks quietly.
The commander’s smile widens slightly.
And suddenly I realize something horrifying.
This entire thing—
Hannah’s kidnapping.
The convoy.
The transfers.
It may not have been random at all.
The commander studies my reaction carefully.
Then calmly says the words that change everything.
“She said you would come for her.”
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Hannah
Everything inside me goes cold.
Beside me, Clay stops moving completely.
Not frozen.
Worse.
Controlled.
Deadly controlled.
The commander watches both of us carefully, like he’s studying the damage those words caused in real time.
“She said you would come for her.”
Russ steps forward first.
“What woman?”
