Like a man completely certain nobody could touch him.
“You think you’re hunting monsters,” he continued smoothly. “But monsters don’t hide in shadows…”
His smile widened slightly.
“They build them.”
Rook went completely still beside the table.
Then Mercer said the one thing that changed the air in the room.
“Tell Callahan I remember Black Hollow.”
Silence.
Absolute silence.
Rook’s expression didn’t change.
But the temperature in the farmhouse dropped twenty degrees.
Ava frowned slowly. “What the hell is Black Hollow?”
Rook reached forward calmly?—
and closed the laptop.
Hard.
The screen went black.
Nobody moved.
Nobody spoke.
Then Wolf said quietly, “You want to explain that?”
Rook stared at the dark laptop for one long second.
And for the first time since he arrived?—
he looked angry.
Not irritated.
Not controlled.
Furious.
The kind of fury buried so deep it became terrifyingly calm.
“One of our operations,” he said quietly.
Trigger folded his arms. “That sounds like a massive understatement.”
Rook ignored him.
“It was a Shadow Division site overseas.”
