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“Arrival?”

“Fourteen hours.”

“That’s too late.”

“It’s the best I can do without alerting half of North America.”

Rook looked toward Black Site Theta.

Thirty-seven prisoners.

Four targeted survivors.

An underground facility designed to kill everyone inside if the breach went wrong.

And somewhere in its corridors, a man declared dead six years earlier waited beside Wade.

“Then we breach in sixteen.”

Sarah looked at him.

“We were supposed to leave in four.”

“We still do. We establish forward surveillance and confirm Wade remains inside. The additional aircraft follow.”

“And if Warden moves him early?”

Rook picked up his weapon.

“Then we take Theta before they can.”

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ROOK

The warehouse had gone silent.

Not because no one had anything to say.

Because everyone was thinking the same thing.

Wade Parker.

Project Nightfall.

The mountain.

Black Site Theta.

Marcus Lane.

A commanding officer murdered before he could talk.

Too many pieces.

Too many questions.

And somehow, every one of them pointed back to the same place.