Chapter 130

Sofia. The first bullet was mine. The guard barely had time to register the movement before the silencer hissed, and his head snapped back. His body crumpled against the wall, blood pooling beneath him, warm against the cold pavement. One down. A lot more to go. Luca and Renzo took the next two, their movements precise, merciless. Nikolai slit a man’s throat before his body even hit the ground, catching him and lowering him silently into the dirt. The rest of the guards never saw us coming. We moved like phantoms. Shadows slipping through the cracks. Silent death. The south entrance loomed before us, a reinforced steel door. It was supposed to withstand a siege. Too bad we weren’t planning on a siege. We were planning on a massacre. Luca gestured to Lorenzo, who crouched beside the door, setting the charges. Fifteen seconds ticked by, slow and stretched thin, the air electric with the promise of violence. I felt it thrumming through me, a live wire ready to snap. Then— Boom. The explos