The shadows cast by the prison walls grew longer as the fixer reached his safe house and plugged the metallic drive into an encrypted laptop. The screen flickered to life, revealing a folder titled "CLEANUP." Inside were three high-resolution photographs, each marked with a red digital "X." The faces staring back were Mild Cho, Lina Armitage, and Mike Sleep. Silas's message was clear: to secure the family's legacy, the loose ends had to be cut. The fixer reached for his phone, already beginning to track the GPS coordinates of the first target.
Back at St. Jude's, the absence of the school's top scholarship student had not gone unnoticed. The Grand Matriarch, the formidable head of the St. Jude's Covenant Foundation, summoned Skyler to her private conservatory.
