At the hospital, my world coll;ap;sed. Tessa lay motionless. Thirty-one f;ra;ctu;res. The angelic face I had yearned for every night was now purple, swo;lle;n, and unrecognizable. My hand trembled as I touched her shoulder—the only place not bandaged—while Victor Wolf and his seven sons stood outside the door, casual and indifferent, as if watching a boring play.
“A robbery,” Detective Miller mumbled, his eyes darting nervously toward the Wolf family.
I swallowed the grief rising in my throat and lifted Tessa’s hand. “Detective,” my voice was low and gravelly. “My wife knows martial arts. If a stranger att;ac;ked her, she would have clawed, she would have fought to survive. There would be skin under her nails.”
I let her hand drop and turned sharply to lock eyes with Victor. “But these nails are clean. That means she was res;tr;a;ined. By people she trusted.”
I picked up the medical chart, my gaze sweeping over the seven burly men. “Thirty-one stri;ke;s with a ham;m;er. A robber h;it;s to escape. Thirty-one times… that is hatred. That is an attempt to destroy.”
“Enough!” Victor stepped forward, adjusting his expensive suit, a smirk playing on his lips. “You’re being overly emotional. You’re just a grunt, what do you know about investigations? Go back to your base; my family will take care of her.”
Dominic, the massive eldest son, stepped up to block my path, his voice menacing: “Did you hear my father? Get lost, you government dog.”
I didn’t back down. I stepped in close, whispering into Victor’s ear, quiet enough for only him to hear but cold enough to freeze that smirk: “You call me a dog? Have you forgotten what attack dogs are trained to do?”
I stepped back, my eyes locking onto Mason, the youngest brother, whose trembling hands were spilling coffee onto the floor. I had chosen my first prey.
“I’m not calling the police,” I declared, my voice echoing down the corridor. “I’ll handle this myself.”
I turned and walked away, leaving a deathly silence in my wake. They called themselves the “Wolf Pack,” but they had made the biggest mistake of their lives.
They didn’t k;j;;ll her. And even more foolishly, they had awakened the devil I tried to leave on the battlefield.
The hunt begins.— (Full Details Below
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