Chapter 4 - The Hunt BeginsDavid didn't waste another second. He turned to Marcus instantly.
"Take Leo to the safe house in upstate New York," David ordered, his tone transforming from grief into lethal focus. "Put six heavy armed guards on the perimeter. Nobody gets near my son."
"Daddy, no!" Leo cried out, grabbing David's jacket. "I want to come with you! I want to find Mommy!"
David knelt down, taking his eight-year-old son by his small shoulders. He looked into Leo's tear-filled eyes with absolute, unshakeable love.
"Leo," David said softly, wiping a chocolate smudge from the boy's cheek. "You did something incredible today. You saved our family. You were braver than any grown man I know. But now, Daddy has to go bring your mother home. I need you to stay safe so when she comes back, you're there to hug her. Can you do that for me?"
Leo swallowed his tears, nodding bravely. "Promise me you'll bring her back."
"I promise on my life," David said, kissing his son's forehead.
Marcus escorted Leo out through the secure rear exit. Once the boy was safely inside an armored SUV, David turned back to Sarah, who was still cowering on the floor.
"You're coming with me," David growled, grabbing her coat and tossing it to her. "You're going to take me to Julian, and if you lie to me even once, I will ensure you spend the rest of your natural life in a federal penitentiary."
Five minutes later, David’s black convoy roared away from the country club, tearing through the rain-slicked streets of New York toward the high-tech headquarters of Sterling Dynamics in Manhattan.
David pulled out his encrypted satellite phone and dialed a secure line.
"Evelyn," David commanded as soon as his chief security engineer answered. "Shut down all server access for my brother, Julian Sterling. Freeze his master keycard, lock down his private lab on Floor 14, and track his GPS location immediately."
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"David, what's going on?" Evelyn asked, startled by the urgency in his voice.
"Julian kidnapped Elena four years ago," David said, his knuckles white against the phone. "She's alive. And I'm coming to take my company—and my wife—back."
