Chapter 5 - SHADOWS IN THE SAFEHOUSE
The heavy vault door shuddered as a secondary thermite charge burned through the steel frame.
Damon drew his twin custom sidearms, stepping in front of Selena and Ruby. "Stay behind me. Whatever happens, do not move."
The door blew inward with a deafening flash. Smoke poured into the room, followed immediately by three tactical mercenaries in black gear.
Damon moved like a storm. He fired three precise shots through the smoke, dropping the lead breaches instantly. He rolled behind a heavy concrete pillar as return fire chipped stone fragments into the air.
Through the clearing smoke walked Salazar Delgado.
He was thin, sharp-featured, with a long scar stretching from his left eye down to his jawline. He wore an expensive gray coat and held a suppressed automatic pistol.
"Damon," Salazar sneered, his voice smooth and dripping with poison. "Eighteen months in hiding, and you still look like a king in your castle."
"You're trespassing, Salazar," Damon growled from behind the pillar, his eyes tracking Salazar’s movements in the reflection of a broken metal cabinet.
"I came for what belongs to my family," Salazar said, turning his cold gaze toward Selena and Ruby huddled in the corner. "Hello, Selena. You look tired. And little Ruby... you have your father's eyes."
Ruby shrank back, burying her face into her mother's stomach.
"She doesn't belong to you, Salazar," Damon’s voice echoed through the vault.
"She's a Delgado!" Salazar yelled, raising his weapon toward the pillar. "She carries the blood that controls forty million dollars in Zurich! I won't let a former maid and a mob boss sit on my family's fortune!"
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Before Salazar could pull the trigger, a flash-bang grenade thrown by Victor from the outer corridor exploded in the doorway, blinding Salazar’s remaining guards.
Damon lunged forward, tackling Salazar across the floor as automatic fire erupted into chaos.
