Chapter 14 - THE MERCENARY RISING😱 SHE HIRED AN ARMY! VESPERA LAUNCHES A DEADLY AMBUSH ON CHICAGO'S DOWNTOWN! 🔥

When news of the Zurich vault fire reached Vespera in Lake Geneva, her composure shattered.
"He burned four billion dollars?!" she screamed, slamming her cognac glass into the fireplace, showering the hearth with shards. "He burned his own assets just to starve me?!"
"Ma'am," her tactical captain reported nervously. "Our offshore credit lines have been frozen by the Swiss regulators following the vault destruction. We are losing $50 million an hour."
"Then we end this tonight," Vespera growled, her eyes burning with unhinged malice. "Activate Apex Security. I want every contract killer on our payroll deployed to Chicago. I don't care if downtown becomes a warzone—bring me Gabriel Rowan's head!"
Three hours later, Chicago’s Financial District was plunged into chaos.
A convoy of blacked-out armored trucks smashed through the perimeter of Gabriel’s secondary command center at the Old Post Office building. Over forty heavily armed private mercenaries stormed the lobby, firing automatic weapons into the glass partitions.
RAT-TAT-TAT-TAT!
Sparks flew across the marble floor as Gabriel and Vito’s men took cover behind reinforced concrete pillars.
"She’s desperate, Gabriel!" Vito yelled over the roar of gunfire, reloading his shotgun. "She’s spending her remaining cash on brute force!"
"She wants to draw us out!" Gabriel shouted back, ducking as a grenade exploded nearby, blowing out the lobby windows. "She knows if she doesn't kill me before the markets open in New York, the Blind Trust paperwork will be frozen by the Federal High Court!"
Suddenly, a heavy armored vehicle crashed through the front glass doors, its mounted heavy machine gun opening fire directly on Gabriel’s position!
"GABRIEL! MOVE!" Viktor screamed, throwing his body in front of Gabriel just as a hail of heavy caliber rounds tore through the air.
Viktor slammed into the ground, hit twice in the shoulder.
Gabriel’s eyes went dark with fury. He grabbed a rocket-propelled grenade launcher from a fallen mercenary’s kit, stepped out into the middle of the corridor amidst falling glass, and pulled the trigger.
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WHOOSH... BOOM!
The armored car erupted into a massive fireball, shaking the entire city block and shutting down the mercenary assault in a single blinding explosion.