CHAPTER 7 ā THEY CAME TO SILENCE THE LAST WITNESSES
The black SUV idled beneath the emergency room entrance.
Its headlights remained off.
Inside, two men watched the hospital through tinted windows.
One checked a photograph on his phone.
Robert Wright.
Logan Wright.
Joanna Hayes.
The newborn.
"Those are the targets."
The driver nodded.
"We leave no witnesses."
Upstairs, Robert had no idea death was already waiting outside.
His attention remained fixed on Margaret.
The old woman struggled to breathe.
She reached for Logan's hand.
"I promised your mother..."
"...I'd keep you alive."
Logan fell to his knees beside the bed.
"You already did."
"You gave me a life."
Margaret smiled through tears.
"I wish... I could have given you your name."
Her heart monitor suddenly accelerated.
Doctors rushed into the room.
Robert was pushed outside.
Seconds laterā
The lights above the operating room doors turned red.
Joanna held her baby tighter.
Something inside her whispered that this nightmare was far from over.
Just then, Detective Samuel Brooks burst down the hallway with two armed officers.
"Doctor Wright!"
Robert turned.
"You and your family have to leaveāright now."
"What happened?"
"We intercepted a phone call."
"They're sending people to kill everyone connected to Margaret's confession."
The hallway fell silent.
Logan instinctively moved in front of Joanna and the baby.
"For us?"
The detective nodded grimly.
"And there's worse news."
He handed Robert a folder.
"Daniel Wright disappeared two hours ago."
Robert's blood ran cold.
"He knows."
Before anyone could reactā
The hospital lights flickered.
Once.
Twice.
Then...
Darkness.
The entire floor went black.
Only emergency lights glowed red across the walls.
A nurse screamed somewhere down the corridor.
Then came the first gunshot.
BANG!
Glass exploded.
Patients cried out.
Doctors ducked behind desks.
Detective Brooks shouted,
"Everybody down!"
Two masked men stormed through the emergency entrance carrying suppressed rifles.
One security guard tried to stop them.
He collapsed seconds later.
Logan looked toward Joanna.
"Take our son."
"What about you?"
"I'm not losing my family again."
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For the first time in his life...
The man who once ran away chose to stand and fight.
