Chapter 5 – The Hunter in the Shadows
Julian threw Lily behind an overturned table as another bullet ripped through the wall.
"Stay down!"
Three masked men stormed toward the farmhouse.
They weren't robbers.
They knew exactly where Rose had hidden her evidence.
Julian grabbed the old iron poker beside the fireplace and met the first attacker head-on.
The fight was brutal.
One man dropped a phone during the struggle.
Its screen lit up with a single incoming message:
Retrieve the journal. Leave no witnesses.
Sender:
V.A.
The attackers fled when police sirens echoed through the trees.
Julian stared at the initials.
There was only one person in the Ashcombe circle with those initials.
May you like
Victoria Ashcombe.
His fiancée.
