Erick
The moment I saw Sonya’s face on that grainy footage, something inside me snapped, not from fear, but from fury.
For days, I had wandered through Smallville like a restless beast caged in human skin, chasing ghosts and traces of a scent that had long since vanished into thin air.
Now, to learn that Sonya, the very woman responsible for so much of Sophia’s suffering was here, moving freely in the same village where Sophia had last been seen… It was enough to make my blood boil.
But anger alone wasn’t going to bring Sophia back.
I stood by the window, my reflection glaring back at me from the glass, my hands clenched into fists so tight my knuckles whitened.
Behind me, my men were still busy at their stations, devices open, files scattered, phones ringing.
The air hummed with
