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The upper echelons of society were deeply intertwined. 

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The people who moved in political and military circles tended to keep very warm relationships with the business world.. 

On the scale of pure wealth, Thomas sat at the very top of the food chain, which meant his social network was almost embarrassingly easy to map. 

Business, politics, it didn’t matter. They were all on the organization’s list. 

The Clark family’s operational infrastructure had been running long enough to become a well-oiled machine, and their contract division in particular had been active for so long that the personal histories, connections, and family members of most major executives and political figures had been neatly catalogued in their archives. 

Raymond pulled up the full roster and arranged it across the screen. He noticed Maya was still dabbing at Wendy’s face while Wendy wept with spectacular wretchedness, and he said, gently, “Maya, come here a 

second.” 

Then he turned to his wife. “Sweetheart, don’t you want to be the one to personally cut every single one of them in half? 

“You haven’t taken contracts in a while, but…” He let that hang. 

“Who said I stopped?” Wendy said. 

She was a contract killer. That was her profession. 

The tears cut off like a faucet. She was on her feet in an instant, pulling Maya toward the laptop with bright, purposeful energy. 

Maya exhaled with relief at the sight of her dry eyes and leaned in to look carefully at the screen. 

She pointed without hesitating at a pale-skinned boy in the photos. “He used to love cutting my hair. Every time it grew back, he’d cut it up again.” 

He’d called it a gift to her. 

Maya had found it so revolting she could barely stand to think about it. 

“Is that right?” Wendy said, still a little tearful, thinking she was going to twist that wretched child’s head clean off his shoulders. 

Nobody touched her daughter’s hair. 

“Good,” Raymond said. “I’ve also pulled up some of your former classmates. Take a look and tell me if any of them belong on the list.” 

In truth, he’d quietly kept Harmony International School off the organization’s accepted contracts for a while now. 

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Raymond was making his first real attempt at being an ordinary father, and that required a certain amount of consideration. 

He had absolutely no desire for Maya’s after-school conversations to start sounding like this: 

“Dad, a classmate’s mom died today.” 

“Dad, a classmate’s grandfather died today.” 

“Dad, guess what? Someone’s parents at school died again.” 

A random parent dropping dead every day was not a normal family atmosphere. 

Under the warm, encouraging gaze of both parents, Maya hesitated for a few seconds. 

She understood perfectly well what it meant. 

The moment she pointed at anyone, her parents would show up at their door. 

But was it really okay to do this? 

The system spoke into her two seconds of hesitation. 

“Maya,” it said, “if you’re going to walk this road, walk it without looking back. Being stuck in the middle is the worst place to be. You chose them from the beginning, and that means your world was always going to look different from what it once was. 

“Half-hearted goodness and half-hearted wickedness will only make you miserable. Pick a lane.” 

Since she’d chosen this family, she might as well commit to the choice entirely. 

Let go of the rulebook. Embrace the lawless life. 

Maya worked through that logic with startling speed and arrived at her conclusion. 

She stopped hesitating. She raised her hand and pointed, one after another, at face after familiar face from her past life. “Him, him, and him.” 

Raymond and Wendy were both sitting on a considerable amount of pent-up fury from the evening’s revelations, and they were very ready to direct it somewhere productive. 

The three of them huddled together and spent the rest of the night working out the order of operations on what was shaping up to be a very comprehensive list. 

Raymond was fundamentally a man who preferred the path of least effort, while Wendy had always been a dedicated professional in the most efficient sense of the word. 

Where Raymond would deliberate, weigh variables, and plan a measured retreat, Wendy would walk straight up to the front door and handle it herself. 

With his wife taking point, Raymond was more than happy to serve as the steadfast support behind a capable woman. 

They were completely in sync. The final list was impressively long. 

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“Most of these people are minors, but their parents can absolutely come along for the ride, Wendy said pleasantly. “No one should have to walk that road to death alone. 

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“And we should make sure to thank the Silent Archive for this. Talk to Ned when you get the chance and tell him to bump up the payment.” 

She was already at the door, delivering her final instructions to Raymond in a soft, careful voice. 

Her expression was perfectly serene. 

She looked exactly as she always did: bag over one arm, every strand of hair smoothed neatly back into place, composed and put-together. 

Deep into the night, the woman raised her hand and shot out the surveillance camera in a single clean motion. 

Then, wearing a pleasant smile, she knocked firmly on the first target’s front door. 

Open up. 

Your delivery has arrived. 

Wendy kicked the door in. 

An unfinished bottle of red wine sat at the end of a long dining table. She took in the room at a glance, and whatever warmth had been in her voice was gone, replaced by something lightly, dangerously amused. 

“Making yourself comfortable, I see.” 

She’d forced her way in, and the home security system had failed to respond entirely. By the time anyone in the house understood that something had gone very wrong, it was already much too late. 

She didn’t give anyone a moment to react. The smaller target went first. 

Then the gun swung around to the larger one. 

The man pressed himself flat against the wall, his whole body trembling, spine grinding into the wallpaper as though he could force himself through it if he tried hard enough. 

His lips were shaking. “Who sent you?” 

Wendy didn’t answer. 

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