Page 59 of Hardline Torque
“Looks that way,” Luca said.“And Marsh’s anomaly lines up with the strongest probability cluster from the signal bleed.”
The map adjusted again.The cluster tightened.Not clean—but sharper.
“This doesn’t give us certainty,” Luca added.“But it gives us direction.And timing.”
Tane absorbed it without comment.
This wasn’t luck.
It was pattern.
He turned back toward the central table, palms resting flat against the surface.“We go quiet,” he said.“No external pings.No extra assets.We move before they expect the lie to settle.”
Kael nodded once.“Call signs only.”
Niko shifted his weight, testing his leg.“I’m good,” he said before anyone could ask.
Keanu cracked a thin smile.“I was hoping you’d say that.”
Tane’s gaze flicked briefly to each of them—his team, his family—before settling again on the map.
Victor was somewhere inside that cluster.Drugged.Beaten.Still fighting.
The Directorate thought time was on their side.
They were wrong.
Tane straightened.
“Mount up,” he said quietly.“We end this.”
Chapter Eleven
“Call signs active,team.This is Reef, running things from comms,” Niko spoke from their command van, his leg too much of a liability to risk on this op.“Surge.”
“Up.”Kael answered quickly, voice already tight with focus.
