Chapter 69 The Plan

• (Leonardo POV)
• The war room at midnight smelled like cigarette smoke and desperation. Maps spread across every surface. Security feeds glowing on monitors. Twenty men calculating how to fight an enemy who'd been three steps ahead for months.
• "If Isabella's right," Rico said, lighting another cigarette despite the haze already thick in the air, "then everything we've repositioned is wrong. We've fortified against military assault when Vescari's planning surgical extraction."