Behind him, Luca stepped into the room, his eyes darting between Marcus and me.

“Marcus, the security team downstairs just got an alert,” Luca said.

“The offshore servers are being cleared out.”

Marcus did not look back at his brother.

He kept his eyes locked on mine, searching for the weakness he had exploited for years.

He did not find it.

The laptop gave a short, high-pitched chime.

The transfer was complete.

The data was gone from the local network, wiped from the primary drives, and sent into the ether.

Sophia took a step toward the door, her face white.

“You killed us both,” she whispered to me.

“No,” I said. “I saved myself.”

Marcus reached for his jacket, his hand moving toward his own holster.

I pulled the silver revolver from my pocket and pointed it directly at his chest.

My hand did not shake.

“Tell Luca to give me the keys to the SUV,” I said.

The room became perfectly still, the only sound the wind rattling the windowpanes.

Marcus stared at the barrel of the gun, then looked at his brother.