But the shipment held more than cash. Tucked in a weatherproof crate was a ledger — names, addresses, and proof of collusion linking powerful men to atrocities in towns the team had quietly sworn to forget. Mateo recognized a name on the first page: the mayor who’d ordered the raid that buried a village years ago. Moral lines blurred — hand the ledger to authorities and risk incineration by those it named, or bury it along with their consciences and walk away with enough money to vanish.
But the shipment held more than cash. Tucked in a weatherproof crate was a ledger — names, addresses, and proof of collusion linking powerful men to atrocities in towns the team had quietly sworn to forget. Mateo recognized a name on the first page: the mayor who’d ordered the raid that buried a village years ago. Moral lines blurred — hand the ledger to authorities and risk incineration by those it named, or bury it along with their consciences and walk away with enough money to vanish.
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