Underwater: The Silent Luna novel Chapter 164

Chapter 164

They got to the street and killed the lights before pulling too close. Camila’s house sat in darkness. That alone was wrong. No warm spill of light through curtains. No ordinary domestic glow. Just a house standing too quiet, too blank, like trouble had already

settled inside it and was waiting.

Joseph told Adam to park away from the building. They got out silently. The three of them moved toward the house with the kind of caution men learned only from experience. No heavy footfalls. No useless whispers. Just bodies working together in the dark.

When they reached a window, Joseph peered through. What he saw made something harden fully in him. A man was tied to a chair

in the middle of the room. Brad Richardson. His face was swollen. Blood marked him in enough places to show he had already taken

a serious beating. Around him stood three masked men. Not talking casually. Not waiting. Beating him. Working him over like they

meant to break him before the night ended.

“Tell us what your wife knows about Meadow’s condition,” one of them said.

Joseph frowned. Meadow? That question did not fit cleanly with what Ethan had told him. If these men were panicking about

Ethan’s medical records, why were they pressing the husband over Meadow’s condition? Unless the two things were linked deeper than Ethan knew. Unless the same hands messing with Ethan also had unfinished business with Meadow.

Joseph glanced at Adam and Brian. No words were needed. They signalled each other quickly, silently. Back door. Fast and quiet.

Luckily for them, the back door was already open. That alone annoyed Joseph. These bastards had come in comfortable. Confident

enough not to worry about easy exits or being surprised.

The three of them entered without a sound. Joseph could hear the rough breathing in the room ahead. The sharp, ugly thud of fists

landing. Brad’s weak struggle against the chair. The scrape of boots on the floorboards. Then they struck.

It happened quickly because surprise did most of the work for them. Joseph went for the nearest man hard and clean. Adam took

the second. Brian hit the third before the bastard even had time to turn properly. There was no warning. No challenge. No wasted

theatrics. Just violence where it was needed.

The intruders were caught off guard, and that made the fight easier than it might have been otherwise. Joseph and his team killed

two. The third, the one who looked like he might be leading the others, they incapacitated instead. Not out of mercy. Out of

usefulness. A dead man could not answer questions. A live one, even if only for a few minutes, could.

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Adam moved quickly to help Brad out of the chains they had tied him with. The poor man could barely hold himself upright. Adam

used the same chain to bind the surviving intruder. Joseph yanked the ski mask off the man’s face. He did not recognise him. That

mattered.

Brian pulled the masks off the two dead men as well. Same result. None of them were from Whitewood, at least not faces any of the

three of them knew. That sharpened Joseph’s suspicions instead of easing them.

“Who sent you?” Joseph asked.

The man laughed. Actually laughed. There was blood around his mouth already, and still the bastard found laughter.

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“I am willing to die with the information,” the man replied.

Joseph did not have time for games. Not tonight. Not with another house to reach and too much already going wrong at once. So he granted the man his wish. He ended him on the spot. No speech. No warning. No dragged-out punishment. Just a quick, final answer to arrogance.

After that, they moved fast again. The bodies were loaded into the van. Joseph had no intention of leaving signs all over the property. Those men did not deserve a burial or respect. They deserved disappearance.

Brad, still shaky and battered, followed them after locking the house. He looked like a man who had not quite accepted yet that he was still alive. Joseph watched him closely once they were back in the van.

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