Ethan had spent the entire day inside the fortified hotel suite. Not a single member of his team had stepped outside; they remained entirely sequestered, unwilling to grant their watchers even the slightest opening for an ambush. The air in the room had been thick with tactical silence until the soft chime of a secure notification broke the tension.
A message from the Matriarch appeared on his screen: I have arrived. I am at coordinates XXXX-XXX-XXX.
"We'll be there immediately, Matriarch," Ethan typed back.
