Franco spoke into his radio and relayed the orders as Joshua took one last look around the debris and found nothing.
“All this devastation for an Arch Mystic?” he said to himself. “Something went wrong here. It doesn’t compute. Did you secure the Shadow, Franco?”
“Yes, sir,” said Franco. “It seems the Enforcer met someone who didn’t agree with his methods. He was executed at what appears to be almost point-blank range, judging from the wounds.”
Joshua nodded. “I saw the double tap,” he replied. “It was Marcus, or what was left of him. He was a nasty piece of work. Can’’t say I’m going to be shedding any tears, but he was no lightweight either. Whoever put him down was powerful…or lucky.”
“A set of tracks led deeper into the woods, and then we lost them at the lake,” said Franco. “They didn’t reappear on the other side.”
“Whoever that was, wasn’t in this hole, unless mystics have learned to fly,” said Joshua. “This leaves me only one pertinent question.”
“Sir?” said Franco as he looked up from his notes.
“Where is the baby?”
THE END
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Orlando Sanchez has been writing ever since his teens when he was immersed in creating scenarios for playing Dungeon and Dragons with his friends every weekend. An avid reader, his influences are too numerous to list here. Some of the most prominent are: J.R.R. Tolkien, Jim Butcher, Kat Richardson, Terry Brooks, Piers Anthony, Lee Child, George Lucas, Andrew Vachss, and Barry Eisler to name a few in no particular order.
The worlds of his books are urban settings with a twist of the paranormal lurking just behind the scenes and generous doses of magic, martial arts, and mayhem.
Aside from writing, he holds a 2nd and 3rd Dan in two distinct styles of Karate. If not training, he is studying some aspect of the martial arts or martial arts philosophy.
He currently resides in Queens, NY with his wife and children and can often be found in the local Starbucks where most of his writing is done.
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This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
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