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She didn’t answer. But as the sun rose over the burning border, she walked alongside them toward the extraction chopper—not as a contractor, not as a friend.

“Mateo was weak. You are strong. Come back. We burn these mercenaries together. The family forgives.”

He was old. Sixty, maybe. Silver hair, jade crucifix around his neck. He smiled when he saw her.

Xenia didn’t cry. She didn’t scream. She disassembled her rifle, cleaned it in silence, and began planning. The mission with Salem and Rios was supposed to be a one-off: destroy El Diablo’s main weapons depot south of the border. Xenia guided them through sewer tunnels she’d mapped herself, past patrol routes she’d memorized, and into the heart of the compound. army of two the devil 39-s cartel xenia

Salem kept his bead on her. “Then why are we here?”

Xenia watched the flames. For the first time in three months, she felt something—not relief, not grief. Just a cold, clean emptiness.

Behind it, strapped to a chair, was El Diablo himself. She didn’t answer

Rios exchanged a glance with Salem. “And you?”

“Your list is wrong,” she replied, voice flat as a dead sea. “El Diablo’s cartel doesn’t keep lieutenants. It keeps ghosts. And ghosts don’t have names on paper.”

But three months ago, El Diablo made an example of her younger brother, Mateo. He was seventeen. He’d tried to leave the cartel. They hung him from a bridge outside Ciudad Acuña with a note pinned to his chest: “La Familia nunca se va.” (The Family never leaves.) You are strong

“La Familia nunca se va.”

Xenia didn’t flinch when the safe house door blew off its hinges.

But as someone who had finally stopped being a ghost.