It was Dante Ruiz — Miles’s former protégé, the man Miles had left behind in Caracas, presumed dead. His face was half scarred, one eye gone, replaced by a milky prosthetic that somehow still seemed to see everything.
Dante, stunned, let them walk.
Thermal drones took out the generator. Then came the shooters — four of them, moving like military, not mercenaries. Miles fought room to room, using a flare to blind their night vision. He dragged Lena to the root cellar just as the lodge exploded. Download - Private Bodyguard Getaway -2024- -B...
“You didn’t leave me to die,” Dante whispered. “You traded me for a clean extraction. Now I work for the people Lena is running from. And they want her memory — wiped, then her body in a ditch.”
“They’re not after my software,” she told Miles on the second night. “They’re after the list of clients who paid to hide their crimes. Governments. Crime lords. One of them is a former U.S. official.” It was Dante Ruiz — Miles’s former protégé,
Miles and Lena hiked twelve miles to a ranger station. The list went to every major news outlet. The clients fell.
The kind of job that usually meant a client hiding from a vengeful ex or a cartel. Miles didn’t care. His license had been suspended after a mission went sideways in Caracas — hostages dead, his partner paralyzed. Now, he guarded mini-marts from shoplifters. Thermal drones took out the generator
The client was Lena Karam, a 34-year-old AI entrepreneur whose latest encryption tool had accidentally exposed a dark-money network. Two weeks ago, someone firebombed her Seattle lab. Last week, her head of security turned up with a broken neck.
Miles Voss had been drinking cheap whiskey in a Baton Rouge motel when the encrypted message came through.
The shootout that followed was brutal, close-quarters, ending in a collapsing snow bridge over a ravine. Miles and Dante grappled as the ice cracked. In the end, Miles chose differently than Caracas — he pulled Dante up instead of letting him fall.
Three months later, Miles opened a small security firm. His first client? Lena Karam — this time as his partner, not his charge.