Chapter 20

So Thor put down the phone and was getting up from his table to gather the troops to head over to Hammer’s location when my office door burst open. Raphael was standing in the doorway, pain, torment, and sorrow dripping off of him in droves. I immediately knew what this meant.

“How?” was all I needed to ask, already knowing why Rafael was here.

“A car bomb, we have no idea how they got it on the car or who is behind it. Why your father decided to leave the house alone, is also something I can’t answer. I am so sorry son.” Thor sank back down into his chair as despair started to overwhelm him.

These cowards, his father always told him, how when he was growing up how problems were resolved. Face to face. Gunshots rang loud in the streets as restaurants were being shot to smithereens. The marks being taken out and the innocent dying regardless of who they were. If you are with the enemy, you will die too.