How did you get in here?

While everyone was frantically searching for their loved ones in the sudden darkness, the atmosphere aboard the Sterling cruise ship was thick with tension. Voices overlapped as people called out names, the faint glow of phone lights flickering across worried faces. Alexander was still desperately pushing through the crowd, his heart racing as he searched for Cindy.

But in a certain room deep inside the cruise ship, away from the chaotic din of the frantic passengers, a woman and a man stood in a stark, tense silence. The woman was none other than Cindy Richards, her breath catching in her throat as she stared in disbelief at the man before her. The man, with his cold demeanor and calculating eyes hidden behind dark sunglasses, was the same one who had been watching the ship from the shadows—a figure cloaked in mystery and danger.