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“Just nastyto acquire so terrorist attack in Moscow that would have targeted the US embassy The plotters were Chechen separatists, and we’d tracked their origin to a tiny village in the Caucasus Mountains According to our intel, the attack was only hours away, so we needed to find out who they were and where they were hiding in Moscow Hundreds of lives were at stake”

Juan sed hard as he thought back to that day

“We had one of the terrorists tied up in a far His family—wife, sister, and three children, all under ten—were in the next room I left to follow a lead on his partner so back, it was obvious that I shouldn’t have left Tate alone with them He had a look in his eye, a co aside his emotions like I was But the emotions simply weren’t there, except for excite”

Max had a stricken look He kneas co

“I had a gunfight with the second terrorist,” Juan said “He died, so I got no more information When I returned to the farmhouse, I found Tate outside with the terrorist, as on the ground crying The house was going up in flames”

“Tate had set it on fire?”

Juan nodded “He was sot the terrorist to tell hi about the pro the attack”

“He burned up the guy’s family?”

“He locked theet the man to talk The terrorist didn’t believe hi stuck in it”

Max shook his head in disgust “He murdered five innocent people”

“No, one I wanted to go in to save theive me the key And it was a heavy oak door, so they would have burned alive before I could break it down Tate said the terrorist was getting what he deserved So I shot Tate in the leg and took the key from him He called me a traitor, and every other naet the three kids and the sister out, but I couldn’t reach the mother”

“I never heard about an e in Moscow You obviously stopped the attack”

“We did, but not because of the infor The info about the hideout was actually in a notebook he’d hidden in the pocket of the youngest child”

“Which you wouldn’t have gotten with Tate’s methods”

“I later found out that Tate had done siet ahead” Juan took a breath “When I got out of the house with the last child, Tate was gone He took our SUV and fled with the terrorist, leaving h the forest to ht at a roadblock because one of the rebel soldiers noticed the blood on his pants frounshot wound They threw hient”