He checked his window. The city lights were on. And somewhere above the clouds, just beyond the glass, a pair of eyes—perfect, blue, and utterly without mercy—were smiling down.
Nice try. See you soon. – HL
One of the men said, “Inject Compound V at the occipital lobe. We suppress the empathy cluster first. Homelander prototype needs to be clean .”
Marcus yanked the USB out. His hand was shaking. He went to format the drive, but the file was already gone. In its place was a single text file, created one minute ago:
He knows you’re watching. Delete this before he finds out you saw him young.
He almost deleted it. He’d seen The Boys . Season 1, Episode 8 – “You Found Me” – was burned into his brain. Butcher, the kid, the exploding head at the hearing. He knew the 4K HDR version by heart.
