Under the harsh fluorescent lights of a packed military auditorium, one sentence shattered the world Lucia Neves had quietly built.
“Sit down. You are a zero. Don’t embarrass me.”
Spoken by her father, General Arthur Neves, the words landed like a bomb. Two hundred officers watched, some smirking, some uneasy, as he tried to shrink the woman before him—the daughter he’d belittled for thirty-three years—back into the role he’d crafted.
But this was no ordinary officer. Lucia Neves was Ghost 13.
A Tier-1 sniper. A black-ops operative buried so deep in classified programs that even three-star generals couldn’t access her full dossier. And suddenly, the man who had dismissed her entire life had no idea who she really was.
When Navy SEAL Colonel Marcus Hail entered the room searching for a sniper cleared for an SAC mission, all eyes were on her. Her father barked, mocked, and insisted she “worked in admin.” Then Hail asked the question that changed everything:
“Call sign?”
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