“I didn't wake it,” Carlton said softly. “I bought it. Three billion dollars in dormant claims. Every route, every safe house, every politician who still remembers how to look the other way. It’s not a cartel anymore, Dad. It’s a logistics company.”
“I’ve had thirty years to rehearse it. You were gone for most of them, remember? Chasing ghosts in the jungle. Mom died alone. I raised myself on your stories about Escobar. Not the killing—the structure . The way one man could hold a country in his palm.” Carlton’s voice cracked, just once. “You wanted to bring down a monster. I wanted to become the thing that monsters are afraid of.”
The knock on the door came soft, three times. Jack didn’t turn. “It’s open.”
The file on his screen flickered. A grainy photo from 1991. Pablo Escobar , smiling like a man who had never heard the word "extradition."
His own son.
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