In their secret hideout, Maya stood before a massive wall map.Red markings, circles, names...She pointed to a photo and said:
"This is the next target... the Attorney General.The shadow behind the shadow of the Police Chief.If we take him down, we break the spine."
Edward slowly looked up, his eyes scanning the details.
They began to move out—but on the way, a message reached him.He opened it... and froze.
A photo of Maya, age 14, holding a gun in front of a corpse.
And written in the background:
"This is how a demon's journey begins..."
At that tense moment, Edward received a call from his brother.They met after weeks of silence...His brother knew everything.
The meeting took place in an old side street, far from the lights.
Edward stepped out of the car, tense, watching his brother waiting in silence.For the first time in years, the two stood face to face without hostility...only the weight of truth between them.
His brother spoke in a quiet voice, eyes pulled inward:
"I always knew Mom died unjustly...I was young, but I never forgot how Dad cried that night without saying a word."
He took a step forward and added:"The older I got, the worse the nightmares became...Only now do I understand who the monsters are... and who we are."
He extended his hand and said:"Now... I'm with you. And we won't leave anyone behind."
Edward shook his hand.He said nothing—but in his eyes, there was a clear admission:Blood does not betray, if it chooses to cleanse itself.
Edward returned to Maya's headquarters. The place was quiet.He passed by her open room...and heard her speaking softly to herself:
"I don't know when... or how...but I fell in love with him.He's different… more than any man in the world."
He froze behind the door.
He didn't enter, didn't speak,just waited a moment,then knocked and walked in as if nothing had happened.
He placed the photo in front of her.
"Is this... real?"
She looked at it, then at him,and said:
"It's not real.But my father made it real…He knows exactly how to distort me in the world's eyes.I don't ask you to believe it—Just don't believe everything."
He looked at her for a long time, then said calmly:
"Photos burn...But trust is built.And we… we're partners now, Maya."
She stared at him as if hearing something never said in their world of deceit.For the first time, Maya wasn't the woman who knew everything...but the little girl her father tried to turn into a demon.
She didn't reply—just blinked back a tear and swallowed it silently.One look was enough to carry all the gratitude, betrayal, fear, and love.Then she breathed slowly and said:
"Then... let's burn everything, my partner."
At that moment, one of her men entered:
"The Attorney General… escaped.But your brother's tailing him.He might go down tonight."
Maya and Edward moved instantly—following the brother's trail.
Meanwhile...
The Police Chief was in a secret basement,files spread before him, screens showing their movements.
He told his aides:
"There's no time left for hiding...Edward and Maya are both threats."
He opened an encrypted file titled:
"Purge Operation – Connection Between Natalia and Daria's Deaths."
It became clear:They had all been part of the same network from the beginning...The ones who killed Edward's mother…And the ones who killed Maya's mother...had worked together in the shadows.
"You've come too far to turn back now, haven't you?You've walked the whole road.Don't stop before the truth."
"In the final chapter...The killer's name will be written.It will be known who loved whom.And who was truly the victim."