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CHAPTER 52
BEYOND THE MIRRORSelena stood still, like ice, right in front of the big screen. Her heart pounded hard in her chest. The screen showed lines of data scrolling fast, one after another. Each line felt cold and mean, as if it were trying to hurt her. She could not look away. Elliot stood next to her. He read every word twice. His face turned pale. Then, slowly, his hands fell to his sides. He looked defeated, but his eyes burned with anger.“This is not a prison,” Elliot said. His voice was soft, almost a whisper. He could hardly believe the words coming out of his mouth.Selena's throat was dry. "No," she said, her voice shaking.Elliot pointed at the screen. “It’s a power source.” Those words hung in the air. They felt heavy, like stones dropping into water. Saying them out loud made everything seem more real and scary.Right there on the screen was Griffin’s name. It glowed in bright letters. But it was not listed as a target or an enemy. No. It said CORE SUBJECT: G-01. Big charts f
CHAPTER 51
THE UNREAD WHISPER Selena sensed something was wrong. The room was quiet, and she felt a heavy weight.Elliot stood by the wall. He stared at the laptop screen. They had brought the laptop from the warehouse. Another USB drive sat next to it. No one had touched the USB yet. It looked forgotten. “Why do I feel like we are already too late?” Selena asked in a quiet voice.Elliot did not answer at first. When he spoke, his voice was soft and low. “Because Griffin planned for this moment.”Selena turned to look at him. “Planned for what?” she asked.“For us to pick the wrong choice first,” Elliot said.Her heart sank deep inside her chest. She felt sick.Rico moved in his chair. He winced from old pain that still hurt him. His wound had not healed all the way. “You’re saying Griffin knew we would not check everything?” Rico asked.Elliot nodded his head once. “He knew we would rush to save him first,” Elliot said. “He planned on that mistake.”Selena made ti
CHAPTER 50
THE COST OF TRUTHSelena's heart was breaking. Griffin was alive, but being use against her willHe was in terrible pain. And the full truth was slipping away from them faster than they could chase it.Elliot slammed the safe-house door shut. He locked it not once, but twice, for good measure. “They’re moving quicker than we expected,” he said in a low voice. He started pacing back and forth across the worn wooden floor. “Griffin tried to warn us. He really tried his best.”Selena couldn’t bring herself to sit down. Her legs trembled like leaves in the wind, but she forced herself to stand tall. Sweat beaded on her forehead, and her mind raced with images of Griffin’s face twisted in agony. “If he warned us,” she said, her voice shaky, “then why couldn’t he speak plainly? Why all the riddles?”Elliot stopped pacing and looked at her. He hesitated, rubbing the back of his neck. “Because of whatever they injected into him. It’s eating away at him from the inside out.” His voice droppe
CHAPTER 49
THE MAN BEHIND THE MESSAGEThe room fell silent after the last recording stopped. No one spoke. Elliot’s jaw clenched tight. Selena held her breath. She stared at the laptop screen. It felt alive to her like something evil waiting to attack them.Elliot replayed Griffin’s last words in his mind. They haunted him. “If you are seeing this… someone close to you is not who you think they are.” The words repeated over and over, like a drumbeat in his head.Selena shifted in her chair. Her voice was soft but urgent. “Elliot… Griffin meant someone in this house. Someone right here with us.”Elliot said nothing. He stood frozen, eyes locked on the laptop. His chest felt heavy. He struggled to breathe normally.The USB drive sat on the table in front of them. It was the same one Griffin had hidden before he vanished. Maybe right before someone tried to kill him. The thought made Elliot’s stomach twist.Finally, Elliot spoke. His voice was firm. “We have to watch every single file on this. No s
CHAPTER 48
THE SCARING TRUTHElliot pushed the heavy door open with his shoulder. Selena was right behind him. The warehouse felt colder than before but not because of the air. It felt cold because something bad had happened there, something recent.The guards quickly spread out. They looked into every corner and checked every dark shadow.Elliot stayed quiet. His mind kept going back to one strange line from the video on the USB drive:“You are the heir… but not the only one.”That sentence played over and over in his head like a slow, heavy drum.The phone call with Griffin was bad. He sounded defeated. Elliot wanted answers, or else he'd take revenge.Selena touched his arm to get his attention. “Elliot… look.”Something was different inside the warehouse.The table where they had left the laptop was now empty. No laptop. No USB drive. Nothing at all.Elliot stopped. His chest tightened. “Who touched it?” he asked in a low voice, almost a whisper.The guards looked confused and glanced at each
CHAPTER 47
THE MAN BEHIND THE SILENT Elliot didn’t sleep a single second that night. His mind replayed the same troubling scene over and over the unread message flashing briefly on the laptop screen, the one he and Selena missed. The message felt like a trap now too cold, too still, too simple. Something was waiting in the shadows of that silence, hiding in the dark where they hadn’t looked.Beside him, Selena sat curled on the edge of the bed, knees hugged tight to her chest. Her breathing was shallow, body tense as a coiled spring. “Elliot,” she whispered, voice fragile and raw, “what if someone else has that USB stick now?”His jaw tightened, muscles bunching under the skin. “They do,” he said firmly, his voice low and heavy. “And they’re watching us. Waiting for just the right moment.”“For us?” Selena’s question was barely audible, thick with fear.Elliot’s nod was slow, deliberate. “For both of us.”Suddenly, Elliot’s phone buzzed sharply. He snatched it up. No name, no number appeared on
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