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Ch-67
Lucas lay in a crumpled heap against the cafe's tile floor, groaning faintly, one arm twisted at a sickening angle. The glass he’d been holding had shattered on impact, its remnants glinting around his motionless hand.Nathan stood over him with measured calm, not a scratch on his face, only the faint gleam of his ring, still pulsing softly with residual energy.Harper stepped forward cautiously, her gaze darting from Lucas to Nathan. “You broke his arm.”“He came at me,” Nathan said flatly. “With a punch and a plan.”Her voice lowered. “And you caught every single move like you’d seen it five seconds before he made it.”“I did.”She blinked. “You read him.”Nathan finally looked at her, something unreadable in his eyes. “I felt you too. When he started pressuring you… I felt it. The ring... it reacts when you're distressed.”Harper’s lips parted slightly. “You felt me?”He nodded once. “Your panic. Your tension. Not just words. The ring... it doesn’t just read minds anymore. It sense
Ch-66
Nathan stepped into the penthouse, the metallic scent of blood still faint on his jacket. His mind buzzed with the phantom imprint of the fight,.but it wasn’t the fight that was lingering in his mind. It was the fact that someone had been there, but before he could spiral into that thought again, a soft voice broke the silence.“I saw you…” Harper said from the hallway, arms crossed, her eyes unreadable.Nathan turned. “What… what did you just say?”“In the parking garage.”She clarified. “I was there, just coming to help you. I was halfway down the stairwell when I heard the first scream.’She said, stepping into the light. “But by the time I got there, you were already dismantling them like they were made of glass.”Nathan didn’t respond at first, and Harper studied him carefully. “I didn’t step in because I didn’t need to, but I noticed something. Back there, you didn’t just fight them. You were predicting their movements before they decided what they do, and you moved like y
Ch-65
Nathan left the lab with his mind brimming. Something about the way Harper and Miko mirrored each other. Two different women with minds too quiet to read, had unearthed a question he hadn’t yet dared to ask. But the whisper of war within Imperium Corp demanded that he should shelve it for the moment. His steps were swift as he headed down to the underground garage. The concrete structure was quiet, unnervingly so. The hum of security lights and distant clicks of metal echoed off the empty walls. Nathan pressed the key fob, and his car responded with a low chirp. He rounded the corner toward his vehicle, and stopped.Something was wrong.There. A shadow that moved too slow, as if trying not to move at all. Another behind a support pillar, breath sharp and irregular. Nathan didn’t hear them.He felt their presence before anything else.Six minds. Sharp, urgent, twitching with nerves and aggression.They were here for him.His muscles coiled, but not from fear. The ring pulsed faintly
Ch-64
Harper stood in the east wing of the Imperium headquarters, eyes scanning through a complex data trail splayed across multiple monitors. A web of overlapping file transfers, strange login attempts, and packet trails pulsed in bright lines across the holographic interface."It is the third anomaly this week."She muttered, fingers flying across the glass. "Whoever is doing this knows the system. They're mimicking clearance levels a little too well."Behind her, Nathan leaned against the frame of the observation deck window, watching, not just her movements, but the emotions flickering just beneath her surface.She had changed.Ever since the vault and the sync with 028C, Harper had grown sharper, more attuned. Her instincts were almost surgical now. But there was something else. Something Nathan wasn’t prepared for.A whisper of longing.His name, soft in thought.A flash of him across her mind—unbidden.He tried not to invade, but the ring fed him signals whether he wanted them or not
Ch-63
The call lingered in Nathan’s ear long after the line went dead. He stared at the city lights through the glass, his father’s words burning in the back of his mind. Draw the line.But how could he draw boundaries when even his own mind was stretching in directions he hadn’t expected?He brought the ring to his lips, breathing slow and steady, grounding himself. The faint hum beneath his skin hadn’t stopped since Tokyo—not since that moment in the crowd when the mental noise had nearly buckled his knees.He dialed back, and called his father again.This time, his father answered before the first ring ended.“Is there something else, son?” Nathan hesitated. “Yes, there is another thing, but about me. About what the ring is doing.”His father waited.Nathan exhaled. “I’m reading minds.”Silence.“I can’t always control it,” he added quickly. “But I hear… thoughts. Not just emotions, not just instincts. Words. Intentions. Even lies. Sometimes all at once.”His father’s voice didn’t wave
Ch-62
The hum of the private jet faded into the distance as Miko Tanaka stepped onto the tarmac, flanked by two of her tech advisors. Her posture was composed, her eyes scanning the unfamiliar skyline. She wore a sleek black suit, her long dark hair tied into a high knot. Nathan had arranged for a quiet arrival, without any press or cameras, but she still drew attention just by being herself.Nathan was waiting at the terminal entrance, with Harper beside him.When the women finally stood face to face, Nathan watched carefully, almost unconsciously letting the ring hum against his skin. It was an old habit now, sensing intentions, unraveling the first layer of thought before words were spoken.But there was nothing for him to sense.Miko’s mind, as before, was shrouded in mist, calculating, deliberate, but blurred. He felt a gentle static, like trying to tune into a station just slightly out of range. But as he turned to Harper, preparing to sense the flicker of recognition or curiosity..
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