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Ch-69
The soft whir of a smoothie blender filled the Imperium Corp breakroom as Nathan leaned over the counter, watching the machine struggle through frozen berries. He didn’t usually take breaks, he couldn’t afford to with the ring pulsing strange energy through his veins.But Harper had insisted. And so here he was, watching blueberries and protein powder be chopped into a pulp just so they could become something nutritious.He became alert as soon as he heard a yelp.“Agh—dammit!”Harper hissed, yanking her hand back from the drawer she had just opened. A splatter of red stained her fingers.Nathan was beside her in a blink.“What happened?”“The blender blade in the drawer wasn’t stored right.” She winced, holding up her palm. A clean, shallow slice curved across her skin.Nathan reached for a paper towel but hesitated.Something about the cut, the way her skin flared red, tugged at his senses. He wasn’t thinking. He just touched her wrist with two fingers.And the ring warmed.Harper
Ch-68
From the far end of the cafés wide glass windows, hidden by the shadows of a half-drawn curtain, Miko stood motionless.Her almond-shaped eyes, usually so calm, now shimmered with restrained alarm.She had followed her instincts to the café after Harper texted her to meet but hadn’t expected this—Nathan and Harper locked in an embrace, surrounded by a radiant flare from his ring. Not a trick of light. Not technology. Something older. Deeper.As the glow faded and the pair stood there, breathless and changed, Miko pressed her palm to the cool glass.It was just like in the scrolls.Her grandfather’s stories drifted back to her like a song on wind. Scrolls written in forgotten dialects, describing artifacts said to be forged from cosmic stone, imbued with the essence of celestial guardians. Artifacts that reacted to soul alignment—where two beings momentarily became one.She had always assumed it was folklore. Romanticized nonsense passed down from monk to child.But she had just witnes
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
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