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The Silence After
Author: Lee Ray
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Chapter 45: The Silence After

Paris woke slowly after the storm. The morning sky was pale and colourless, and clouds stretched like bruises across the horizon. From the broken glass of Évra Tower, the city below looked peaceful, unaware of the chaos that had unfolded above it.

Lucas stood near the shattered window, the cold wind moving through the empty executive suite. He had not spoken since Julian fell. The silence pressed around him, vast and weightless.

Emily was on the floor by the console, watching the final lights of the Dominion system flicker and fade. The hum of the servers that had once powered billions of lines of control code was now a dying whisper. The entire network was collapsing inward, fragmenting itself into useless data.

“It’s over,” she said quietly, almost to herself.

Lucas didn’t answer. His reflection in the glass looked hollow, like a man standing inside someone else’s body.

Emily stood slowly, crossing the room. “Lucas, we have to move. The authorities will
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