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Chapter 46. The Silent Chamber.
Seth POVThe deeper they went, the more the mine felt like the belly of something alive. The tunnels sweated with damp heat, beads of condensation sliding down the black steel reinforcements like veins carrying poison. Seth’s visor readouts pulsed in low amber, nanotech filters scraping metallic dust from the air with every breath. Seth stopped at the next junction, boots sinking slightly into wet grit. The echo of the earlier explosion still trembled in the walls, a slow heartbeat of distant collapses. He tightened his grip on the pulse rifle. “We’re securing the chamber first.”Lucas stepped up beside him, helmet light flashing across jagged rock. “If General Cane’s down here... ”“Exactly why we have to secure it,” Seth cut in. “If the astrasite is the real target, that chamber is leverage. We can't leave it exposed.”The Ghost unit exchanged uneasy glances but obeyed. They had followed Seth through worse, frozen border conflicts, black market eradication sweeps and they trusted h
Chapter 45. The Rescue That's Too Late.
Seth POVThe mine screamed like a dying animal. Each step Seth took sent a groan through the ancient shaft, a hollow, angry sound that rattled his teeth and vibrated in his bones. Dust swirled in the beam of his helmet light, thick as smoke. The acrid tang of burnt metal mixed with the sharp sting of ozone, burning the back of his throat. Every inhale scraped his lungs raw.Lucas crouched just ahead, fingers pressed against the jagged wall where the explosion had torn the tunnel open. Sparks hissed from a half melted power conduit, throwing erratic flashes of blue light across his scarred face. “Tracker reading?” Lucas asked, voice muffled behind his respirator.Seth raised his wrist display, its screen flickering like it was being drowned in static. A pulsing red dot blinked weakly in the far corner of the map, it was Vin and she was still alive. But the signal wavered like a heartbeat fading into flatline.“Still breathing,” Seth said, though the words came out clipped, more with a
Chapter 44. Unfortunate Encounter.
Vin’s POVThe blast roared through the mine like a starving beast, a concussive wave that rattled the earth and clawed at Vin’s eardrums. The air became a living thing... hot, sharp, vibrating with the sound of tearing stone. Dust whirled in a storm around her as fragments of glowing astrasite rained like blue comets. She ducked behind a jagged pillar, teeth grinding as the pressure wave hammered her ribs.And then… silence.Not the silence of safety, this was the taut, ringing void after a killing blow, when the world pauses just long enough to decide whether it will collapse.The mine still stood.Vin opened her eyes to a haze of shimmering blue. Her pulse slammed against her throat. It survived. The tunnels hadn’t caved in. The astrasite veins along the walls pulsed with an otherworldly glow, cracks running like neon lightning through the rock. She had expected the explosion to bury everyone, Seth, his soldiers, herself if necessary. Instead, the mine stood tall and strong, even un
Chapter 43. Vin’s Gambit.
Vin’s POVThe shaft narrowed until it felt like the earth itself was trying to crush her. Vin flattened her shoulders and slithered forward, knees scraping raw against rusted steel. The ventilation grate ahead glowed faintly with the ghost blue shimmer of astrasite. Each inch forward tasted of copper and damp stone. Her heart pounded like a war drum, not from exertion, but from the thought that Seth was somewhere behind her, fast, relentless, and very much alive."How? How was he alive?" She pondered at the back of her mind.The question gnawed at her. By all reports, Seth had fallen off a cliff months ago, a neat little accident she’d celebrated with a private toast. But tonight he’d caught her wrist with speed that wasn’t human, eyes sharp enough to slice her disguise apart in a heartbeat. His survival rewrote the game.Vin shoved the thought aside and checked the timer on her wrist pad. The nanotech trackers he had planted when he grabbed her would take at least three more minutes
Chapter 42. Into the Dark.
The Tyrel estate slept like a beast pretending to be harmless. From the outside, it looked like nothing more than a grand old mansion, the kind of place where bored nobles hosted charity dinners and bragged about their wine collections. But in the dead of night, with the moon crouched low behind a bank of clouds, the place radiated quiet menace. Every shadow seemed alive. Every breath of wind whispered a warning.Seth crouched behind a cluster of trimmed hedges, visor dimmed, heartbeat steady. The Ghost Unit, a handpicked team of elite operatives waited silently behind him, their matte black armor absorbing what little light bled through the mist. Lucas knelt at his side, holding a sleek scanning pad that pulsed with a soft green glow.“She’s still moving,” Lucas murmured. “Tracker shows intermittent spikes. Ventilation tunnels. She’s heading... down.”Seth’s eyes narrowed. Of course she is. Vin wasn’t the type to skulk through kitchens or hide in linen closets. She always went for th
Chapter 41. Threads of Steel.
The moon was a pale knife in the sky, carving silver light across the sleeping Tyrel estate. From the outside, the mansion looked like a painting, peaceful, timeless. But Seth knew better. Behind those walls, a predator was already moving, and every minute they hesitated gave her another step toward whatever she was after.He tightened the black tactical jacket around his shoulders and stepped into the dim warehouse where Lucas waited. The air smelled faintly of gun oil and cold metal. Lucas stood over a holographic map, his sharp eyes locked on the glowing schematic of the Tyrel grounds.“You saw her?” Lucas asked without turning, his voice clipped.Seth’s jaw flexed. “Not just saw her, fucking hell I caught her. She’s fast tho... faster than anyone we’ve dealt with. And she’s good at playing the harmless maid.”Lucas finally looked up, dark brows rising. “A maid?”“That’s the disguise,” Seth said, rubbing his thumb across the faint bruise on his wrist where she’d twisted free. “But
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