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Chapter 49 Part 3
"The restricted section. The man who was beside Mary's bed came through this facility before the attack. If he left any trace, I want to find it."The restricted corridor was dark and damaged from the fight. Adrian moved through it carefully, checking every room, every closet, every utility space. At the far end, a maintenance door led to an abandoned passage behind the building. Adrian pushed it open and stepped into the cold night air.The man was standing twenty meters away. Still, silent, facing Adrian as if he had been waiting.Adrian stopped. The two of them looked at each other across the empty space. Then the stranger moved. A single fighting technique, a defensive stance followed by a precise strike that cut through the air with controlled speed.Adrian's body responded before his brain could process what was happening. He copied the movement exactly. The same stance, the same strike, the same rhythm. Perfect. Flawless. Like a reflection in a mirror.The stranger watched him,
Chapter 49 Part 2
"Both. The people I work for don't introduce themselves. They send instructions. You follow them or you disappear."The man shifted in his chair, and his hand moved toward his left wrist. The motion was subtle, almost invisible, a single finger pressing against a spot beneath the skin.Adrian crossed the room in two steps and grabbed the man's wrist. "What are you doing?""Nothing. My hand was cramping."Adrian pressed his thumb against the spot where the man's finger had been. He felt it immediately. A small, hard object beneath the skin, no bigger than a grain of rice."There's something implanted here." Adrian turned to the security team. "Hold him still."The guards pinned the man's arms while Adrian examined the wrist more carefully. The device was embedded just below the surface, positioned between two tendons where it would be nearly impossible to detect through a standard search.Adrian's fingers moved with a precision that surprised even him. He knew exactly where to press, e
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Sarah worked through the recovered fragments for forty minutes while Adrian stood beside Mary's bed watching the monitors track her heartbeat. The facility was quiet now. The attackers were gone, two of them in custody, the rest vanished into the night. But the silence felt wrong, like the pause between a lightning flash and the thunder that follows."The Blackwood Protocol appears in three separate hospital records." Sarah turned her tablet toward him. "All three were filed under different patient names, but they share the same authorization code. BW dash seven seven dash zero one.""And the code is connected to my family.""It was created using a security format linked to your grandmother's estate. Whoever built the protocol had access to private Blackwood family records that have been sealed since before you were born."Adrian turned to the two nurses still standing near the door. Both of them had their eyes on the floor."Which one of you processed my mother's transfer to this fac
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Adrian's body moved before his brain gave the order. His hand shot out and caught the man's wrist. He twisted it with a precision that felt wrong, too clean, too natural, like a movement he had practiced a thousand times in a life he could not remember. The attacker's wrist snapped and Adrian drove him into the floor with a single motion.He stood over the fallen man, breathing hard, and looked at his own hands. The movement had come from somewhere deep inside him. Not from prison. Not from training. From a place that felt older than his conscious memory."Adrian, more coming from the east wing!" Kathy's voice cut through his thoughts."How many?""At least six."The attackers pushed into the medical wing in a tight formation. Adrian fought beside the security team, using the narrow corridors to his advantage. But then the attackers changed direction. They stopped pushing toward Mary's room and moved toward a restricted area at the end of the hall."They're not after my mother." Adria
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Adrian took the stairs. He pushed through the door to the third floor and found Mary's room at the end of the corridor. The door was open.She was lying on a hospital bed, unconscious, connected to machines he did not recognize. IV lines ran into both arms, and a monitor beside her displayed readings that made no sense to him. The dosage chart hanging from the bed rail was filled with handwriting he could not read."Something is wrong." Adrian leaned over the chart. "This dosage. The numbers don't match what's being administered."Kathy looked at the IV line. "The bag says forty milligrams. The chart says twenty five.""They're giving her almost double what's prescribed."A man in a white coat appeared in the doorway. Thin, grey haired, wearing glasses and an expression of professional irritation."Who are you, and why are you touching my patient's medication?""I'm her son. And your medication is going to kill her.""Excuse me? I have been treating this patient since she arrived. The
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Adrian stared at the frozen image on the screen. The man's silhouette beside Mary's bed pulled at something deep inside his chest, something buried so far down he could not name it. The way the man stood, the angle of his shoulders, the slight tilt of his head. Adrian had seen that posture before. Not in a photograph. In a mirror."Sarah, trace that footage. I need the exact location of the facility where my mother is being held.""Already working on it. The video feed was routed through three relay points, but the original signal is local. Somewhere within forty minutes of us."Chris pushed himself off the wall and straightened up with a wince. "I'm coming with you.""No.""Adrian, I have been part of this since before you were born. You cannot ask me to sit in a room while your mother is in danger.""I'm not asking. You were stabbed two weeks ago. You can barely stand without leaning on something. If we walk into a fight, you will slow us down or get yourself killed.""I can still c
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