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Chapter 56 Part 3
"The forgery is on pages thirty seven through thirty nine," Adrian said to the room. "Anyone with a basic knowledge of document analysis can verify it. The paper fiber, the ink composition, and the binding adhesive on those three pages don't match the rest of the manuscript."Victor's own uncle, a grey haired man standing near the edge of the circle, reached for the manuscript. Victor snatched it away."Don't touch it," Victor snapped."Let him see it," a voice said from the crowd."I said don't touch it."The uncle's eyes narrowed. The doubt on his face was visible to everyone in the room.Victor's composure shattered. He threw the manuscript aside and lunged at Adrian with a roar that echoed off the concrete walls.His first strike was fast and furious, aimed at Adrian's jaw. Adrian moved sideways, letting the fist pass through empty space. Victor followed with a spinning kick that Adrian deflected with his forearm, the impact rattling through his bones.Three fighters from Victor's
Chapter 56 Part 2
Victor's smile widened. It was the smile of a predator who had just spotted something small and slow moving across an open field."Your father was a thief," Victor said loudly. Loudly enough that every conversation within thirty feet died instantly. "He walked into our family's home, pretended to be a researcher, and stole a forbidden technique that had been guarded by the Cross bloodline for five generations."Murmurs rippled through the room. Bodies shifted. The circle around them tightened."You inherited his debt," Victor continued, stepping closer. His voice carried the easy cruelty of someone who had practiced this kind of humiliation his entire life. "And you walked in here wearing that debt on your face like you don't even know it exists."Adrian's expression didn't change. He stood with his weight evenly balanced, his hands loose at his sides."Kneel," Victor said.The word dropped into the silence like a stone into a frozen pond."Kneel and apologize for what your father did
Chapter 56 Part 1
The attacker's eyes were glassy and his skin had turned the color of old paper. Adrian grabbed his jaw and forced his mouth open. The smell hit him instantly. Bitter almonds mixed with something chemical and sharp."What did you take?" Adrian demanded.The man's lips moved but no sound came out. His hand was still clutching a small syringe he had pulled from a hidden pocket inside his boot. The needle was empty."Adrian, he's coding," Sarah said from behind him, her voice tight. "His heart rate is dropping fast."Adrian looked at the syringe. His mind moved before he told it to. The color of the residue, the viscosity, the speed of the reaction. He knew this compound."It's a modified cyanide derivative," Adrian said, already reaching for the medical kit on the wall. "Mixed with a synthetic paralytic to stop the lungs before the heart. Standard protocol is useless. You need to counteract the paralytic first."Sarah stared at him. "How do you know that?""I don't know how I know. Give
Chapter 55 Part 3
"My prison injuries didn't just damage my body," he said slowly. "They damaged neural pathways connected to my forgotten memories. The memories weren't completely erased. They were blocked. And certain triggers, movements, medicines, pressure points, even smells, can break through the block and bring fragments back."He turned to Sarah. "If I can reproduce the right sequence of physical triggers, I might be able to recover everything. Not just combat techniques. Everything they took from me."Sarah opened her mouth to respond, but a sound cut through the room. A sharp crack, followed by the building alarm screaming to life."We're under attack," Sarah said, her tablet already in her hands.Adrian grabbed his jacket and ran.The training facility's west entrance had been breached. Four men in tactical gear were moving through the corridor in a tight formation. Adrian reached the intersection just as Damien appeared from the opposite hallway, already in a fighting stance."Friends of yo
Chapter 55 Part 2
"The staff is talking. Half the accounting department thinks we're going under by Friday. Two of your best project managers submitted their resignations this morning." Greg leaned forward with the expression of a man who had been waiting a long time to say what he was about to say. "This is what happens when you trust a man like Julian Malcolm with the keys to the vault. He was a parasite, and you let him feed until there was nothing left.""I didn't come here for a lecture, Greg.""And while we're being honest," Greg continued, ignoring her completely, "your little ex boyfriend Adrian Cole isn't helping either. That useless ex convict is hiding behind Skyward's money and pretending to be important while the rest of us clean up the mess he left behind."Chloe's jaw tightened. Something hot and sharp climbed up her throat.She should have defended Adrian. She knew that. Somewhere beneath the anger and the humiliation and the years of resentment, she knew that Greg's words were the word
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The facility sat behind a row of dead oak trees at the end of a road that didn't appear on any map Adrian had ever seen. The building was old, three stories of grey concrete with blacked out windows and a rusted chain link fence that someone had been maintaining just enough to keep standing.Damien stopped at the gate and turned around."This is as far as I planned to bring you," he said, his jaw tight. "What's inside is my family's responsibility. It has been for over twenty years.""Your family has been guarding a medical facility for twenty years," Adrian said, his voice flat, "and you never thought to mention it.""I'm mentioning it now.""After I followed you here." Adrian looked past him at the building. "What's inside, Damien?"Damien's hands went into his pockets. His shoulders dropped slightly, not with defeat but with the exhaustion of a man who had been carrying something too heavy for too long."Records," Damien said. "Equipment. Research that was supposed to have been des
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