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Ch. 128- One of Us
Connor returned to the hospital long after midnight, shoulders tense, the storm still clinging to him even though the rain outside had stopped hours ago. Kirra sensed it the moment he entered the dimly lit room. He had that look again… the one he wore only when he was hiding something sharp behind his eyes.But the first person he met there wasn't Kirra at all…*****Selene D’Arcy was standing barefoot in her penthouse, trembling.She had called him only once in the years he had known her voice, and tonight it was not the voice of the Titan Vice President or the woman who held boardrooms in the palm of her hand, it was the voice of someone who had just realized her world was not as secure as she believed.“There was a break-in,” she said the moment he arrived, her fingers clutching the silk robe at her collarbone. “Nothing stolen… there were files that had been accessed. And strangely enough, no doors were damaged either. I have no idea how they did it… or why.”She swallowed hard, le
Ch. 127- Next move?
The moment Rhea uttered the words “There’s a spy inside the hospital,” Kirra felt her blood pressure spike hard enough to set off the monitors beside her bed. The medic nearly fainted. Connor, who had been leaning over arranging her blankets with excessive gentleness for a man who had just threatened to raze a global syndicate, turned sharply.“A spy?” he said, voice dipping into that lethal register that made everyone else in the room want to hide behind furniture.Kirra pushed herself upright immediately. “Where? Who? Give me my boots.”“You’re not wearing boots,” Connor said flatly.“Then give me someone’s boots!”The medic squeaked in terror.Rhea lifted both hands. “The Architect planted someone to monitor Kirra’s vitals, report her healing, and possibly… verify if she survived.”Kirra’s eyes burned. “Then I’m going to find him.”“You’re not going anywhere.” Connor pressed her back against the pillows.She shoved his hand away. “I’m a trained operative, Connor. I can hunt one pha
Ch. 126- Coming for her
The rain hadn’t stopped by the time the early light of dawn started creeping across the city. Connor hadn’t slept at all… he sat beside Kirra the whole night, unmoving, monitoring every flicker of her pulse on the screen.By morning, the safehouse smelled of disinfectant and burnt metal from their ruined equipment. Kirra lay on the bed, eyes closed but no longer pale as death. Her breath came steadier.Connor finally exhaled. Only then did he stand, rolling his shoulders, pulling the blood-stained shirt off and replacing it with a crisp black one Rhea had brought him.He didn’t notice Kirra’s eyes crack open briefly, catching the image of him in the soft morning light.He changed clothes… here? In front of me?Her cheeks warmed before exhaustion dragged her back under.*Selene arrived exactly twenty minutes later — heels clicking sharply against the concrete floor, perfume sharp and expensive, expression already strained by something she wasn’t saying.“Connor.” She stood in the door
Ch. 125- Ambulance
Connor sat rigidly in the back of the ambulance, the rain-streaked city lights cutting across his face. Kirra’s fragile form lay on the stretcher beside him, chest rising and falling shallowly under the hiss of the oxygen mask. The rhythmic beeping of the monitors seemed too slow, too fragile, for the storm raging in his mind.“Hang on,” he whispered, leaning close. His hand brushed her damp hair from her forehead, but he dared not press too firmly. Her pulse was weak, yet stubbornly present, like she was holding on just for him.Rhea and Marcus trailed behind in the second SUV, the device Marcus had handed him already humming faintly, transmitting data in encrypted bursts. “We’ve got everything from the guard comms,” Marcus said casually, though his eyes were sharp, scanning the streets as though they expected an ambush at every corner. “Orders came in coded. Not Titan, or Hale. It's someone else.”Connor’s jaw clenched. “The Architect,” he muttered, voice low. “They want her dead
Ch. 124- Stay awake!
Connor lifted her, holding her against his chest, and carried her upward toward the collapsing world above… step by step, refusing to let her go.The stairwell roared behind him, flames swallowing steel. Concrete dust rained over his shoulders as he pushed forward, jaw clenched so tight it trembled. Kirra’s blood seeped through his shirt, warm at first… then frighteningly cold.“Kirra, stay awake,” he murmured, voice hoarse. “You promised me you’d walk out of this.”Her eyelids fluttered again. “I… didn’t promise. You… ordered…”“Then disobey me,” he snapped, breath breaking. “Just this once.”Her lips moved, barely forming a ghost of a smile before her head fell limp against him.A sound tore from his throat — too raw to be anger, too violent to be grief.He kicked open the emergency exit door.Only to find three Titan security officers blocking the path.“Drop the girl,” the leader barked. “By order of Director Hale—”Connor looked up slowly.And the expression he wore made all thre
Ch. 123- Refusal?
The night Titan Tower fell, the city looked like it was holding its breath. Rain hammered against the glass, lightning carving silver scars across the skyline, and deep beneath it all, the monolithic headquarters of Titan hummed with an unstable, frantic energy. Connor felt it the second he stepped off the elevator into the dim concrete labyrinth of the sub-levels… the electricity was wrong, too sharp, like a warning drawn in static.“Backup grid’s cycling. Hale’s trying to seal the vault,” Kirra’s voice crackled in his ear. “You have maybe six minutes before he locks you inside.”“Plenty,” Connor murmured as he walked, silent and deliberate, down the corridor. “Keep thermal on me. If security redirects—”“They won’t touch me,” she shot back. Strong, confident, but he heard the strain beneath. It lived there in the pauses before she breathed, the tension that came only when death was inches too close.Connor pushed it away. Tonight wasn’t about fear. Tonight was about ending somethi
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