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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
Ch. 122- Ghost
Rain swept across the skyline, streaking the glass of the city’s tallest tower in silver threads. The night was late, long past the hour when power players slept — but Selene D’Arcy wasn’t sleeping. She was being driven through the storm to a place she’d only heard about in whispers.Connor’s penthouse.It was supposed to be a strategy meeting — a review of Titan’s next restructuring phase after Hale’s exposure. But the tone of his message had been different this time. Just Come tonight. Alone.The elevator opened directly into the apartment. No security, no assistant. Just silence, and the low hum of the city below.The place wasn’t what she expected. No trophies. No art meant to impress. The walls were lined with old blueprints, schematics, and maps of trade routes — Titan’s old arteries, drawn by someone who knew them intimately.Connor stood by the window, his reflection merging with the lights outside. No mask tonight — no polished investor charm. He looked tired, sharper, almost
Ch. 121- Silence
The boardroom looked different without Blake Marrow’s, but despite the silence, calm was nowhere to be found. Every chair at the table seemed occupied by someone who was calculating their own way forward. Selene D’Arcy stood at the head of the table, speaking loudly. “As you can see, we have already started acting on our plans for stabilizing ourselves. The market hit was only temporary, and by next quarter, Titan’s numbers will be clean.”The directors exchanged glances; neither agreement, nor rebellion, just the quiet shuffle of people gauging which way power would tilt next.“Stabilizing?” murmured Director Lowe, one of the older members. “Ms. D’Arcy, Titan’s investors are questioning your handling of the scandal. They see a pattern of internal collapse.”Selene didn’t flinch. “Then perhaps they should remember who cleaned the mess your previous director made.”Lowe’s mouth tightened, but he said nothing more.The meeting ended with polite applause, but conclusion was easy to pred
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