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Chapter 13: Stockholm Syndrome
Author: Wonderful65
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The Remington Gulfstream sliced through the clouds, a silent predator heading for Stockholm. Inside, Aiden stared at the encrypted message Iron Sleep had intercepted: “They’ve buried me. But I remember everything. Come alone. Or not at all.”

Lyra was alive. But if that girl back at the mansion wasn’t her Then what was she? Meanwhile, Back at the Estate… Evelyn paced the hallway outside Aiden’s command room. She held the tablet with the decrypted Project Genesis file. Her hands shook. She knew what she had to do.

Tell him. Tell him she’d been assigned to him as a handler. That her love, her guidance, even her trust, had been programmed into him since birth. She entered the room. But he was gone.

All that remained was a blinking note on the desk: “I know. I still trust you. But I have to see this through alone.” Her knees buckled. He knew. And still… he left her behind.

Stockholm – The Facility. Aiden followed Iron Sleep’s signal to a remote pine forest on the edge of the archipelago.
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