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Chapter 99The room they called “Reorientation” wasn’t a room at all — it was a chamber buried beneath the command deck, lit by nothing but rotating panels of red and blue light that cast shadows over the wall of the building. The air was sterile, the kind that scraped the inside of your nose and made you feel like you were breathing in chemicals.They stripped me fast. Rough hands tearing off the damp clothes, yanking out the chip they knew was fake. My mask is gone. My boots are gone. I stood naked under the floodlights, my body trembling from the residual effects of the inhibitor, the cold, and the weight of what I was doing. But I didn’t flinch. I didn’t speak.They bound me to a vertical gurney with magnetic cuffs, wrists above my head, and ankles locked in place. A humming sound filled the room as the scanners came to life — a net of blue lasers crawling over my skin, measuring heat signatures, detecting anomalies in bone density, bloodstream composition, and even neural activ
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Chapter 98The morning came really fast. The breeze blew hard against my skin — harsh, cold, and without mercy. I didn’t sleep. Not even a blink. My body had settled into a mode I hadn’t known I could reach. It wasn’t adrenaline, not anymore. It was something deeper. Something primal. My mind had already begun constructing the person I needed to become.The clothes they gave me were different this time. Gone was the student uniform, the casual hoodie and jeans I’d worn to blend in. Instead, I now wore matte-black tactical fabric, light armor molded to my body, the kind Gregory’s inner circle wore. Juno handed it to me without a word, her eyes scanning mine for any hesitation.There wasn’t any.“Donovan wants to see you before you leave,” she said as I zipped the suit halfway up.“I’m not in the mood for a lecture.”It had been a while since I had seen Saul. He calls sometimes and I began to wonder what he was up to. “It’s not that kind of meeting.”Of course, it isn’t, I thought. No
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Chapter 97“Don’t you think we need to be on our toes right now? I am sure Gregory must have reached out to her by now,” I said, looking at Juno.She didn’t answer right away. Her focus was split, one hand still gripping her compact pulse pistol, the other navigating the dim, crumbling tunnel system beneath Eastbrook. Her jaw tightened as we stepped over debris and ducked under rusted piping.“Miralda always knows,” she said finally. “If Gregory slipped away, he’s already whispering in her ear. Maybe not in person yet, but trust me — she knows.”I felt the ache in my neck again. Whatever he’d injected me with still lingered, a numbing heat curling under my skin. My thoughts were slower than usual, fuzzier around the edges, but I forced myself to focus.“How long until they move locations?” I asked.“Hours, maybe less. Once she gets wind of this breach, she’ll scrub the place clean. Bodies, files, all of it.” Juno paused, turning sharply into a left-hand corridor that sloped downward.
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Chapter 96I didn’t ask for coffee.I didn’t ask for breakfast.When your knuckles are still split and your bones hum with the ache of yesterday’s pain, there’s no room for luxury — only focus.I had been training hard and more than I was supposed to by the way. They keep pushing me hard. Asking me to try things that I had thought of as not going to be possible in my wildest dreams.Donovan and Juno were already seated when I walked into the room. The table was backlit, displaying a 3D projection of Eastbrook’s underground systems — subway tunnels, maintenance shafts, and old storm drains that hadn’t seen use in years.“Sleep well?” Donovan asked without looking up.I knew it was a way of him trying to laugh or mock me. But still, they were my mentors and the only ones who could help me take down my target.I stared at the flickering lines on the projection. “Like a corpse.”Juno cracked a smile. Barely. “Fitting.”Donovan gestured for me to sit. “This is what you’re walking into,” he
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Chapter 95“They say monsters are born. But in our world... they’re trained.”I didn’t sleep that night.They gave me a room — one with blacked-out windows, a steel door, and a biometric lock that scanned my eye before letting me in. The bed was stiff, military-style, and the walls were lined with shelves full of books I didn’t recognize: titles about warfare, psychology, tactics, poisons, espionage. One corner of the room held a punching bag, another had a desk with a tray of surveillance equipment neatly arranged.But no photos. No warmth. Nothing that said “home.”Not that I was looking for comfort. I just wanted to understand what I had stepped into.At 4:00 a.m., a knock came — short, sharp, final.I opened the door to find Laverne standing there, dressed in a gray tracksuit, arms crossed. “Training begins now. You’ve had enough rest for someone who’s about to bleed.”She turned and walked briskly down the hall without another word.I followed.No questions asked and no sign o
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Chapter 94“Blood doesn’t make us family. Loyalty does. But sometimes… blood gives you the power you never knew you had.”The Carter estate was unlike anything I had ever seen before. It was having many rooms and places that were under lock and key that I began to wonder how many people lived inside the mansion. It wasn’t grand in the way that screamed wealth like Miralda’s mansion. No — this was different. The power here didn’t come from crystal chandeliers or marble floors. It bled from the walls, whispered from the shadows, and echoed in the silent glances passed between the guards that stood like statues at every entrance.Tall black gates lined with razor wire slid open silently as our car passed. Cameras tracked our every move. The trees stood like sentinels, dense and ancient as if they had watched over this place for centuries. As we pulled up the driveway, I caught a glimpse of a crest etched into the iron gate: a serpent coiled around a sword.Saul turned off the ignition
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