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Chapter 105We reached the Carter mansion back in time. The servants rushed towards us to help some of the students into the compound while a stretcher was brought for Juliet. I didn't allow them to take her. I was going to make sure I saw all the processes of her recovery. The underground med-bay—where Juno said sympathetic doctors still operated in secret—was our only shot.I carried Juliet in my arms like she was made of glass, her blood soaking through my shirt, my own injuries forgotten. Juno had radioed ahead, and a nurse waited by the entrance, her eyes wide with worry as she ushered us through the maze of the underground facilities. I looked around, not sure if the Carters had something like this. The smell of antiseptic filled the room as we approached.“She’s crashing,” the nurse said sharply, checking Juliet’s pulse as I laid her on a stretcher. “We need a plasma transfusion—stat!”I didn’t move.I just stood still, staring at Juliet, who looked like she was not going to
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Chapter 104“ It is me.” She said with a gentle voice. My eyes nearly popped out of their socket when I saw it was her.“Juliet,” I called out slowly. “ How did you get here?” I said feeling sympathy for her. Her body was deformed and she looked like she was going to die anytime soon. “ I knew. I saw the demon Nathan and his father. The manor was never all about this. It was about having power inside the school. We never wanted to destroy any lives but Nathan had other plans. He…” Juliet was about to say another word when she sputtered out blood from her mouth. “ Step on it!” I shouted at Junno from where I sat. “ We could know about what is going back home if we manage to save her life.” Juno didn’t wait for a second command. Her hands gripped the wheel and the transport roared to life, careening down the broken trail that led away from the collapsed facility. The sky was still streaked with smoke and the ash of fallen buildings, but the horizon showed the first real blue I’d se
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Chapter 103 As the building collapsed around us my gaze was fixed on the kids and some of the adults that were taken. There was little time for introducing ourselves. I noticed some of them kept looking at me while some were even scared of me. “ I am not going to harm any of you. Where are you from?” I asked one of the students staring at me. “ Chicago.” She said weakly and burst into tears. “ My mother must be worried by now.” She said sobbing I looked at them and I felt moved. “ Don't worry, guys. We are all going home.”The word was comforting but now I had to back it with some action. My powers were beginning to give some side effects. I winced in pain each time as I tried to find the meeting point on the map. A low rumble vibrated through the floor, and the ceiling above groaned as debris rained down like judgment. I shielded the nearest kids with my body, raising an arm instinctively—the kinetic field flared out again, forming a dome that deflected the falling metal. Pain l
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Chapter 102The static deepened—warping, unraveling into shapes and pulses of light until a face appeared in the projection.Not a person.A symbol. The sigil of the Varia Project. Twisting, burning like embers forged from code.Then a voice, smooth and synthetic, filled the room.“Sequence initialized. Subject: Adrian. Restriction protocol: lifted.”The disc pulsed once—then again—before surfing a wave of heat that slammed into my chest like a defibrillator. I screamed, not from pain, but from the surge. It wasn’t electricity—it was power. Like my cells had been dormant, waiting for permission to awaken. Now the shackles were off.The headache vanished.The burning in my eyes? Gone.In its place was clarity.My fingertips trembled—then glowed, veins lighting up like neon pathways. My heartbeat sounded like thunder, my breath came in bursts, and I could hear—not just the walls humming, but conversations three chambers over. Heartbeats. The shifting of guards’ boots. Someone is crying
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Chapter 101I kept holding. The thought of what I was slowly becoming scared the hell out of me. I knew something was wrong with me. With my system. Miralda was pushing me to my limit. Breaking me bit by bit. Saul’s words kept echoing in my ears. The loud gunshot that robbed Park of his life and the devilish smile on Nathan's face was all I could think about. The pain meant little to me. All I focused on was two things. Rescuing the little friends I had made in the dungeon I was being thrown after each experiment. I began to think Donovan had forgotten me. We had a deal and he was going to pull me out when everything was going awol.I was beginning to think I had been forgotten and left there to rot in Milrada's dungeon. I could feel my body changing. The constant headache and the sore eyes. Everything was getting to me. I began to lose hope of getting out alive. But maybe that was the point. Maybe Miralda knew exactly what she was doing—removing every layer of identity I had,
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Chapter 100The walls of the cell were too clean. Too smooth. No screws, no seams, no imperfections to hide behind. Just the humming of unseen machinery, the distant buzz of voices beyond reinforced doors, and the taste of recycled air laced with disinfectant.I didn't touch the food. I couldn’t—not because of pride or strategy, but because my stomach had turned into a pit of molten iron. The injection hadn’t worn off. Not fully. My skin still itches like it didn’t belong to me, and my vision kept warping—edges too sharp, shadows too alive. The world hadn’t gone back to normal. It had just become... clearer.Saul’s voice kept echoing in my mind.I don’t need your trust. I need your rage.Well, he had it. All of it.I thought of Zee again. Her laughter. Her blood. Nathan had made it personal. His father made it systematic. And now Miralda, with her too-perfect face and perfectly folded hands, wanted to make it clinical.No.They wanted to make me useful.A soft hiss preceded the door s
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