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Chapter 43 — The Man He Used To Be
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‎This was a conspiracy. And Adrian Voss had just stepped back into the center of it.

The archive room was still. Too still.

Smoke lingered faintly in the air, mixing with dust, burnt circuitry, and the sharp metallic scent left behind by gunfire.

‎Broken lights flickered overhead and sparks snapped from damaged panels but none of that mattered, because the silence pressing down on the room now carried something heavier than violence.

‎Truth. Or at least the beginning of it.

Victor holstered his
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