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CHAPTER 129 — TERMS OF PEACE
The broadcast cut through the city without warning.Every screen—public kiosks, wall ads, transit displays, home devices that were supposed to be offline—flickered once, then resolved into the same image.Victor Cain is seated calmly and immaculately.Behind him stretched a minimalist white backdrop embossed with the Cain Global insignia, softened now, redesigned—rounded edges, muted tones, the visual language of reassurance. No towers. No weapons. No signs of war.Just a fatherly billionaire addressing his people.Luther saw it from the safehouse, the image blooming across Selene’s emergency monitor as the generators stuttered back to life. Celeste froze mid-step. Marcus swore under his breath.Adrian groaned weakly on the cot.Victor smiled.“My fellow citizens,” he began, voice warm, measured, almost gentle. “I come to you today not as a CEO… not as a patriarch… but as a man deeply concerned for the safety of the world we share.”Selene’s hands curled into fists. “He’s good,” she m
Chapter 128-FRACTURE POINT
Adrian Cain had stopped screaming an hour ago. Not because the pain had eased but because his body no longer had the strength to give it sound.The safehouse beneath the old financial district was quiet in the wrong way—thick, airless, humming with failing generators and half-buried Cain tech stripped down by Selene weeks earlier. Emergency lights cast long red shadows across concrete walls etched with old corporate seals. Cain Global had once hidden fortunes here.Now it hid a dying heir.Adrian lay on the reinforced cot, shirt soaked through with sweat, veins along his neck and arms glowing faintly silver-blue beneath his skin. The Echelon Gene pulsed inside him like a living thing, surging in erratic waves that made his muscles spasm and his breath hitch.Marcus stood nearby, arms crossed, jaw tight. He’d seen men bleed out on battlefields and alleys. This was worse. This was watching someone dissolve from the inside.Selene knelt at a portable console beside the cot, fingers movin
Chapter 127-SEVEN POINTS OF FAILURE
Selene Drake hated patterns.They always meant someone smarter than you had already decided how things were supposed to go.The command center was dim, lit mostly by the cold glow of data walls. Outside, rain hammered against corrugated steel like static interference. Inside, the air vibrated with tension and the faint, ever-present hum of rerouted Cain infrastructure.Selene stood at the center console, sleeves rolled up, dark circles under her eyes, fingers flying.She hadn’t slept. She didn’t intend to.“Okay,” she muttered, dragging a lattice of light across the main screen. “Let’s stop pretending this is chaos.”Luther leaned against a support beam nearby, arms folded, face drawn. Marcus stood beside him, silent, watchful. Celeste sat at the long table, spine straight, hands clasped so tightly her knuckles had gone white.Selene inhaled slowly and brought the data together.Seven vertical columns bloomed into view—schematics, coordinates, system identifiers.Seven towers and it w
Chapter 126-THE SILENCE SHE WEARS
Celeste Cain learned how to disappear without leaving a room long before she learned how to fight back.It was a skill Victor had taught her without meaning to—how to still her face, regulate her breathing, smooth fear into something palatable. A daughter of Cain did not crack. A liability did not show itself.So when the transport doors sealed and the city blurred past in streaks of neon and ash, Celeste sat beside Luther with her spine straight and her expression composed.Inside, everything shook.Luther leaned back against the wall of the armored carrier, eyes closed, jaw tight. A thin line of dried blood traced his temple. His right hand trembled faintly where it rested on his knee—subtle enough that only someone who knew him would notice.Celeste noticed.She also noticed how he kept his breathing shallow, how he avoided touching the side where the suppression field had burned into him.She wanted to reach for him but she didn’t. Not yet.Selene stood at the front of the transpo
Chapter 125
THE WEIGHT OF THE CHOICE***The lab died screaming.Steel groaned, concrete fractured. Emergency lights burst one after another, plunging the chamber into violent flashes of red and shadow. The suppression field around Luther Cain crackled, a lattice of cold blue energy pinning him in place as the ceiling began to give way.Above, Celeste ran.Her boots slipped on dust and oil as she tore down the corridor, alarms blaring so loud they rattled her teeth. Every instinct in her body screamed to turn back—to run toward him instead of away.But Luther had looked at her, not with fear but with certainty.Run. The memory burned.Behind her, the ground buckled. The lab shuddered as ancient Cain systems failed in a cascading sequence. This place had been a tomb long before it began to collapse.Celeste burst through a blast door just as it slammed shut behind her, the impact knocking her off her feet. She hit the floor hard, air rushing from her lungs.“Luther!” she screamed, pounding the seal
Chapter 124
THE CHOICE THAT BREAKS THE FUTURE***The last door didn’t explode.It gave way.Luther felt it before it happened—the subtle collapse of resistance, probability folding inward like a held breath finally released. The reinforced steel door bowed, sighed, and slid from its frame as if it had always been meant to open for him.Smoke curled low along the floor of the abandoned Cain laboratory. Emergency lights flickered, bathing the corridor in pulses of red and shadow. The air hummed with old power—legacy systems waking reluctantly, recognizing a Gene signature they had been built to obey.Luther stepped inside. His boots echoed once.Then stopped.“Celeste,” he called, his voice rough, stripped raw by fear and restraint.No answer.The Echelon Gene stirred, eager, offering him a thousand paths—ways to tear the building apart, ways to reach her in seconds, ways to end this without mercy.He didn’t take them.Not yet.He moved forward carefully, senses stretched thin, every sound amplifie
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