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Chapter 120
THE FIRST DESIGN***Celeste woke to silence so complete it rang in her ears.Not the quiet of sleep or peace, but the kind of emptiness that felt engineered—walls swallowing sound, air thick with antiseptic and old metal. Her eyelids fluttered open slowly, pain blooming behind her temples. The light above her was dim and clinical, flickering like it hadn’t been replaced in years.She was lying on a narrow medical table.Straps circled her wrists and ankles not tight, not cruel, but deliberate. Designed to restrain without injury. Cain design.Her chest tightened.She tried to sit up. The straps held. Panic surged, sharp and fast, but she forced it down, breathing through her nose the way she’d learned as a child whenever Victor’s temper filled a room.Observe first and react later.The room came into focus.Old Cain Global insignia was etched into the walls, half-scraped away as if someone had tried to erase it and failed. Rust crept along the edges of stainless-steel cabinets. Dust l
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THE FREQUENCY THAT BINDS***The first thing Luther felt was weight.Not pain—weight. Concrete pressed against his back, dust filled his lungs, and the air vibrated with a low, electric sound that set his teeth on edge. The Echelon Gene reacted instantly, trying to calculate escape vectors, probability fractures, and survival outcomes.He forced it down.Not shut down but controlled.Celeste’s scream still echoed in his head, sharp and real and terrifying in a way no projection could replicate. That sound anchored him more effectively than any discipline Selene had ever taught him.He pushed against the rubble, muscles screaming, and rolled onto his side. The factory floor above had collapsed into layers of twisted steel and broken conduits, glowing faintly with residual Gene energy.“Celeste,” he whispered, not activating comms yet. “I’m coming.”Above ground, Selene was already bleeding.She hadn’t noticed when it started only when Marcus grabbed her wrist and pulled her away from a
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THE PROBABILITY OF BLOOD***The city no longer felt like a place.It felt like a living equation-numbers shifting, outcomes collapsing and reforming, chance bending under invisible pressure. Storm clouds rolled low and heavy, not natural anymore, dragged into place by systems Cain Global once controlled and now barely pretended to restrain. Sirens wailed without pattern. Lights flickered across entire districts like dying neurons.And at the center of it all, Luther Cain was losing control.The moment Celeste vanished from that room, something inside him fractured not loudly, not dramatically, but with a quiet, terrifying certainty. The Echelon Gene surged past conscious command, flooding his nervous system with raw probability data. Futures stacked on futures. Outcomes screamed for dominance. Every breath felt like standing on the edge of a thousand cliffs at once.Marcus grabbed his arm as the lights came back on, a space where Celeste had been.“Luther focus,” Marcus said, voice ti
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The city was alive with an undercurrent of chaos. Streets that had been orderly minutes ago now twisted in confusion as power grids fluctuated under unseen manipulation. Traffic lights blinked randomly; automated surveillance drones spun in erratic patterns, colliding with one another midair. Across the skyline, skyscrapers reflected lightning like fractured mirrors.Inside the Shadow Syndicate safehouse, the team worked in a tense silence. The discovery that Revenant was the firstborn Cain had shifted the battlefield from predictable to nearly impossible. Every probability model Selene ran seemed to collapse under the weight of an intelligence that outmaneuvered the human mind—and the Echelon Gene.Luther stood at the center of the room, eyes fixed on the largest screen. Multiple feeds from the city streamed in real time: security cameras, drones, and satellite projections. Every frame, every movement was being manipulated—or anticipated.Selene’s voice came through, urgent. “Revenan
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Rain poured over the city like a curtain of liquid glass, streaking down glass towers and painting the streets below in distorted reflections. The night felt unusually still, a calm stretched across chaos, as if the city itself were holding its breath.Adrian Cain stood on the balcony of a high-rise overlooking the financial district, hands gripping the cold steel railing. His suit was damp, his hair plastered to his forehead, and yet nothing mattered more than the file in his hands. A file so tightly controlled it should not have existed, yet here it was a proof that threatened to unravel everything the Cain family had built.He muttered to himself, barely audible over the storm. “So… all this time… I was wrong. And we were wrong. Everything Victor built… everything he hid…”The document trembled in his hands. Scanned, encrypted, buried in the deepest layers of Cain Global’s legacy archives—now in Adrian’s possession. Every signature, every date, every cross-reference… pointed to one
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The air in the Shadow Syndicate’s temporary safehouse was thick with smoke and tension. Dust from the previous skirmishes still hung in the corners, and the faint sound of backup generators served as the only heartbeat of the place. The massacre at the Cain-owned archive still lingered like a phantom, echoing in every shadow.Celeste sat against the wall, knees drawn up, staring at the cracked floor. Her fingers traced the scratches, but it didn’t help her think. She knew Revenant was out there, watching, waiting, learning, and with Luther still recovering his emotional footing, she felt the weight of responsibility pressing down harder than ever.Selene was tapping frantically at her portable console, her eyes red but focused. “I’m trying to patch us into secondary data feeds, but it’s almost useless. Cain Global’s grids are being rewritten in real time. Whoever is doing this isn’t just powerful they’re rewriting history itself.”“I don’t like this,” Celeste muttered. “Every step we
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