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The File
Marcel stood in the dim study with the key still clutched in his fist.The System warning sat heavy in his head. Killing everyone else had bought him more power than he expected. But the moment he chose mercy the connection to Cain had slipped. He felt it now, a faint crack in the chain that tied him to the voice. It was like the old man was losing his grip. Marcel stared at the key in his hand. For the first time he wondered if refusing to kill could actually weaken the entity inside him.He turned to the captured man on the floor. “Who sent the men? Who ordered the attack on the house?”The man spat blood and stayed silent. Clutching his chest and refusing to look up at Marcel Marcel stepped closer. “Talk or I start cutting pieces off you. Slowly.”The man laughed weakly. “You think a knife will make me break? You have no idea what we live through"Marcel took out the small black key and held it up. “This is the one that opens the old room beneath the study. If you do not tell me w
The Recording
Marcel froze in the doorway of his father’s old study. The final words from the recording still hung in the air. “If Aurora is with you, do not trust her.” His eyes snapped toward Aurora. The suspicion hit him hard. Lily took one step away from her without thinking. Elias reached for the weapon tucked under his jacket and stared at her like she was a stranger. Marcel voice came out sharp. “You knew about this. You knew my father left that message.” Aurora shook her head fast. “I did not know anything about a recording. I swear on everything I have.” Lily voice stayed small but steady. “She has been here before. I can feel it.” Elias pointed at Aurora. “She was there the night your father disappeared. I saw her. She was ordered to watch the house. Tell me she is lying.” Aurora looked at Marcel. “I was not part of the attack. I was ordered to watch and report whether your father had found anything about the System.” Marcel voice rose. “You did not warn him. You let him die.” Aur
: The Man Who Should Be Dead
Marcel stood frozen in the doorway of his father’s old study.Lily moved behind him at once. Her fingers clutched the back of his jacket. Aurora’s hand slipped under her jacket toward the weapon she always carried.Marcel voice came out hard. “Come out. Now.”An older man stepped from the shadows near the desk. His hair was gray at the temples. His face carried lines that had not been there the last time Marcel saw him. Marcel stared. “Elias Kane.”The man nodded once. “It has been a long time.”Marcel took a step forward. “You were supposed to be dead. They told us you died in the same attack that killed my father.”Elias held up both hands. “I survived because your father helped me escape before the men arrived. After that I had to disappear. Powerful people were hunting anyone connected to the Kane name.”Marcel shook his head. “You left us. You left a fourteen year old boy and a little girl with no one. You do not get to walk back in here and talk like you did the right thing.”E
The Kane File
Marcel held the photograph so tightly the edges bent. He looked up at Aurora, doubting the system for the first time "Tell me the truth. All of it. No more careful answers, I want to know and I want to know now."Aurora stood near the window with her arms crossed. "Your father was not just a victim. He was investigating the System long before you ever received it. Viktor worked with him for a time."Marcel voice dropped. "You knew this. You knew and you said nothing, I thought he had been killed by his creditors or something.""I kept quiet because the people who killed him may still be watching you. Telling you earlier would have put a target on your back sooner and plus Cain does want you to know.""Cain.? what has this got to do with him anyway?""You are not just unlucky Marcel" Aurora looked away, she stared out the window for a while "The system created you""I don't understand ""Everything that has happened so far was orchestrated by Cain. To break you". She paused to looked
The Kane File
Marcel gripped the phone so hard the plastic creaked. Worry was eating him alive, couldn't the system give a moment to breathe He had already called Lily back seven times. Each attempt went straight to voicemail. The car swerved through traffic as the driver pushed the speed limit. Marcel voice came out rough. "Faster. She... she is not answering."The driver nodded without looking back. "I am going as fast as I can, sir."Marcel hit redial again. Nothing. The strange System warning still hovered at the edge of his sight. {URGENCY !!} {EMERGENCY MISSION}{CAUTION}{THIS MISSION WAS NOT CREATED BY THE SYSTEM} He rubbed his eyes but the text stayed. "What the hell does this even me?"Did the system not want him to go further, was he not suppose to go find Lily Lily apartment building came into view. Marcel jumped out before the car fully stopped. He ran past the unconscious security guards lying on the ground outside. No blood. No broken windows. Just two grown men slumped like the
The Sound in the House
Lily pushed the front door open with her shoulder and locked it behind her twice. The therapy session had ended twenty minutes ago but the image of Drake falling with blood at his throat still sat behind her eyes. She dropped her bag on the floor and stood in the quiet hallway rubbing her arms. The house felt larger than it used to. Emptier too. She walked into the kitchen and filled a glass with water. Her hands shook enough that some spilled on the counter. She wiped it with her sleeve and sat down hard on a stool. "You are still my brother," she said out loud to the empty room. "You have to be. The same one who used to read me stories when the power went out. The same one who worked three jobs so I could stay in school." She drank half the glass and set it down. The memory of Marcel moving so fast and the knife sliding across Drake neck would not leave. She had seen the look on his face after. Not regret. Something colder. "What are you becoming?" she whispered. "Because I do
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