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Chapter 26:The woman in the photograph
Author: Emma Writes
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The photo wouldn’t leave his mind.

Even after the rain cleared, even after he buried himself in work, it followed him — a ghost burned onto the inside of his eyes.

She looked the same.Same bone structure. Same eyes. Same faint scar near her jaw — the one he remembered tracing as a child when she used to read to him. But that was impossible. Evelyn Veyne had died fifteen years ago. He’d seen the coffin. He’d watched the dirt swallow her name.

And yet, the woman in the picture wasn’t a memory. She was moving. Breathing. Hiding.

**

The next morning, Archer Tower hummed with quiet panic. News had leaked that several high-value research patents under Archer Biotech had been accessed from an off-grid location.

No traceable signal. No money trail. Just a ghost in the system.

Varis followed Ethan into the elevator, his voice low.

“We tracked the breach to a lab outside the city — old industrial zone near Lantyrn Bay. The coordinates match one of Evelyn’s old facilities.”

Ethan didn’t react, e
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