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Chapter 119
She didn’t know that far below, the danger was already circling someone he loved.In the abandoned sub-level, Korrin watched Mila’s routine play out on his cracked monitors…classes, training halls, the lunch atrium, her evening walk to the greenhouse deck.Predictable,innocent,isolated.He tapped the screen.The drones responded instantly, dispersing like dust into the Tower’s ventilation shafts.“She’s never alone,” Korrin murmured. “But she thinks she is.”He diluted a vial of misty blue toxin…non-lethal, but potent.A paralytic,fast-acting,silent.“It won’t kill her,” he whispered. “Just take her away.”He smiled, knowing Ethan would awaken into a world turned upside down.Back in the academy, Mila slid into her training seat just as Master Rowan entered. She let out a relieved breath and tucked a loose strand of hair behind her ear.Something shimmered above the lights,something small,silent.It descended,so quietly she didn’t hear it land on her collar.A micro-drone.A needle, t
Chapter 118
Korrin watched from the cracked windows of the abandoned sub-level lab,his new hideout, a forgotten wing of Braxton Tower sealed off after an old reactor leak. The radiation was long gone, but the air still tasted metallic, poisonous in a way that made him feel alive.His last attempt to poison Ethan had failed,Leanna had been faster than he expected. The Council had become suspicious,and Ethan… Ethan was waking.Korrin’s jaw tightened at the thought.He paced slowly, fingers trailing across dusty control panels as he replayed all the moments Ethan had slipped from his grasp like smoke.Not again. This time, he wouldn’t touch Ethan directly. That approach clearly wasn’t working.He needed leverage,he needed pain that struck deeper than any blade.A small holo-screen flickered to life in front of him, displaying dozens of surveillance feeds pulled illegally from Braxton Tower’s internal system.Then he saw her A soft knock had been recorded outside Ethan’s recovery room,the same girl
Chapter 117
Braxton City slept under a cold, pale moon,but beneath that quiet sky, the city’s shadows were alive…moving, shifting, whispering danger.In those shadows…Korrin made his move.He knew Ethan was protected by layers of guards and reinforced security. Leanna had made sure of that,but a city was more fragile than its walls. Break the right piece, and everything collapsed.And Korrin knew the exact piece.The Braxton Water Regulation Hub.A small, forgotten building that filtered and delivered clean water to a third of the city,including the tower’s medical wing.If he contaminated it with the right compound… panic would spread. Systems would weaken. Guards would be reassigned. Chaos would follow.Chaos he could use.Korrin crouched near a side entrance, wearing an engineer’s uniform he’d stolen. He picked the old lock with quick, practiced movements.Click.He stepped inside.The small facility was nearly empty,only a faint hum of machines and blinking lights. Perfect.Korrin pulled out a
Chapter 116
Korrin ran through the lower sectors of Braxton City, slipping into alleys and service tunnels where the lights flickered and the air smelled of dust and metal. Sirens flashed in the distance…his name already being hunted through every channel.He knew this part of the city better than anyone,he had once patrolled these streets as a loyal enforcer, but now he crept through them as a fugitive.He stopped only when he reached a locked gate hidden behind a rusted vent panel.His shaking hands pulled it free, and he crawled inside the narrow tunnel,darkness swallowing him almost immediately.Only then did he breathe.His voice echoed faintly in the metal chamber.“She won’t stop, will she? That woman…”Leanna’s face burned in his mind…cold eyes, fierce voice, unmovable presence.He had underestimated her.He had assumed she was just Ethan’s protector.But she had become something far more dangerous.“She wants war,” Korrin muttered.“So she’ll get war.”He crawled deeper until the tunnel
Chapter 115
The hallway outside Ethan’s room was chaos…guards shouting, nurses trembling, red alarms still flashing in sharp pulses. Leanna pushed through them like a blade cutting water, her steps fast, focused, dangerous.She didn’t ask permission,she didn’t pause.She burst into Ethan’s room,and what she saw made her blood freeze.The nurse…shaken, clutching her throat,leaned against the wall as two medics checked her vitals. Equipment around Ethan had been disturbed, the oxygen settings slightly off, one monitor shifted, a chair overturned.A struggle,an attempted murder.Again.Leanna’s breath trembled once, then steadied into something far colder.“Where is he?” she demanded.The nurse pointed shakily toward the exit. “He… he ran…down the service stairwell. I couldn’t stop him.”Leanna’s eyes narrowed, jaw tightening.“He won’t get far.”She turned sharply…ready to hunt Korrin herself,but a guard stepped in her path.“Ma’am…..you can’t leave this floor. The council requested your presence.”
Chapter 114
Braxton Tower had grown quieter since Ethan’s collapse,the halls were guarded, doors double-checked, and every shift change observed with strict eyes,yet for someone like Korrin..patient, calculating, and venomous,silence was not a barrier. It was an opportunity.The council had been forced to suspend him from all reconstruction duties pending investigation, but that only fueled his rage.He’d spent years crafting influence, building shadows around himself. And now? One boy…one,threatened it all.Tonight, he decided, the threat would end.It was near midnight when Korrin slipped into the restricted medical wing.He wore a maintenance uniform, cap lowered, steps measured,the guards at the far end were bored, exhausted, and more concerned with their coffee than anything else.Inside Ethan’s room, the lights were dimmed to a soft orange,machines hummed a steady rhythm..Ethan’s pulse, his breathing, the steady drip of his IV.He looked peaceful,too peaceful, Korrin thought.Tragedy should
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