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CHAPTER 23 — POINT OF NO RETURN
The jet’s cabin lights dimmed as the aircraft leveled off over the Atlantic. Liam sat strapped into a medical seat, chest wrapped, IV secured to his arm.His laptop glowed on the tray table in front of him finally retrieved, finally his again. Ivy paced the narrow aisle. “Vitals?”Elias glanced at the monitor. “Stable. For now.”Avery sat opposite Liam, hands clenched together, eyes fixed on the floor. She hadn’t spoken since takeoff. Liam broke the silence. “São Paulo.”Elias nodded. “The test site was a private biotech subsidiary front company. Within forty minutes, the lattice destabilized.”Avery looked up sharply. “Destabilized how?”Liam’s fingers moved across the keyboard. “Cellular acceleration beyond safe thresholds. Tissue regeneration turned malignant.”Ivy swallowed. “Casualties?”Elias hesitated. “Officially, a chemical leak. Unofficially… twelve dead.”Avery pressed a hand to her mouth.Liam didn’t stop typing. “That’s Phase One.”A cold silence followed. Ivy snapped, “Y
CHAPTER 22 — BLEEDING POINT
The first thing Liam felt was pain. Not sharp everywhere. A crushing, suffocating pressure that wrapped his ribs and crawled up his spine like fire. “Don’t move, don’t you dare move.”Avery’s voice. Close. Broken. Liam tried to open his eyes. Failed. “Stay with me,” she begged. “Please. Please.”Someone else said, “He’s lost a lot of blood.”Elias. Another voice female, clipped, professional. “Get the pressure higher. If that blade nicked the lung”“I didn’t mean for this to happen,” Avery sobbed. “I swear I didn’t.”Liam forced air into his lungs. It burned. “Liam?” Ivy’s voice trembled. “Can you hear me?”He managed a sound. Something between a groan and a breath. “Yes,” the medic said. “He’s conscious. Barely.”Avery’s hands were shaking against his chest. “I’m here. I’m right here.”Liam’s lips moved. No sound came out. “Don’t talk,” Ivy snapped sharply. “Save your strength.”Liam didn’t listen. “You… chose…” he rasped.Avery flinched like he’d struck her. “I was trying to save yo
CHAPTER 21 — WING C
The ladder shuddered under Liam’s weight as he climbed. Metal rungs bit into his palms. Above him, emergency lights pulsed red through a narrow grill.Ivy climbed behind him. Elias took the rear. No one spoke. The alarms soared higher. Liam pushed the hatch open and rolled onto the cold tile floor of Wing C.White corridor. Frosted glass walls. Rows of secured labs humming with restrained power. Elias whispered, “This wing is biometric-restricted.”Liam already knew. “Avery bypassed it before.”Ivy whispered sharply, “You’re still assuming”The sound of footsteps echoed from the far end of the hall. Running. Multiple. Liam grabbed Ivy, yanking her into a recessed doorway as three armed guards sprinted past. Elias exhaled slowly. “They’re sweeping.”Liam’s eyes lifted to the lab markings. C-17… C-18… C-19His chest tightened. He pointed to the glass door at the far end. “That’s her department.”Ivy grabbed his sleeve. “Liam, listen to me. Whatever you think you saw in those logs”“Stop
CHAPTER 20 — THE EXIT PROTOCOL
The hallway outside the containment room buzzed with fluorescent lights and low, mechanical hums. Cold. Industrial. A labyrinth of steel doors and encrypted panels.Liam walked ahead of Ivy and Elias, shoulders stiff, muscles coiled tight. Every step carried an edge anger sharpening him, betrayal fueling him.Elias tapped a code into a sealed door. “We move quickly. Once the internal sensors recognize Liam’s biometrics, certain teams will be notified.”Liam didn’t slow. “Which teams?”“The wrong ones,” Elias said. “We have eight minutes before they’re on us.”Ivy hurried to keep up. “Liam, stay between us. If they’re tracking your heat signature”“Let them track me,” Liam said coldly. “I’m done hiding.”Ivy swallowed. “You don’t understand. They want you alive.”Liam finally turned his head, expression razor-sharp. “Why?”Elias answered for her. “Because you’re the only one who can stabilize the prototype.”Liam froze mid-step. He turned fully now, eyes drilling into both of them. “Wh
CHAPTER 18 — THE SHATTERING
The night wind pushed against the broken windows of Avery’s loft, carrying the faint hum of distant sirens. Liam barely noticed.He was pacing, jaw clenched, replaying the scene with Cole, the stolen data, the threat, Avery’s pained silence everything.Avery sat on the couch, elbows on her knees, hair falling over her face. “Liam,” she said quietly, “you need to stop pacing.”“I can’t.” He swung around. “Your sister’s husband just tried to kill me. You expect me to sit still?”“He wasn’t trying to kill you,” Avery muttered.“Are you joking?” Liam snapped. “He pushed me in front of a moving SUV.”Avery’s gaze flicked up. “He warned you first.”“That doesn’t make it better!”Silence stretched. Then Avery said something he didn’t expect: “Liam… I think Cole was trying to scare you off. Not because of the invention because of Ivy.”Liam froze. “What?”Avery exhaled shakily. “Ivy called Cole from London two hours ago. She asked him to ‘keep you away’ from Voltis Labs until she can return.”
CHAPTER 19 — THE WOMAN IN THE GLASS ROOM
A cold drip echoed somewhere above him. Liam’s eyelids fluttered. His body felt like it was made of wet sand heavy, unresponsive, numb at the edges. His mind surfaced through static.“Easy,” a voice murmured from somewhere behind him. “The sedative wears off unevenly. You’ll feel sick.”He jerked awake only to find leather straps biting into his wrists. A metal table. Dim ceiling lights. And a glass wall overlooking him like a lab specimen. Liam’s heart slammed against his ribs. “Where the hell”“You’re safe,” the voice said.He turned sharply. A figure stood behind the glass partition. Shadowed. Still. Watching him with unreadable calm. Liam’s pulse spiked. “Show yourself.”The lights behind the glass flicked on with a hum. She stepped forward. Elegant black coat. Hair pulled back. Eyes sharp with a mix of exhaustion and fury.Ivy. Liam’s breath choked in his throat. “You.”Ivy’s expression flickered pain? guilt? He couldn’t tell. “Liam… you weren’t supposed to wake up yet.”“You dru
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