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Chapter 183:the discovery
Silvana approached, placing her hand gently on his shoulder. “We’ll find them. But if you collapse from exhaustion, you won’t be there to protect any of us.”Before Aiden could reply, the sound of light footsteps echoed from the hallway. Zia appeared, skipping happily into the room. She was holding a small drawing—crayon lines in multiple colors. She came to stand beside Silvana, looking up at Aiden with innocent eyes.“Daddy,” Zia began, “when will my baby brother come out? I want to play with him and take him to school. I even made a picture for him.”Silvana’s lips curved into a warm smile, but Aiden felt something in his chest tighten. The innocence in Zia’s question was a stark reminder of the fragile life they were trying to build amid chaos. Silvana knelt to meet her stepdaughter’s eyes. “Soon, sweetheart. But for now, your brother is still growing, and he needs to be safe inside until he’s strong enough to come out.”Zia nodded seriously, then placed her drawing on Aiden’s des
Chapter 182– Shadows in the Bloodline
The rain had stopped hours ago, but the Romanov estate still smelled faintly of wet stone and pine. Aiden stood in the study, leaning against the mahogany desk, his gaze fixed on the old family crest carved into the wood. His thoughts were far from the room circling instead around the latest piece of information Lorenzo’s sources had brought in.A pattern.Not just a symbol.The same insignia of two intertwined serpents encircling a dagger had now been spotted at three different locations linked to Braise’s death: the bullet casing from the night of the shooting, the back of a ledger found in one of Zain’s abandoned safehouses, and most recently… etched onto the inner band of a signet ring retrieved from the city docks.“This isn’t random,” Aiden murmured, fingers tracing the grain of the desk. “This symbol it’s a signature. Someone wants us to know they were here.”Silvana, sitting across from him with a protective hand over her belly, gave a concerned look. “Or they want you to kno
Chapter 181: The Arrival
The walls of the Romanov estate trembled.Aiden stood still, eyes narrowed, listening. Each thud that echoed from the underground tunnels felt like a calculated strike measured, intentional, not like a breach, but a return. Something ancient had been awakened.Harper’s fingers flew over the estate’s biometric control panel. “It's bypassing our systems. Not breaking in… walking through. As if the house recognizes it.”“Identify it!” Aiden barked.“I—I can’t. Whatever it is, it’s not in our logs. Not even in the private genetic bank.”Another thud. Closer now.Gregory drew his weapon instinctively. Lorenzo, surprisingly composed, poured a glass of whiskey with trembling hands. “I prayed this day wouldn’t come.”“What is it?” Silvana asked. She was holding Zia close again, protective instinct overriding her discomfort. Her belly kicked gently, a reminder of life even as shadows surrounded them.Lorenzo turned slowly to face them.“Protocol M wasn’t just a failsafe to preserve the bloodli
Chapter 180: The Clockwork Whisper
The Romanov mansion was unusually still, but it wasn’t the quiet of peace it was the quiet before a storm. The symbol of the First Circle had embedded itself like a stain on the minds of everyone inside the estate. Each step Aiden took echoed like a ticking clock, a countdown to something he couldn’t yet see.In the underground tech chamber, Harper worked through the night, lines of code flashing across his monitor in frantic streams. His eyes were bloodshot, hands trembling slightly as he poured through the corrupted metadata from the First Circle’s broadcast.Then suddenly a ping.A hidden protocol embedded within the red-painted chess knight triggered Harper’s failsafe alert. It wasn’t just symbolic. It was a device.A list unfolded.Dozens of names.Each connected to the Romanovs… but not through business or politics.Bloodlines.Harper’s hand hovered over the intercom. “Aiden. You need to see this.”Within minutes, Aiden, Silvana, Lorenzo, and Gregory were assembled in the cham
Chapter 179: Whispers Beneath the Flame
The world was quiet, unnervingly so. As dawn broke over the Romanov estate, golden rays filtered through reinforced glass and cast a warm glow on the newly fortified compound. But Aiden Romanov knew peace like this was only a mirage,calm before a coming storm.The threat wasn’t external anymore. It was growing within.Romanov Estate : Sub-Level 9 (The Heart)Hidden deep beneath the estate was a vault known only to three people: Aiden, Lorenzo, and Harper.But now there was a fourth-Silvana.“I had to bring her,” Aiden said as the biometric locks disengaged with a low hiss. “She’s carrying him.”The vault opened, revealing a sanctum of Romanov knowledge and lost weaponry relics from the pre-Etherion War, forbidden blueprints, and experimental tech even Harper dared not touch.In the center stood The Flame Core, a construct built long ago by Aiden’s great-grandfather. It pulsed like a heartbeat, reacting only to Romanov DNA and now, it glowed brighter than ever before.“Ever since Zia s
Chapter 178: The Name That Burns
The rain had stopped, but the air remained heavy,thick with the scent of smoke and something ancient that had no name. Over the Romanov estate, silence settled like a blanket, but underneath that calm was tension as taut as a drawn bowstring.In the war room, everything had changed.“Solan.”Zia’s voice echoed in Aiden’s mind long after she’d spoken the name. He sat at the head of the table, his knuckles white as he gripped the arms of the chair. Around him, Harper, Bryden, Lorenzo, and Silvana stared at the glowing sigils that had just been projected from Harper’s portable analyzer.The name triggered seismic responses in their internal databases secrets once buried under code-red clearance now flashing red across every system.Solan: Designation Level X – Unidentified Entity. Timeline Linkage: Pre-Etherion War. DNA Signature: Part-Romanov. Part-Unknown. Threat Index: Evolving.Harper looked up. “This isn’t just some myth. The codex has been hiding records tied to Solan’s name encryp
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