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CHAPTER 162: Ashes of the Father
The Romanov mansion's control room dimmed, bathed in the dull amber hue of emergency lights. Harper’s voice crackled over the loudspeakers as she patched into all sectors of the estate.“Enemy strike force confirmed. Approaching from all known sectors north, east, and the hidden creek path. Coordinated pattern. They’re not probing. They’re coming.”Aiden stood at the center, his silhouette cast against the main screen where Orlov’s face, twisted by age and vengeance, dominated the feed. The man who once tried to eradicate the Romanovs now marched beside Zain the traitorous blood who once swore loyalty as family.“They want to bury our name in the ashes of betrayal,” Aiden muttered. “But they’ve underestimated the fire they’ve just walked into.”Lorenzo entered, dressed in tactical armor, still regal despite the weight of the years.“They’ve surrounded the estate, but they don’t know we’re expecting them,” he said. “Let’s give them a welcome worthy of the Romanov legacy.”Silvana, stan
CHAPTER 161: When Shadows Rise
The night wind howled around the Romanov estate as Aiden stood atop the east tower, eyes locked on the blinking red dot Harper had just uncovered a pulsing signal embedded in Amelia’s jacket, cloaked beneath layers of decoy code.A beacon not for tracking her but to guide something or someone else in.“They were never trying to extract Amelia,” Harper said, running her fingers across the decrypted signal path. “They wanted her inside. This was their infiltration.”Silvana, now heavily pregnant and leaning against the reinforced balustrade, narrowed her gaze. “They used her as a live Trojan horse.”Gregory entered the rooftop war room with fresh satellite footage. “We’ve got movement. Six black SUVs, unmarked, parked on the south forest perimeter. No plates. Thermal scans show minimal body heat inside.”“Drones?” Aiden asked.“Already scrambled, but they’re jamming low-orbit signal bands. We’ll be flying blind for the next ten minutes unless Harper reroutes through the secondary relay.
CHAPTER 160: The Dagger’s Edge
The west tunnel was darker than Zia remembered.She crouched low behind the abandoned wine rack that once concealed Amelia’s favorite shortcut through the Romanov estate’s hidden crawlspaces. The humid air pressed against her skin, every breath a quiet prayer that her mother wouldn’t turn around too soon.Amelia moved with uncanny confidence like a ghost slipping through a home that had once adored her. She paused only to disable small sensors on the wall, swiping past them with the elegance of memory. She had once belonged here, and every nook and cranny still whispered her name.But Zia wasn’t that same scared little girl anymore.She had followed the trails, noticed the subtle movements of dust and displaced stones, connected the unspoken tension among the staff. And now, for the first time, she understood the game her mother had been playing since her return. “You think you’re still the queen of this place,” Zia murmured under her breath, “but not anymore.”Her communicator buzze
CHAPTER 159: Collateral Reign
The smoke curled through the halls of St. Aurelia’s like a serpent acrid, choking, and stinging the eyes. Alarms blared. Emergency sprinklers sprayed in vain, mixing ash and water into thick trails running down the marble floors. The students were being escorted out in a chaotic tide of panic and confusion, but Aiden Romanov moved with singular purpose.Silvana was in his arms, her face pale, her hands gripping tightly to her lower abdomen.“I’m fine,” she murmured.“You’re bleeding,” Aiden said, his voice raw, the weight of the moment threatening to crush him. “We’re not taking any chances. Not with you. Not with the baby.”Zia ran beside them, coughing, frightened but composed. “Is Mom… going to be okay?”“She will be,” Aiden promised, but his eyes betrayed fear.Outside, Harper’s armored vehicle screeched to a halt at the curb. Bryden, bruised and limping from his earlier override at the comm tower, helped usher them in.“Was that really a second wave?” Aiden asked as they secured
CHAPTER 158: Fire in the Cradle
The coordinates blinked ominously on the screen latitude and longitude embedded in red, a timer silently counting down. Zain stood motionless beside Orlov as the strike sequence was initialized."That’s Zia’s school, isn't it?" Orlov said with unsettling calm, sipping a drink made of something that looked and smelled toxic.Zain nodded once, jaw hard."You're really going through with this?" Orlov asked, watching Zain’s reaction. “A biochemical payload near civilian grounds? That girl has nothing to do with”"She has everything to do with it,” Zain cut in sharply. “She’s Aiden’s legacy. His soul. And I’m going to make sure he watches it shatter.”Orlov chuckled. “Cruel. I like it.”Across the dark comms room, the launch system began to hum. Micro-drone carriers, camouflaged in standard air traffic cloaks, were now en route. In exactly two hours, the drone swarm would reach the vicinity of St. Aurelia’s Academy for Gifted Youths Zia’s school. One of the few places she still felt safe.
CHAPTER 157: A Devil’s Bargain
The night air in Zain’s fallback bunker was sharp and metallic. Beneath the earth’s crust, where light didn’t reach and the walls felt like a tomb, the last fragments of his empire tried to hold form. Zain stood in front of the flickering holographic table, jaw locked, eyes scanning the tactical reports that streamed in from the activated Protocol Shadow units. Lines of red blips blinked and vanished. One by one. Base after base. Node after node. Failure. Again. “Shadow team Delta gone silent. No trace.” “Echo unit terminated on insertion. Mansion defenses were already primed, like they knew” Zain didn’t wait for the last operator’s full sentence. He slammed his fist into the control panel, and sparks shot out with a hiss. The holo-map glitched and dimmed. “They knew, damn it! They were waiting.” Harper. Silvana. Aiden. Somehow, they were always one step ahead. The Cold Units from Helsinki had been expected to sweep through Romanov’s last strongholds, cutting thro
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