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Chapter Thirteen: The Child Without a Name
Location: Black Tower – Private Tribunal Room, 10:33 A.M... The chamber was cold. Silent. Armored with more encryption than any war bunker, At the center: a round table.Lucas sat at one end, Helena at the other. Between them stood Derek Morrow, hands cuffed, face bloodied, expression torn between defiance and shame, Monica and Rachel flanked the perimeter, eyes burning holes into him, Lucas broke the silence. “Tell me why.”Derek didn’t blink. “I believed you’d destroy her. I thought… if I gave the Council a little piece of you, they’d stop coming.”Helena’s voice was barely above a whisper. “And when they came for my son?”“I didn’t know,” Derek said. “By then, it was too late. Sable told me you’d be spared. That the child wasn’t part of the deal.”Rachel spat. “You trusted Sable?”Derek locked eyes with Lucas. “I trusted fear. And fear eats men alive.”Helena turned to Lucas, Her voice was cold now. “This is your tribunal. Your child. Your call.”Lucas rose slowly, Walked over to D
Chapter Twelve: Judas at the Table
Location: Black Tower – 5:18 A.M... The tower was still, Smoke cleared from its hallways. Broken glass reflected the rising sun.But inside Helena’s private chamber, stillness was an illusion, She stood alone, in front of a wall-sized screen. Twelve profiles glowed in front of her.Her senior command. Every executive, strategist, and adviser she'd trusted across five years of rebuilding. One of them… was a mole. Rachel’s last whisper replayed in her head: “Someone close to you… is feeding the Council.”Helena’s eyes burned, And her hunt had begun, In his temporary office on the Tower’s fortified 60th floor, Lucas stared at the file he'd received: OFFER_OF_SEAT_09.docInside: a contract.Encrypted.Signed by the Council’s dead chairman.Offering Lucas a seat among them, conditional upon one thing: “Abandon your public crusade. Pledge your heir to the Council.”The signature at the bottom?Leary, Dated two months ago, Before Lucas had even made his first move. Which meant, They’d expect
Chapter Eleven: Broadcast the Bloodline
Location: Black Tower – Executive Medical Wing, 10:42 A.M.Rachel lay unconscious in a sterile room, connected to machines keeping her alive, Helena sat silently outside, a trembling mug of untouched coffee in her hands. Lucas stood at the window, holding his son in one arm, the other bloodied and stitched.“She saved him,” Helena whispered.Lucas nodded. “She didn’t have to.”The infant stirred, yawned, and clutched at Lucas’s jacket, That tiny gesture shattered something inside him. He’d won. But the cost still bled around him. He turned to Monica Vale. “Is it ready?”Monica didn’t ask for clarification. She just said, “Yes.”For ten years, Lucas Sebastian built his empire in shadows, Now, he was done hiding. At 11:00 A.M. sharp, every major global media outlet, social feed, encrypted server, and broadcast terminal was hijacked.The screens flickered. And then Lucas appeared. Blood still on his collar. Cradling his son, His voice was low. Firm. Controlled rage wrapped in calm. “This
Chapter Ten: The Threshold of Fire
Location: Black Tower – Floor 38 (Nursery Wing Perimeter) Time: 8:58 A.M.The floor shuddered, Alarms shrieked, Lucas stood at the edge of a hallway lit in red, behind him, bodies and fire. Before him, Agent Leary and his kill team of ten operatives in armored vests.Lucas had one pistol. And a blade, And no margin for error. “You look tired,” Leary said, spinning Rachel’s bloodstained ID card between his fingers. “Still think you’re walking out of here?”Lucas stared at the card, Every breath tightened in his lungs, Every second, his heart pounded, and with it, the biometric tether inching toward detonation. He knew if he collapsed… His son died, So he smiled, Just a little. “I'm not walking out,” Lucas said.“I’m burning through.”Before Leary could react, Lucas threw the blade, It sank into the neck of the closest soldier, a scream, blood spraying. Then Lucas charged.He dove behind a security desk, rolled beneath gunfire, disarmed the nearest agent with a brutal knee to the throat
Chapter Nine: The Descent
Location: Black Tower – Elevator Shaft, Floor 72 → 36... Lucas adjusted his grip on the twin pistols, breathing evenly as the elevator descended.His reflection in the mirror panel barely looked human, blood drying on his collar, a fresh cut above his brow, eyes burning with vengeance, He tapped his earpiece. “Monica, what’s the situation below?”Static. Then her voice came through, distorted: “They’ve jammed floor comms. We’re blind from 65 down. Be advised, your kill-switch has been linked to the child’s biometric tag. If your vitals flatline… he dies.”Lucas didn’t blink. “Understood.”The elevator stopped at Floor 65, Ding, The doors slid open, Smoke. Screams. Gunfire, Lucas stepped out and unleashed hell.This floor had once been the Innovation Division, whiteboards, prototypes, AI labs, Now, it was a warzone. Lucas ducked beneath a flying chair, taking down a rogue exec with a round to the shoulder, another to the knee.Two masked agents moved in with knives, fast, silent, letha
Chapter Eight: The Collapse Protocol
Location: Black Tower – 7:46 A.M... The skyline looked calm, Glass towers glittered beneath the early sun. Traffic moved in rhythm. But inside the Black Tower, chaos was brewing, a perfect storm designed by ghosts in silk gloves.Lucas stepped out of the armored elevator, his son asleep in his arms, Helena beside him. They’d flown back from the Arclight Wastes hours ago, avoiding all public channels, evading all digital traces.But even the air inside the tower felt… wrong, Too still, Too quiet. Then came the first whisper from Monica Vale, head of internal strategy: “Sir… you’re locked out of your own building.”Lucas handed the baby to Helena and rushed to the Vault Core. Screens blinked with corrupted code, Every floor from 12 to 38 was now under external command override.The mainframe had been breached. “I want emergency containment protocols activated!” Lucas snapped.But Monica looked pale. “They were wiped from the system. Someone used your personal access key.”Lucas froze. “
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