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CHAPTER 681
She was clawing at the gurney restraints, icy blue eyes wide with manic, trapped-animal terror. She saw Tedmond and saw the silhouette of a man who looked hauntingly like the woman she’d been imprisoned beside, and her mouth opened in a silent scream."Hugo—the code!" Tedmond roared, the sweet gas beginning to blur the edges of his vision."I’m trying! The terminal’s slaved to the Spire!" Hugo’s fingers flew across the keypad, bruises dark under the flashing emergency strobes. "They’ve locked the local override!""Thomas! Albert!" Lottie shouted into her comms, her knees dipping as the gas thickened. "We’re at the door! Sorsha has the lockout!""Working on it," Albert’s growl came back, faint but steady. "Clara has a biometric bypass. If you can get her to touch the glass from the inside, the pressure sensor might trip the emergency release."Tedmond’s gaze snapped back to Clara.She was panicking.And they had less than three minutes.Clara’s fingers were bloody from clawing at the
CHAPTER 680
At that moment, the door in front of them hissed open as the bio-key finally overrode the Syndicate locks.They didn’t step into an empty corridor. They walked straight into a security staging area.Three guards, caught mid-preparation for the purge, spun toward them.Their eyes widened at the sight of the mud-caked, blood-streaked trio emerging from the maintenance tunnel."Intruders!" one shouted, reaching for a shock baton.Tedmond didn’t hesitate.The frustration of the false lead and the lingering sting of that shattered heartbeat condensed into lethal precision. He moved like a shadow snapping into form, closing the distance before the guard could lift his weapon. He seized the man’s wrist and twisted hard.Bone popped.Tedmond pivoted, dragging the collapsing guard into his chest and using him as a shield just as the second man fired a stun gun. Blue current crackled uselessly into the human barricade.Lottie flowed at his flank, her submachine gun barking in tight, controlle
CHAPTER 679
"You were always slow!" Sorsha hissed, stepping into Lottie’s guard to deliver a flurry of precise, agonizing cuts."I was never slow," Lottie gasped, catching Sorsha’s wrist mid-air. The sisters rolled in the muck, a chaotic tangle of black tactical gear and silver hair. "I just didn’t want to hurt you! But that girl is dead, Sorsha!"Lottie slammed her forehead into Sorsha’s nose. There was a sickening crack. Sorsha recoiled, blood, vivid and dark, smearing her porcelain face. For a fleeting moment, the goddess looked human."You… little… brat!" Sorsha snarled, reaching for Lottie’s throat.Tedmond moved to intervene, but a spray of suppressive fire from the treeline forced him low, shielding Molly. Vanguard reinforcements arrived. "Lottie! The pipe! We’re out of time!"Lottie didn’t back down. She landed a heavy, mud-slicked punch across Sorsha’s jaw, sending her sister sliding backward toward the edge of the ravine. Lottie stood her ground, chest heaving, her amethyst eyes
CHAPTER 678
The air in the clearing was thick, not just with the scent of wet pine and drifting smoke, but with a suffocating history. Lottie’s hands, usually steady when survival stripped her bare, began to tremble. It wasn’t the cold. It was the way Sorsha looked at her with that same mocking, older-sister pity that had shadowed Lottie’s entire childhood.Sorsha took a slow, predatory step forward, the muzzle of her sniper rifle unwavering from Tedmond’s chest, yet her eyes never left Lottie."Look at you, Lottie," Sorsha purred, her voice silk over a razor. "Shaking. Covered in mud. Playing soldier for a man who doesn’t even know your middle name. Do you really think this makes you ‘brave’? You’re just a runaway pretending the leash isn’t still there.""Shut up, Sorsha," Lottie hissed, but the crack in her voice betrayed her."I’m the only one who ever looked out for you," Sorsha continued, her amethyst eyes softening into a poisonous, fake warmth. "When you failed the initiation at the Aca
CHAPTER 677
Tedmond spun, his suppressed pistol rising in a blurred arc. Out of the darkness, Molly Webb emerged, her clothes torn, her face a mask of frantic terror. She froze, staring at the two armed strangers.Her gaze locked onto Tedmond’s, and for a heartbeat, the fear seemed to melt into a profound, shimmering shock. She staggered a step forward, breath catching in her throat.Her eyes traveled over the sharp line of his jaw, the intensity of his gaze, and the quiet, iron-willed strength in his posture."Oh," she whispered, voice trembling with more than just fear. "You look… you look just like her. The eyes. The way you carry the world on your shoulders."She lifted a hand, almost brushing his sleeve, then pulled it back as if he were a mirage."Are you with the woman? The one who stayed behind? The one who told me my life mattered as much as hers?"Tedmond felt a rare, sharp ache in his chest, a sudden, piercing connection to the mother he was so close to losing. "I’m her son," he sai
CHAPTER 676
"They’re moving the Anchor," Tedmond hissed. "If that van leaves, we lose the only link to where they’ve hidden my mother."Marek glanced from the van to the gate. "We can’t do both, Boss. Hit the van, we lose the purge inside. Hit the gate, the van disappears into the Syndicate’s black-site network forever."Tedmond stared at the screen, the weight of the Washington legacy pressing down on him. The siren continued to wail, a countdown to a massacre."We aren’t choosing," Tedmond said, eyes burning with terrifying clarity. "Marek, take the heavy rifle. Blow the tires on that van from here. Lottie, follow me. We’re going over the fence."The siren’s wail grew sharper, a jagged strobe of sound marking the final stages of the Oakhaven purge. Below them, the facility churned like a hive of panicked motion."Distance to the transport van: eight hundred yards," Marek whispered, dropping onto one knee and unfolding the bipod of his heavy anti-materiel rifle. The weapon looked more like i
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