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CHAPTER 670
Tedmond let out a dry, small chuckle, a sound that softened the edges of his grim face, though it didn’t quite reach his eyes. "I’ll be fine, Thomas. It was just a thought.""It was a stupid thought!" Thomas barked, jabbing a finger at him. "You listen to me, Tedmond. You go to Oakhaven, you find your mother, and you bring your narrow-minded, road-tripping self back here. Because when you do, I’m going to lecture you—seriously. I’ve got a list of every reason why you’re a tactical moron, and I’m reading it aloud."Tedmond gave a single, sharp nod, a silent promise. "I’ll look forward to it."He slid the door shut, the van rumbling forward into the gray rain, leaving Thomas standing in the garage with clenched fists and a storm of worry behind his eyes."You heard the man," Marek rumbled, shifting the van into gear. "He wants to lecture a live man, not a ghost. Let’s move."The tires crunched over wet gravel as the van slid into the thick morning mist. Thomas stayed in the garage lon
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Lottie spent the next few minutes firing off questions, the rapid-fire kind meant to probe, to trip a man’s resolve.She asked about temptation, the long nights on the road, the distance between them. Tedmond answered each one with a clinical, unwavering loyalty that bordered on the sacred. His responses weren’t rehearsed; they were facts, as immutable as the laws of physics.Finally, Lottie stopped. She leaned back, a genuine, softer smile touching her face. “Damn, Tedmond. Your wife sure struck gold. I’m actually looking forward to meeting her someday, just so I can tell her she picked the last honest man left on the planet.”Tedmond’s brow furrowed into a deep, protective frown. “You are not meeting my wife.”“Why not?” Lottie asked, hands sliding to her hips. “I think we’d get along—”“The car is ready!” Thomas’s voice boomed through the intercom, echoing from the basement and shattering the tension. “And if you aren’t down here in sixty seconds, I’m letting the tires out mysel
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Thomas stared at them, mouth hanging slightly open. “That is… that is the most strategically vacant reasoning I have ever heard in my professional life. ‘The ground feels honest’? ‘Enjoy the scenery’? You’re going into a Syndicate processing hub, not a Sunday picnic!”Thomas didn’t like what he was hearing. All he wanted to do was make the whole thing easy, and now Ma,rek and Lottie were trying to make it even harder.Tedmond didn’t laugh, but the corner of his eye twitched with the faintest shadow of a smile. He met Thomas’s gaze, the intensity of his stare anchoring the absurdity of the moment.“The air is monitored, Thomas,” Tedmond said evenly. “Every flight plan leaves a signature. But a car… a car is just one of ten thousand vehicles on the highway. We need to stay invisible, until the moment we choose not to be.”“Fine,” Thomas groaned, throwing his hands up. “Go ahead. Take the long way. Drive until your tires melt. I’ll stay here and try to keep the satellites from losing y
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The admission was more chilling than the anger.Thomas swallowed hard as he took in the shift in Tedmond. The desperation was gone, replaced by a cold, calculating resolve that felt far more dangerous.“Get inside,” Thomas muttered, stepping aside. “Albert’s been screaming at my monitors for the last hour. He found something in the Oakhaven intake logs… but he refuses to show it until you’re on the line.”Tedmond stepped into the warmth of the house, the smell of old wood and burnt coffee washing over him. He didn’t reach for a chair or a drink. He went straight to the monitors.“Albert,” Tedmond said evenly. “Tell me you have a visual on the woman they think is Molly Webb.”“I have something better, Master Tedmond,” Albert replied, his voice grim through the speakers. “I have the Oakhaven intake footage. But you need to see this. Someone else was waiting at the gate.”A pause.“Someone who didn’t care about her ID.”Tedmond leaned over the console, eyes narrowing as the grainy Oakh
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Hugo immediately held out his hand. “I—I was just trying to warm it up!” Hugo wailed, cowering as Marek loomed over him.Tedmond ignored the pathetic display, eyes fixed on the terminal Lottie had just bypassed.“Albert,” he snapped into his comms. “The image. Show me exactly who was loaded onto that medical shuttle.”“Uploading the freeze-frame from the sub-hangar camera now, Master Tedmond,” Albert replied.The screen flickered, then resolved into a grainy, high-contrast image. Two women were being hurried toward the shuttle by Enforcers. One wore the uniform of a Syndicate logistics officer… Molly Webb. The other wore a grey, nondescript shift, her face partially obscured by a fall of silver-blonde hair.Tedmond’s breath hitched. For a moment, his tactical shield nearly shattered. That hair.“Wait,” Lottie whispered, leaning closer. “Look at their wrists, Tedmond.”He saw it. In the chaos of the Scrub protocol, the Enforcers had been frantic. One woman had a yellow Asset band
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The others nodded in agreement.It was obvious he was being toyed with. At this point, Tedmond had no idea if his mother had ever truly been in the Heart. If she had, they would have found some trace of her, but there was nothing.Only the hollow mockery of an empty tower and a mannequin draped in the memory of a woman.He began to wonder if the Syndicate even knew where she was, or if she had been sent elsewhere, out of their hands entirely. Had they even known her real name? She wasn’t actually called Mill, that was a nickname he had adopted during the long, grueling years of the search, a word to anchor his hope.Then his eyes widened. He was making a mistake, a fundamental tactical error.She had lost her memory; she didn’t even know who she was.Even if the men knew he had come for her, there was no way they could identify her by name. She wouldn’t know she was a Washington, and she certainly couldn’t sign her name as one. To the world, and perhaps to herself, she was blank
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