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CHAPTER 7: Beneath the Mask

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Elias’s POV

The room was too quiet.

Even with the hum of the ventilation system and the faint flicker of light from the digital clock, the silence pressed in like a weight. I sat on the edge of the bunk, elbows on my knees, staring at the metal floor until the numbers on the clock blurred.

22:47.

Ronan’s voice still echoed in my head.

“If you’re going to lie, do it better.”

It hadn’t been loud, but it hit harder than a punch. The kind of words that stayed, even after the person was gone.

He’d known something. Not what, not completely, but enough to see that I wasn’t what I claimed to be.

That meant I’d slipped again.

My hand brushed the collar at my throat — the faint, silent hum steady against my pulse. It was still active, still suppressing the chemical signatures in my blood. But suppression didn’t equal erasure. And Ronan’s sense of smell wasn’t normal.

Neither was his focus.

He didn’t just watch people. He read them, the same way predators read fear. And now, I was in his sights.
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