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Glass Shatters

作者: Phylicia Ines
last update 最終更新日: 2025-09-04 10:41:10

The penthouse clinic lights hummed, sterile and steady. Wren sat cross-legged on the exam table, sketching in the corner of her paper with a green crayon. Liora hovered, arms crossed, nerves tightly wound.

Varian stood at the window, speaking low into his phone. Bram paced the hall just outside.

Then—

CRACK.

The world detonated. Glass burst inward, shards spinning like razors. The overhead lights flickered, alarms shrieked.

“Down!” Varian’s roar split the chaos.

Bram was already moving, slamming into Liora’s side and dragging her behind an overturned gurney.

“Wren!” Liora screamed.

Varian was faster. He lunged, sweeping Wren off the table and under the heavy steel bedframe. Another shot punched the wall above his head, splintering tile.

“Stay down!” Varian pressed her small body against his chest, his arm a wall around her.

Wren whimpered, clutching his jacket. “Mama—”

“She’s safe,” he rasped, breath hot against her hair. “I’ve got you.”

Smoke grenades hissed in the corridor. The alar
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  • Blood Ties And Silk Chains   The Extraction

    The ductwork rattled with every cough of machinery, every bullet snapping below. Liora dragged Wren against her chest, her arms shaking with the weight and the panic. She was almost to the next grate when something clamped around her ankle.Fingers.A hand, iron-strong, yanked her back into the darkness.“No—!” The scream ripped out of her throat before she could stop it. She kicked, twisted, and slammed her heel into knuckles, but the grip only tightened, dragging her backwards down the duct. Wren whimpered, clutching at her neck.The guard’s breath hissed. “Got you—”She didn’t think. She snapped down, teeth bared, and bit into the hand. Salt and blood exploded on her tongue. The man cursed, the grip loosening just enough. Liora wrenched her leg free and shoved forward, elbows hammering against the steel, dragging Wren with her.“Liora!” Varian’s voice roared through the comm, sharp enough to split her panic. “Report!”“I’ve got her,” she gasped, half-sobbing, half-furious. “We’re m

  • Blood Ties And Silk Chains   Through Fire And Brimstone

    The hum deepened into a growl, reverberating through the hollow bones of The Glassworks. Metal ribs overhead shuddered like a dying animal, and the red strobes bled across the factory walls faster now, painting everything in frantic slices of color. Their shadows fractured, stretched, and vanished again with every pulse.The voice on the speakers had gone silent, replaced by the rising whine of machinery—a pitch climbing with mechanical inevitability. A timer, Liora realized. Not just an alarm. Something winding tighter with every second. Something winding toward detonation.“Charges,” Bram barked, slamming the butt of his rifle against a girder. His words came out clipped, urgent. “They wired the whole place.”“Then we’re on a clock,” Varian answered. His tone was flat, calm to the point of deadly, but his eyes betrayed him—sharp and sweeping, calculating exits, measuring threats, cataloging every steel beam and catwalk. And then, finally, they landed on the trembling child strapped

  • Blood Ties And Silk Chains   The Rescue

    The warehouse district was a graveyard of steel and shadows, half-drowned in fog. The car rolled to a stop two blocks short of The Glassworks, its windows shrouded in grime, its hollow belly once alive with molten fire. Now, it pulsed faintly with a rhythm—red light strobing against the mist, reflecting off puddles like blood.Liora gripped the door handle before the engine died. “I’m going.”“No.” Varian didn’t even look at her. He was already sliding a magazine into his weapon with a snap too sharp to argue against. “You stay here. Bram and I clear.”Her jaw locked. “You’re not leaving me behind. She’s my daughter.”“She’s my responsibility,” he shot back. The words came like a blade, deliberate, meant to wound.Liora recoiled, then shoved forward, heat rising to her face. “You don’t get to own her. Or me.”Finally, his eyes cut to hers—dark, volatile, the storm she’d been circling for weeks. “You think this is a debate? It’s war. And in war, liability gets people killed.”Her hands

  • Blood Ties And Silk Chains   The Quiet War

    The city outside hummed with unnatural quiet. The air was heavy, a silence that came not from peace but from fear, the kind of silence that grew when people knew something was wrong but couldn’t put it into words.Inside the penthouse, Varian’s war room stretched like the brain of a machine—screens, maps, red pins crawling across districts, silent operators taking calls in clipped bursts.But there were no headlines. No reporters on the trail, no police briefings. The chaos was being scrubbed from the surface, every ripple drowned beneath steel.Varian made sure of it.“No press, no leaks,” he said, pacing behind the long table where Ines sat with her laptop. “Not a whisper. They get their headlines, we lose the shadow. We can’t afford that.”Liora, arms wrapped around Wren’s blanket, spoke for the first time in an hour. “So you just bury it? A child stolen out of a hospital, and the city acts like it never happened?”“Yes.” Varian’s tone left no margin.Her voice sharpened. “She isn’

  • Blood Ties And Silk Chains   The Cage Tightens

    The penthouse windows glowed faint with the reflected chaos of a city that had just been throttled. Bridges sealed. Checkpoints bristling. Drones carving lines across the sky. River traffic at a standstill, boats pulled to shore under Varian’s orders. The city breathed under his hand now, every artery clamped.Liora stood by the glass, pale and trembling. “You locked down the entire city?”Varian didn’t look up from the satellite feed spread across his table. His jaw worked, a tic of muscle in his temple. “Not the entire city. Just the parts they can escape through.”“Which is all of it.”He flicked a finger, sending another set of icons red. “Then you understand why I had no choice.”She turned on him, eyes rimmed from smoke and tears. “She’s not a shipment, Varian. You don’t get to blockade a city like you’re choking a vein.”“I get to do whatever it takes,” he said flatly. “Because they touched her.”Ines entered without knocking, her phone in hand. Her heels clicked sharp, impatie

  • Blood Ties And Silk Chains   The Vanishing

    The clinic’s waiting area hummed with its usual low rhythm: the shuffle of papers, the muted ring of phones, and the sigh of patients sitting with their worries. Wren had been coloring quietly at the little children’s table, her head bent, her hand gripping a crayon as if the world depended on filling in every corner.Then the alarm shrieked.Red lights strobed across the ceiling. A siren wailed, jagged and relentless.“Attention. Fire alarm activated. Please evacuate the building immediately,” the intercom blared.Smoke began to curl from the vents—thin, artificial, chemical-scented.Liora jumped to her feet, clutching Wren’s small backpack, eyes wide. “What—”Bram was already moving. “This isn’t a standard drill.” He scanned the exits, his hand drifting near the concealed weapon at his side.Varian didn’t move at all. His gaze flicked once to the smoke, then to the panicked staff lingfunnelling people toward the main exit. His face emptied, the mask snapping down—calm, unreadable, t

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