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CHAPTER 15

Auteur: JJ.Smart
last update Date de publication: 2026-03-16 04:29:14

Geneva was cold and clean and looked nothing like the kind of city that held what the facility below it held.

We had thirty-six hours before Holt's arrival.

We used twenty-four of them.

Petra and Jules had the vehicles in position. Ren had taken the Zurich train to Geneva the night before and was holding the observation post on the facility's approach road — a café within sightline of the underground entrance, eating pastries and sending updates every forty minutes.

My father handled the final
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    Amsterdam was cold and wet and the buyer turned out to be two buyers, which Tobias had not anticipated and Renna, who materialized at the hotel the night before the operation with no explanation for where she had been for eight weeks, had apparently known."Two separate organizations," she said, spreading her own intel across the table in my father's hotel room. "The first is a political lobbying group out of Brussels that has been using supernatural consultants for three years. Low-level. They want Lures as influence tools for European Parliament positioning." She paused. "The second is more concerning.""How much more," Karl said."They've been active longer than Holt. Quieter. No central figure — it's a distributed network, which makes it harder to dismantle." She looked at me. "They specifically want high-range Lures. The database is a shopping list for them. You are at the top of it."I let that land."And Marco," Adrian said from the corner."Marco doesn't know who he's selling

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    The new university was in Seattle and I registered in November for the January term.Mara, three weeks after our coffee in Auckland, had also enrolled — different university, same city, a coincidence that was not entirely a coincidence since Sylvie had flagged Seattle as a preferred location for the coalition's Pacific Northwest advisory work.She texted me the day her registration confirmed: neighbor apparently. don't make it weird.I texted back: too late, I already told Karl.She sent a single line: the Were with the stare.I showed Karl. He looked at his phone, then at me."The stare," he said."It's a compliment," I said. "From Mara, that's high praise."He considered this. "Fine."We found an apartment three blocks from campus. Second floor, two bedrooms, a kitchen that was larger than it needed to be for two people but which Karl immediately claimed as primary territory, which was fine because he cooked with the same precision he applied to everything else and the results were

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