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Chapter Eight

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Sera didn’t stop running until the alley turned to silence.

Lucien’s grip stayed tight on her wrist. Not possessive. Not even protective. Just desperate. Like if he let go, the truth might swallow them both.

They ducked into a nondescript black sedan idling on the far curb.

No driver.

Of course.

“Whose car is this?” Sera asked, breathless.

Lucien slid into the driver’s seat. “Mine. It doesn’t exist.”

“Like Elise?”

Lucien flinched. Just slightly.

Sera climbed in beside him, shaking. Blood still sang in her ears from the flashbang, and Elise’s voice still echoed like a crack in her skull.

“If you see me again, walk away.”

She didn’t. She couldn’t.

Not when her sister had looked at her like a stranger.

Not when Lucien had stolen her out of that room like she was his to take.

“You had no right to pull me out,” she said as the car peeled into traffic.

Lucien’s eyes stayed locked on the road. “And she had no right to use you as bait.”

“I was willing bait.”

“You were misinformed bait.”

“That
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  • Cold Hands, Warm Lies   Chapter Fifty Seven

    > Mumbai Broadcast Anchor: “In a stunning global reveal, Sera Duvall and Lucien Calder known previously for their controversial link to Amber’s design have launched the Phoenix Protocol, a decentralized, open-source intelligence platform intended to dismantle emotional surveillance as we know it…”> Berlin Network Analyst: “This is war. Against corporate sovereignty. Against psychological control…”> Citizen, New York: “Finally. Someone cracked the glass and let us see.”Screens burned with new fire.Sera Duvall was no longer a mystery. She was a movement.Amber HQ – War Room – 06:03 ESTLucien stood by the glass wall, backlit by static screens as Amber’s global pulse flashed erratically. Sera paced across the room, pacing like she was wired to fire.> Lucien: “We’ve lost six board seats already. Half the world’s calling us traitors. The other half? Revolutionaries.”> Sera: “Let them decide. We’ve already made our choice.”> Ava (typing fast): “We’ve had over 3.2 million Phoenix Prot

  • Cold Hands, Warm Lies   Chapter Fifty Six

    > Ava (over comms): “The file Elise left it's geo-tagged to a location in Manhattan. Midtown. Off-grid.”> Sera: “She’s pulling us back to where it began.”Lucien’s jaw flexed. Snow still clung to his coat, but his eyes burned.> Lucien: “She wants us in the open.”> Ava: “Then let’s not come quietly.”Amber Jet – En Route to Manhattan – 14:03 ESTThe hum of the engines faded beneath the tension in the cabin.Sera sat across from Lucien, elbows on her knees, fingers laced tightly.> Lucien: “You don’t have to go. I can take Ava ”> Sera (cutting): “If she’s there, I’m walking through that door first.”He didn’t argue. He never did when she was like this ice over fire, unstoppable.> Lucien: “I keep thinking about that message. The way she said it. ‘You chose love. I choose peace.’ It sounded... final.”> Sera: “Elise doesn’t do final. She does calculated.”> Lucien: “You think she’s baiting us again?”> Sera: “I think she’s giving me a chance to bury the rest of her. Or resurrect it.”

  • Cold Hands, Warm Lies   Chapter Fifty Five

    > Ava (over comms): “We’re ten minutes out. Temp’s already dropped below -30. You sure you want boots on the ice?”> Sera (flat): “She wants us to follow. We follow.”> Lucien (cutting in): “But we follow smart. No hero moves. No splitting up.”> Sera: “You mean like Elise did?”The jet sliced through the pre-dawn sky, frost veining across its reinforced windows. Below, a frozen stretch of Canadian Arctic came into view barren, brutal, and humming with invisible code.Sera stood by the window, arms folded. Her reflection fractured in the glass. Lucien moved up behind her, wordless, but close.> Sera (without turning): “What if we’re walking into her trap?”> Lucien: “Then we spring it together.”She turned now, locking eyes with him. Snowlight caught the sharp line of his jaw, the steel in his expression. But his voice that was soft.> Lucien: “I lost her once. I won’t lose you too.”Sera searched his face.> Sera: “You never really had her. Not the way you have me.”She brushed her h

  • Cold Hands, Warm Lies   Chapter Fifty Four

    > Lucien: “He’s not testing the system anymore. He’s testing us.”Sera didn’t flinch. Her back still pressed to his, skin buzzing from the kiss, the threat, the choice Aquila had left like a loaded gun on the table.> Sera: “Then we don’t give him what he wants. We give him what he fears.”Lucien turned to face her fully. Hair tousled. Eyes sharp. She wasn’t just surviving anymore. She was becoming.> Lucien: “You really want to bring him in?”> Sera: “No. I want to beat him at his own game.”Footsteps approached from the corridor light, fast, precise.Ava.> Ava: “He’s gone. But not far. And we have a bigger problem.”Lucien’s jaw clenched.> Lucien: “Say it.”> Ava: “There’s a breach in Amber’s Santiago node. Unauthorized uplink. 2:47 a.m. Their time.”> Sera: “That’s one of the three Elise flagged in her journal. It’s a triangulation attempt.”> Lucien: “Someone’s trying to map the neural backbone.”> Ava: “Or corrupt it.”Silence hit them like static. Sera moved first, brushing pa

  • Cold Hands, Warm Lies   Chapter Fifty Three

    A red siren jolted through the penthouse. Sera bolted upright, heart spiking. Lucien was already alert, pulse pounding.> Lucien (urgent whisper): “They’re inside.”Still clad in last night’s heat, they raced through dimly lit halls toward the command hub. Crimson warning lights flickered.> Sera (fingers flying on the console): “I’m isolating the node PENTHOUSE_NODE.”Codes streamed across the screen then a new alert: INTRUDER: Basement Safe Room.They exchanged a charged look.> Lucien: “Stay close. Let’s move.”They crept toward the basement staircase, hallway lights flickering with each breath.The basement corridor felt colder, glass walls reflecting metal racks and server cages, silent sentinels of their world. The door to the safe room was ajar.> Lucien (whisper): “I’ll go in cover me.”Sera shook her head.> Sera: “No. I’m not hiding.”They slipped inside.Aquila stood before them, relaxed yet dangerous, rain glistening on his damp coat.> Aquila: “You built a sanctuary but l

  • Cold Hands, Warm Lies   Chapter Fifty Two

    The grey dawn in Berlin mirrored the mood on Marktplatz Square, a stark contrast to the soft glow of Amber nodes worldwide. Protest signs littered the plaza: “Don’t Test My Truth!”, “Amber = Surveillance!”, “Free Choice or Digital Cage?”Sera stepped out of the van, bundled in a trench coat beside Lucien and Elise. The air smelled of diesel and damp concrete. They wore earpieces, tablets in hand, not tourists, but peacemakers in a digital rebellion.> Ava (over comm):“Berlin node is live but flagged every 30 seconds. A mass node freeze is pending.”Sera studied the crowd faces alive with rage, fear, confusion.> Sera (into mic, determined):“We’re here to listen. Not lecture.”Lucien wrapped an arm around her waist silent strength beside her.> Lucien:“Let’s show them it’s human-powered.”They approached a line of police barrier tape. A group of protesters surged forward, chanting slogans in German.Sera raised a hand peaceful, measured > Sera (voice calm):“We’re with you. Let us

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