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Chapter 36

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The barrel of Gideon’s silver pistol pressed harder against my forehead, the cold steel biting into my skin like ice.

The rain poured down, soaking through my clothes, but my entire focus was pinned on the low, steady electronic drone emitting from the twins' wrists. The crimson light pulsed rapidly against the wood of the crate, signaling that the chemical charges were trapped in an active, unstable state.

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