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Chapter Nineteen: She Was Never Asleep

Author: Becca Williams
last update Huling Na-update: 2025-06-08 03:26:41

The door unsealed with a breath.

Not a click. Not a buzz.

Like the room itself gave permission.

Aria stepped through first. Cassian behind her. His hands didn’t tremble, but his silence did.

Delia stood in the center of the room.

No guards.

No restraints.

No fear.

She looked at her son first then at Aria.

And when she spoke, her voice was smooth, low, and devastatingly clear:

“I’ve been waiting for you both.”

Cassian didn’t speak.

Aria did.

“You’re alive.”

Delia tilted her head. “They never meant to kill me. Just remove me from the equation.”

“Why?”

Delia smiled faintly.

“Because Charles was never afraid of me. He was afraid of what I believed about the system.”

Aria stepped closer.

“And what was that?”

“That it needed someone like you to survive.”

Aria blinked. “Me?”

“You were the only Blackbird subject who didn’t shatter. You were meant to be erased but I buried a code inside your survival.”

Aria froze.

“What code?”

Delia walked to the table in the center of the room and pulled
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