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Chapter Eighteen

Author: Divine
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Jamal

Quiet isn't so much the absence of noise, it's how you adapt and at the moment, we were ignoring all the rules I'd ever learned about how to survive.

The hum of the drone sliced through us, slicing through the air like metal through skin. I felt Eleanor's heat before i heard her voice. It was the voice I'd heard in nightmares, in black-bagged debriefs and on coded files i was never supposed to see. It was commanding, cold and recognizable.

"Run" I spat and grab Melissa's wrist.

We sprinted down the alleyway at the back of the safehouse ducking beneath the guttering lamplight and my mind calculated exit routes, casualty totals and probabilities. All of them were bad.

"She's alive" Melissa panted at my shoulder and her voice strained with amazement "How the devil is she still alive?"

"Clones, backup, stand-ins—it doesn't count. That woman's real and that's not an impersonator or a stunt double".

We ducked quickly down a maintenance corridor i remembered from a botched op four year
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