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ARIA, WHAT DID YOU DO?

Author: Adeyiga Adejoke
last update Last Updated: 2025-11-29 18:41:41

Lena's voice came back, tight with fear.

"Maybe ninety seconds until they reach your level but Aria, if they arrive while you're engaged with enhanced operatives..."

"They'll witness capabilities we can't explain," I finished, understanding the complication. Engage now and risk federal agents seeing supernatural combat. Wait and give Evan time to position his forces more advantageously.

Through the computer control center's windows, I could see Lancaster estate's grounds;

Hundreds of civilians being evacuated by legitimate security personnel and Veena's hunter network, emergency vehicles arriving, media beginning to gather beyond the perimeter.

The chaos we'd contained inside was about to become very public if this confrontation escalated.

"You know what I realized during these months of running?" Evan said, his voice dropping to something quieter, more personal.

"That love is just another weakness. Another vulnerability that people exploit." His eyes locked with mine, and I saw
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  • ECHOES OF THE PAST    WE ARE READY FOR WAR

    You want to sacrifice yourself to stop Richard? Fine. But don't expect me to just accept it without fighting to keep you alive.""Maybe you should be focusing on the mission instead of on me," I said, the exhaustion and fear making me cruel. "Richard's counting on us being distracted by personal feelings. We need to be tactical, not emotional.""Tactical?" Damian's voice carried an edge I'd never heard before. "You want tactical? Tactically speaking, your plan has maybe thirty percent success probability. You're attempting techniques that have never been done, under combat conditions, while exhausted and pushed beyond sustainable limits. That's not tactical. That's suicide with extra steps.""Then what's your alternative?" I challenged. "Let Richard win? Let him kill the hostages and release the bioweapon? Accept that some things are too impossible even for resurrected hunters?""My alternative is asking for help instead of carrying everything alone," Damian replied. "Trusting your

  • ECHOES OF THE PAST    PREPARING FOR WAR

    Richard's voice provided narration: "Just so you understand the stakes, that device you barely see is the bioweapon delivery system. It's programmed to activate if I don't input a specific code every twelve hours. Miss one code entry, and it releases globally. Attempt to disable it, and it releases immediately. And in case you're wondering, there are seven identical devices positioned worldwide. You'd need to neutralize all of them simultaneously to prevent release." The video ended with a final message appearing on screen: "Seventy-two hours. The choice is yours, but every option leads through me. See you at the wedding." "-RG" "Seven devices," Damian said grimly. "Positioned worldwide, requiring simultaneous neutralization. He's thought of everything." "Not everything," I replied, feeling the power that had manifested at the facility stirring inside me again. "He hasn't accounted for what I became while he was torturing me. He doesn't understand that his procedures didn't

  • ECHOES OF THE PAST    THE INVITATION

    The camera zoomed in on Aunty Dora in one of the church pews, clearly visible and apparently unaware she was being recorded."Come to stop me, and I'll kill everyone you care about," Richard said. "Stay away, and perhaps they survive the ceremony. Either way, I win. If you come, I prove that even cosmic power can't protect ordinary people from human cruelty. If you don't, I prove you're willing to sacrifice those who depend on you to preserve yourselves."The message ended, replaced by a single image:A formal wedding invitation addressed to Aria Sinclair and Damian Cole, embossed with elegant lettering that made the threat feel almost civilized."He's escalated," Damian said, reading the invitation's details. "This isn't about capturing us anymore. He's testing whether we'll risk everyone we care about to stop him."The wedding invitation sat on the safe house table like a malignant presence, its elegant calligraphy and embossed lettering making the threat it contained feel almost

  • ECHOES OF THE PAST    SEVENTY TWO HOURS

    CHAPTER 104: ARIA UNLEASHEDThe facility's corridors became a battlefield unlike anything Damian had witnessed before. Not because of the violence or the numbers of enemies, but because of what Aria had become during those hours of captivity. Whatever Richard's invasive procedures had done to her, whatever boundaries they'd crossed while dissecting her consciousness, they'd triggered something that went far beyond normal resurrection enhancement.Damian caught up to her as she walked through a junction where twenty enhanced soldiers had been positioned to intercept. They stood motionless, weapons lowered, their artificial consciousness completely overridden by Aria's influence. As he watched, they turned on each other, attacking with the same coordination they'd been programmed to use against intruders."Aria, stop," Damian said, reaching for her arm. "You're killing them.""They're not alive," Aria replied, her voice carrying those strange harmonics that made reality feel malleabl

  • ECHOES OF THE PAST    THE TRAP SPRINGS

    The Dissonance Protocol hit Damian like a physical wall, disrupting the frequency he'd been using to channel The Balance's power directly. The golden aura that had made him unstoppable flickered and dimmed, and for the first time since beginning his assault, he felt vulnerable, almost human again in his limitations."Perfect," Richard's voice echoed through the facility's speakers. "The protocol is working exactly as designed. Mr. Cole, you're about to learn that cosmic power means nothing when human technology can simply turn it off."Damian forced himself back to his feet, drawing on reserves of strength that didn't require channeling external power. He still had his enhanced capabilities. Still had three years of resurrection-granted abilities even without The Balance's direct manifestation but the overwhelming force he'd been wielding was gone, replaced by something merely superhuman rather than transcendent."Activate Phase Two," Richard ordered. "Deploy all remaining artific

  • ECHOES OF THE PAST    RICHARD WAS WINNING

    The journey that should have taken hours Damian covered in less than forty minutes, his enhanced speed making him almost impossible to track. He moved through the city like a force of nature, barely touching the ground, using supernatural capabilities that went far beyond what anyone had witnessed previously. Richard's facility appeared ahead, all security lights and patrolling enhanced soldiers. Damian didn't slow, didn't alter his approach to something more tactical or subtle. He simply ran directly at the perimeter fence, his body surrounded by a golden aura that marked him as something beyond normal resurrection enhancement. The fence exploded as he passed through it, metal vaporizing under the manifestation of Balance-granted power. Enhanced soldiers responded immediately, weapons raised and firing, but Damian moved too fast for them to track. He was among them before they could adjust their aim, eliminating threats with strikes that left unconscious or broken bodies in hi

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