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Sister Knows Something

Author: Solan Drayke
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The room was swallowed in sudden darkness, the hum of the servers cutting off mid-breath. Leo’s pulse spiked—not from the dark, but from the precision of it. Power outages were messy. This was surgical.

“Jax?” he called.

“Already on backup,” Jax’s voice came from somewhere to his left, calm but clipped. “This wasn’t random. Someone cut the feed.”

A thin beam of emergency light flickered on, bathing the room in a cold, unnatural glow. Leo’s gaze flicked to the now-dead security camera. Its single red eye had gone dark, but he could still feel it watching.

His phone buzzed again. Same number. Same faceless message.

This is your last warning.

Jax leaned over his shoulder, scanning the words. “That’s not a bluff, Knight. Whoever this is… they were already inside before I started digging. That’s why the walls were so thick—they weren’t keeping me out, they were keeping everyone out.”

Leo’s jaw tightened. “Except they noticed when we slipped through.”

The silence that followed wasn’
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