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CHAPTER 114

last update Date de publication: 2026-02-19 22:16:31

After Enzo’s report, the first hour passed in controlled silence.

Blackstone never panic but immediately adapted.

Opened doors were quietly closed and secured. Rotations of staff shifted by two-minute intervals. The passive cameras started to switch to active tracking, their faint red indicators glowing sharper in the dim corridors.

Dominic stood once more in the lower security room, the folded parchment now hidden in one of Alessandro’s concealed compartments beneath the main console.

Althea s
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