Chapter 139: The Catalyst of DisclosureThe aftermath of exposure struck like an earthquake.Within minutes of Sophia and Elise disappearing into Zurich’s shadowed alleys, the Directive’s root code cascaded through torrent sites, dark web channels, and frontend servers—no owner, no gatekeeper, just
Chapter 138: The Zurich Key---Zurich’s cold clarity hit differently than Vienna’s dense haze. The mountains in the distance looked sharp enough to cut sky. Clean air. Clean money. And now, a clean breach waiting to happen.Sophia and Elise moved through the Hauptbahnhof station like ghosts, dresse
Chapter 137: The Vienna Directive---The wind off the Danube was colder than expected for late spring. Sophia stood on the old bridge just beyond Vienna’s city center, her coat drawn tightly around her, eyes scanning the pedestrian walkway ahead. Tourists were sparse at this hour. Locals even spars
Chapter 136: A Line in the Dark—The silence between Sophia and Marcus hung like a wire pulled too tight. Elise kept her weapon trained on Marcus’s shoulder, her jaw clenched, not relaxing even an inch. But Marcus didn’t move. He didn’t have to. His calm alone made Sophia’s stomach knot.“Start tal
Chapter 135: Redlake Protocol—Two days later, Sophia stood on a rain-slick tarmac in northern Romania, eyes locked on the coordinates displayed on her burner phone. Redlake wasn’t marked on any map. No satellite data. No intelligence agency reference. Just latitude and longitude buried in Orion’s
Chapter 134: Beneath the MountainThe reinforced steel door loomed in front of them, tall and featureless except for a single biometric scanner embedded into the frame. Sophia stared at it, knowing full well this wasn’t going to be simple. Nothing about The Vault was.“Elise, cover me,” she said qui