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Echoes of a Name

Author: DessySly
last update Huling Na-update: 2025-07-23 03:17:49

Chapter Thirty Three

Aria’s Pov

The data drive hummed in my hand.

It was heavier than it looked. Cold. Dense. Like it was hiding something alive inside. Something that had teeth.

I hadn’t opened it yet.

I’d stared at it for hours since Julian handed it to me. We’d barely spoken on the ride back. He looked haunted. Like he’d seen a ghost and buried it in the same moment.

“Keep it close,” he’d said, voice gravelly. “And don’t trust anyone. Not even me.”

Not even him.

That line kept playing on repeat like a broken music box.

Not. Even. Me.

And still, I had it. Hidden inside a hollowed-out section of my favorite book, a beat-up edition of Wuthering Heights. Ironic, maybe. I always thought Heathcliff was mad. Now I wasn’t sure if Julian wasn’t too.

Or if I was.

Because the dreams had started again.

Flashes of white rooms. Needles. Wires humming in the dark.

And always, the same name whispered at the edge of my sleep..

“Alpha…”

I finally inserted the drive.

It took four different decoys, a
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