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Lure of the Familiar

Author: DessySly
last update Last Updated: 2025-08-06 22:23:40

Chapter Sixty Five

Julian’s POV

There was something off about the silence.

It wasn’t the kind of silence that settled naturally, like fog over a sleeping city. This one was engineered, calculated. The deeper I moved into the corridor of the hidden Initiative complex, the more it felt like the building itself was holding its breath.

My boots echoed too cleanly. No guards. No cameras blinking red at the corners. It screamed trap, but I couldn’t turn back.

Not when Aria was somewhere inside.

I touched the comm in my ear again, but it still buzzed with static. They’d jammed signals as soon as I crossed the threshold. Not surprising.

Still, I had trained for worse.

What I hadn’t trained for… was how it felt to think of her in pain.

Every step I took felt like walking through fire. If they’d hurt her, if they’d touched her, I didn’t know what version of myself would be left when I found her.

The old Julian might’ve made rational calls. Calculated risks. But that version was buried beneath t
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