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Chapter 174

Author: Mary Jeremy
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Frostbite and Fireworks:

"“You sure you’re not walking me into a trap?”

Lila’s voice cut through the storm, low and razor-sharp, carried on the wind like a blade tossed by fate.

"Would I waste this much time just to kill you?” Arika replied without glancing back, her silhouette a blur through the thick curtain of snow. “Don’t flatter yourself.”

"You’ve done worse for less."

Lila adjusted the grip on her sidearm beneath her coat, every muscle coiled. “And you still haven’t answered how you got the servers out of here without leaving a trail.”

"You'll see.”

It wasn’t a tease. It wasn’t a threat. It was a promise laced with something darker—familiar, dangerous, and maddeningly vague.

The snowstorm howled around them like a feral thing, wind battering exposed skin and biting through layers as they trudged deeper into the derelict port grounds. Long-dead cranes loomed like rusted sentinels, skeletal and forgotten. The place reeked of salt, decay, and memory.

Lila kept scanning—trees, rooft
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