MasukYears of fear came out in one breath. Every scream, every tear, every night I had woken up remembering his machines, every time I'd wondered what I had done to deserve it. I swung again, drove my knee forward. He stumbled backward. The metal collar around his neck caught the light. For the first
I wiped my bloody boots on his uniform, racked the slide of my weapon, and stepped over their bodies without slowing down. But the alarm remained screaming behind me. "Security breach." "Security breach." ━⊰ ❦ ⊱━ Gianna ━⊰ ❦ ⊱━ Everything around me vanished. My mind went unnaturally quiet,
I followed it down the corridor. The farther I went, the colder the building became. The lights above me flickered. A metal door stood at the end of the hall, beyond it was the basement. I took another step and the lights went out. I stopped. For half a second, the whole building became completely
That told me something, they were comfortable. Comfortable men became careless men. So, I waited. One guard stopped near the corner of the building and checked his phone. The other kept walking. I remained still for the seconds. The first man moved again. I waited until the two separated by enough
"I don't need long." That was the difference. I didn't need to own their system. I only needed to understand it. I pulled up the satellite image. The island appeared as a dark shape against darker water. There was one proper dock, one main road, and one building. A secondary structure farther inla
Raphael ━━ ⛓ ━━ The green dot had gone still, and I kept my eyes locked on it, refusing to look away even for a second. The pattern had changed. The signal was no longer following a road. It was moving in a straight line away from the coast, over water. I zoomed out. Philadelphia sat behind
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Waiting. For heartbreak. For regret. For grief. Nothing came. Only relief. And for the first time since his name had appeared on my screen... I smiled. ──━⊰ 𓆙 ⊱━── The office floor hummed around me. Monitors glowed from every direction. Lines of code scrolled endlessly across screens. Pho
"You're even hotter than they said." "Please!" I sobbed, my face half-buried in the leaves, "Please, let me go! I didn't know... I didn't agree to this!" I tried to crawl forward, my fingers clawing at the mud, but he just laughed. It was a dark, mean sound. He grabbed the back of my black top and
Gianna ━⊰ ❦ ⊱━ I tugged at the scrap of black lace riding up my hip. This outfit wasn’t clothes, it was a prayer. A tiny, see-through prayer. I caught my reflection in the cracked dressing room mirror and barely recognized the girl staring back. The silver wig was cold and synthetic against my







