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A Daughter by design

Author: Oathpen
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AVA

She held Liam's hand.

Fingers so little, they barely closed around his.

But the gesture was deliberate.

Possessive.

And completely unusual for someone who had just opened her eyes.

He dubbed her "Daughter."

My throat closed. Not because he said the term, but because she believed it. I noticed it in her expression: calm reverence, not perplexity. No questions, no fears. Just certainty. She would picked him. Or worse, she was designed to.

That worried me more than anything we would ever encountered.

DAMIAN

I could not look away from them. From a pairing that should never have been. Liam the lad we would saved, mentored, and trusted and the girl who now stood by his side, like the rebirth of every failure we thought we would forgotten.

Julian's voice buzzed in my communication again.

"Her imprint is built to identify the major source of neuronal familiarity. Liam became that after obtaining Genesis' code.

"She is unaware that he has changed."

But I
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