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Chapter 37 - Fracture Lines

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Later that night, Jaxon found Raven.

The camera feed flickered in the dim glow of the war room. Raven’s knuckles were white where she gripped the edge of the metal table. Onscreen, the girl who’d whispered Gabriel’s name just hours ago, Mina, was held in a concrete room, her mouth gagged, bruises blooming across her cheek.

Zane’s voice filtered through the speakers, low and venomous. "She remembers your brother. Sweet, isn’t it? What’s her life worth to you, Raven?"

Jaxon stood behind her, silent, coiled. His hand hovered near the laptop, but he didn’t touch it. He let the silence stretch, let her sit in the gravity of the threat.

"He’s bluffing," Jaxon said finally.

"He doesn’t bluff," Raven snapped, stepping away. "He just waits until you stop calling it a game."

Her body trembled as she paced the room. The walls were closing in, the steel table felt like a sacrificial altar. Her throat was dry, and the weight pressing on her chest had a name, loyalty.

But to whom?

Zane had
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