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CHAPTER 215

Author: CagalieYula
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The safehouse hummed with the kind of quiet that always came before a storm.

I sat cross-legged on the floor of the war room, my laptop balanced on my knees, the glow of the screen casting eerie shadows across the classified files Gregory Varga had so generously delivered. The encryption had been child's play to crack—either he severely underestimated me, or he wanted these files found.

Jeff leaned over my shoulder, his breath warm against my ear. "That's the Alpine facility." His finger hovered over a blurred image of a concrete compound half-buried in snow. "But these schematics... these are new."

I zoomed in. The blueprints showed subterranean levels that hadn't been there when we'd raided the place last winter. Deeper tunnels. Wider chambers. A whole new wing labeled Project Aegis in my father's precise handwriting.

Eva appeared at my elbow, a mug of tea steaming in her hands. She'd changed out of Lina's sweatshirt into one of mine—a black cashmere sweater that hung loose around h
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