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Chapter 64

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CAMERON’S POV

The timer didn’t care that my heart was trying to escape my chest.

00:24

00:23

00:22

Each second blinked down like it was daring me to blink first.

“Okay,” I said, my voice way too high to sound calm. “Okay. Phase Two. Cool. Love that. What was Phase One? Psychological torture? Because that really hit.”

Brandon didn’t laugh.

He was on his feet already, scanning the control room like it might suddenly sprout teeth. His jaw was tight, shoulders tense, the way they get when he’s trying not to panic and failing quietly.

“Cam,” he said softly, “I think Phase One was watching us.”

That made my stomach flip.

“What do you mean?”

He pointed at the wall of monitors. Every angle of the frat house. The hallway we’d just escaped. The dark corridor with the silhouette—frozen now, empty, like nothing had ever been there.

“They were tracking behavior,” he continued. “How we react under pressure. How far we’d go. How we move together.”

I stared at the screens. “You’re saying this is some
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