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Chapter 28 – Shattered Trust

Penulis: Rayo B.
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The hum of the VTOL jet faded behind them as Elena stared through the reinforced window at Istanbul’s predawn skyline. The city’s lights shimmered through the morning mist, fading like ghosts and with them, a sense of growing uncertainty took hold.

Grayson sat across from her, clad in transfer armor, his gaze vacant—recovering, calculating, yet unreachable. The mission ahead demanded precision, but her heart wrestled with the fog of uncertainty.

In Flight – Mid-air

Elena checked her datapad again, reading encrypted coordinates: a warehouse tucked beneath fading cloisters near the Bosporus. The intel from Creed’s contact was fragile but plausible. She looked up at Grayson.

“Ready?”

He nodded. But his silence felt heavy, as if something weighed behind his eyes.

She pressed, “Grayson?”

He closed his eyes. When they opened again, something dark had shifted behind the blue.

“I need to tell you something,” he said quietly.

Her heart clenched.

“You saved me…” he continued
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