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CHAPTER 102

Author: Kemzie
last update Last Updated: 2025-12-26 22:23:04

KAYE'S POV

The cabin smelled like staled coffee signifying it's being there for long

It felt lived in. Not abandoned. Not staged. A fire crackled softly in the stone hearth, and the furniture showed wear in the way of long use rather than decoration. Whoever Subject Zero was, she had been here for a while.

She closed the door behind me gently.

Not locked.

That detail mattered more than I wanted it to.

“You are shaking,” she said softly.

“I am standing in a room with the woman who looks exactly like me and claims to be my mother,” I replied. “I think shaking is reasonable.”

A corner of her mouth lifted. Not a smile. Something heavier.

“I am forty eight,” she said. “I look thirty because the pathogen stops cellular aging in subjects who survive full integration.”

My chest tightened. “So you are living proof it works.”

“Yes,” she said. “And proof of the cost.”

She gestured for me to sit. I did not. I needed my legs under me, needed the option to run even if I would not use it.

“I was dyi
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