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CHAPTER 37 - The Architect's Revealed

Author: Lila Williams
last update Last Updated: 2025-11-25 23:54:51

I woke strapped to a medical chair in a facility that looked like a nightmare had designed it.

White walls. Surgical lights. Machines I could not identify humming around me. The restraints were titanium—no hope of breaking them. An IV dripped something clear into my arm. Not sedative. Something else. Something that made my mind sharp and alert despite wanting to fade into unconsciousness.

"Stimulant," a voice said from the shadows. "I need you lucid for this conversation. Aware. Present."

Not Kane's distorted mechanical voice. Someone else. Smooth. Familiar. Wrong.

A figure stepped into the light.

I stopped breathing.

"No. That is impossible."

Knox stood before me. Not the Knox I knew—scarred from the ambush, supposedly unconscious from tranquilizer darts. This Knox was clean, composed, wearing an expensive suit instead of his leather cut.

"Hello, Eva. We finally get to have an honest conversation."

"You are X?" My mind rejected the information. "Knox, you are X? But you—you have been
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  • THE BIKER'S NEW FOUND MATE    CHAPTER 48 - When Everything Breaks

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