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CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX — THE ISLAND REVELATION

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The sea was too calm.

Elara noticed it before anything else, the way the water lay flat and dark beneath the night sky, as if holding its breath. No shipping lights. No distant engines. Just silence stretching in every direction.

The boat cut through it without announcement.

Kai stood at the helm, guiding them with quiet precision. He hadn’t needed to check the navigation twice. The coordinates were burned into his memory, pulled from layers of Damon’s hidden accounts and routed through systems meant to disappear as soon as they were used.

Elara wrapped her arms around herself, the wind cool against her skin. “This place doesn’t exist, does it?”

Kai shook his head. “Not officially.”

The island rose slowly out of the darkness, a low shadow at first, then something more solid. Not dramatic. Not tropical. Just rock and dense vegetation shaped into a deliberate outline.

No lights welcomed them.

No dock lamps blinked to life.

“That’s intentional,” Elara murmured. “He didn’t want it found.
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