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CHAPTER 37

Author: PUREBLISS
last update Petsa ng paglalathala: 2026-02-23 02:12:48

"Get up, Elodie! Move your legs, damn it!"

Victor’s voice ripped through the thick, oily smoke clogging the hallway. He didn't wait for an answer. He shoved a jagged piece of titanium plating aside, the metal shrieking against the deck. The Air-Fortress groaned beneath them, a dying beast tilting forty degrees toward the jagged peaks of the ridge.

"I can't... Victor, the babies... they’re heavy..." Elodie’s voice was a wet rasp. She was pinned under a collapsed support beam, her fingers clawing
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