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Chapter 88

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Victoria’s POV

Damian thought he had time.

That was his first mistake.

He always believed people needed space to decide, as if choice was a slow process instead of a reflex shaped by fear and habit.

I’d made mine the moment he said secondary containment.

That phrase didn’t mean prison.

It meant erasure.

I didn’t look at Adrian or Stefan. If I did, Damian would see the signal in my face.

Instead, I focused on the console behind the glass. The one Damian trusted because it was old, isolated, and
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