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Chapter 74: The Lost Beta
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2025-11-08 19:13:16The name on the screen was a ghost, a phantom limb that had been aching in Marcus Thorne’s soul for a decade. Ariana. His brilliant, ambitious, reckless older sister. The woman who had vanished in a fire, a tragedy that had shattered his family and sent him spiraling into the cold, disciplined world of the military, a world where emotion was a liability.
“It’s not possible,” he choked out, his voice a raw, broken thing. The mountain of a man, the unflappable soldi
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