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CHAPTER 17: Eli’s Question

Autor: Nenye Mark
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The silence in the crisis room was so deep that it hummed.

The recovered footage label still glowed on the screen like a warning flare:

SURVEILLANCE ARCHIVE

SUBJECTS: LILA MONROE & DOMINIC HALE

LOCATION: SUBLEVEL—6 YEARS AGO

Dominic stared at it as if the ground had vanished beneath him.

Lila couldn’t breathe.

Eli clung to her hip, burying his face in her shirt.

No one spoke.

No one moved.

Even the guards seemed afraid to inhale.

Finally, Dominic whispered, “We’re not watching this in front of him.”

He wasn’t talking to the guards.

He was looking at Lila.

She nodded stiffly. “We need to go upstairs. He’s had enough.”

Dominic hesitated, torn between the file and the child trembling in Lila’s arms. His conflict was visible in the sharp lines carved across his brow, his jaw tight, his pulse hammering in his throat.

He looked exhausted. And scared. Really scared.

Lila walked past him.

Eli reached for Dominic as they passed.

It wasn’t intentional.

Just instinct.

But Dominic froze at the sm
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