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Chapter Nineteen: Ashgrove Unleashed

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They left before dawn.

The sky was slate gray, clouds low and thick like something was pressing down on the world. Evelyn sat in the passenger seat of the blacked-out SUV, the map burned into her memory. Emily rode behind her, silent but alert. Mason drove. Anika was in the second vehicle behind them, following at a distance with their backup gear and a sat-link jammer.

The forest swallowed them whole as they veered off the last known trail.

No signs. No roads. No birdsong.

Only the crunch of tires over frostbitten ground and the slow, creeping feeling that they were being watched.

Ashgrove wasn’t a place—it was a perimeter.

A ring of hidden surveillance, pressure sensors, and sound-dampening tech buried under years of moss and leaves. Caroline’s notes had mentioned something called Project Fenrir, and the closer they got, the more real it became.

“Eyes up,” Mason muttered. “We’re about to cross the outer line.”

Evelyn checked her watch.

Exactly 5:23 a.m.

Right on time.

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