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Chapter 16: The Broken King’s Gambit

작가: Fillani Putri
last update 게시일: 2026-03-10 01:17:38

The air in the warehouse was thick with the scent of spent shell casings and the metallic tang of blood. Killian stood amidst the carnage, his chest heaving, his eyes glowing with an unnatural, predatory light. The neural stabilizer had turned him into something beyond a man—a blur of lethal efficiency that had left the Board’s tactical team in pieces.

I looked at him, and for a split second, I didn't see the man who had obsessed over me. I saw a mirror. We were both monsters now, tuned to a fr
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