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Chapter 7: Ghost of Petrov
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2026-01-02 23:46:56
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(Aria's Point Of View)Mikhail slams Kira into the van’s metal wall hard enough to make the first aid kit rattle off its shelf, his forearm pressed to her throat, his face blank of every emotion except cold, burning rage. Kira, the woman who spent two weeks pretending to be his dead sister Natasha, just smirks up at him, blood trickling from the cut on her lip where he backhanded her ten seconds prior. She does not look scared. She looks proud of how thoroughly she fooled all of us.“Tell me how long,” Mikhail says, his voice so flat it barely carries over the distant wail of sirens. “Tell me how long you practiced her laugh, her stories, the way she used to twist her hair when she was nervous. Tell me how long you let me grieve a woman I thought was finally home.”Kira laughs, a rough, breathless sound. “Every second of every day for two years. I watched old home videos your mother hid in a storage unit until I could recite them in my sleep. I practiced twisting my hair until my wris
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(Aria's Point Of View)The fake key drive digs into the meat of my palm as I sit in the back of the unmarked van, the plastic warm from being clamped in my fist for the last twenty minutes. The comms unit tucked in my ear hums soft and quiet, Isabella’s voice cutting through the static every few seconds with position updates for Mikhail and Alexei, who are perched on the warehouse rooftops surrounding the meeting point. Viktor’s extraction team is parked three blocks away, engines idling, ready to move the second I give the word.I run a finger along the hilt of the knife taped to my ankle, the one Elena slipped me in the hospital, and press my free hand light to my stomach. The baby flutters once, soft and steady, a quiet reminder of exactly what I am fighting for. Clara thinks I am here to cave. She thinks I will hand over the keys to save Dante and run, too scared of losing him to think through the consequences. She does not know I have not survived this long by choosing only one t
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