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The Memory He Broke

The Memory He Broke

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I was an elite sniper in the special forces, and my best friend was a brilliant sniper too. She died after enduring unimaginable torture when she was captured while covering my escape. The military's top brass and her father, a general, demanded that I reveal the truth about that mission so they could honor her as a fallen hero. However, in front of everyone, I claimed I could not remember a thing. Her father was so enraged that he vomited blood on the spot. My comrades called me a coward and a traitor. Just when I was about to be sent before a military court, my fiancé, Sean Lawson, stood against the opposition and saved me. He promised to take me away from all the trouble. However, the moment I got into his car, he personally injected me with a powerful sedative. "You love keeping your mouth shut, don't you? Fine. Let's see how you like spending the rest of your life unable to speak." He threw me into an overseas black-site prison, where I endured relentless beatings and branding with red-hot irons, all so I could suffer the same despair he believed his beloved had endured before her death. Finally, he strapped me into a military-grade deep memory extraction device, determined to broadcast that so-called 'truth' to the entire world.

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Chapter 1

Cold iron chains clamped around my wrists and ankles, pinning me to a specially designed interrogation chair in the center of the military courtroom.

Jagged scars covered my body. My ruined left leg could barely support me, even with the help of a metal brace.

The courtroom was packed with senior officers, representatives from the units involved in the case, and authorized spectators. They had once been my comrades. Now, all I saw in their eyes was contempt and indifference.

At the judges' bench sat a military judge in full uniform, his expression grim.

Beside the prosecution sat my fiancé, Sean Lawson, his uniform immaculate and his shoulder insignia gleaming. As the military's special investigator assigned to the treason case, he was also the prosecution's star witness and the man responsible for presenting the key evidence at today's trial.

He looked at me with eyes as cold as ice, as if I were a traitor he had never known.

"Activate the equipment." His voice held not a trace of warmth. "Janet Yates, you betrayed your country and got your comrades killed. Today, I'm going to show the entire world exactly what you did."

His words rang through the courtroom speakers. At the same time, the military's global broadcast went live, and countless cameras turned toward me.

Sean personally flipped the switch on the control panel.

Electricity surged through my body.

The military had secretly developed this advanced memory extraction device to retrieve and reconstruct a person's memories. Now, Sean was using it as an instrument of torture.

Agonizing pain washed over me. My vision went black around the edges, and I nearly lost consciousness.

I lifted my head and looked at him through a blur of tears. Inside me, nothing else remained but a terrible emptiness.

Three years in an overseas black-site prison had destroyed me. The beatings, the lashes, the red-hot irons pressed against my skin had crushed the pride I once carried as an elite sniper. They had ground even my pathetic little love for him into dust.

In the front row sat General Arthur Moore. His eyes were bloodshot as he glared at me.

He was the father of Chelsea Moore, the fallen 'hero' everyone mourned.

The hatred in his eyes made it seem as if he wanted to tear me apart with his bare hands.

Sean left the prosecution table and strode straight toward me. He seized my chin, his eyes glinting with ice-cold fury.

"Still refusing to confess?" He tightened his grip. "Today, I'm going to make you scream out every last thing you've been too afraid to say."

The enormous screen behind him suddenly lit up, displaying a photograph of Chelsea in happier days, her face glowing with a radiant smile.

"She was such an innocent girl, and you got her killed. How can you live with yourself?"

Whispers and angry murmurs swept through the courtroom.

"Chelsea was such a wonderful person. How could she ever have been friends with a traitor like this?"

"If she didn't look a little like Chelsea, do you think she'd have lasted this long?"

"Look at the state of her. How could General Lawson ever have fallen for someone like that?"

Insults came from every direction.

I had already been injected with a powerful muscle relaxant. I could not even muster the strength to bite through my own tongue and end my life.

Sean turned toward the spectators and the cameras surrounding the courtroom. He deliberately raised the electrode wires attached to my body, displaying them to the world like a trophy he had just captured.

Then, he glanced at the control panel and gave his next order in a frigid voice.

"Begin the memory extraction program."

A sharp electrical crackle filled the room.

The machine powered up, and the current intensified.

My body arched uncontrollably against the restraints.

However, the first image to appear on the giant screen was not from the mission in question.

It was from three years ago, when Sean had proposed to Chelsea. I was standing a short distance behind them, an unnecessary, ridiculous shadow in someone else's happy moment.

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