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Into The Ashes

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Skyla

I didn’t sleep. None of us did. We couldn’t bring ourselves to, not after everything. Not after all the evidence that pressed heavily against us like a heavy cloud.

By the time the sun rose, the safe house smelled of burnt coffee, burnt toast, and nerves stretched too thin. The city outside was alive in a way I’d never heard before, sirens wailing down every avenue, news choppers circling overhead like vultures, protest chants rolling like thunder between the glass towers. The air itself felt heavier, charged. I wondered how they were able to find us this quick. Nowhere, was safe.

And underneath it all. Underneath all these chaos, one name pulsed like a heartbeat in my skull.

Nakea.

The woman who had kept the Blood Ledger hidden, who’d recorded every transaction, every name, every victim Carl Anderson wanted erased. She was the last domino standing. If we found her, his empire crumbled.

If Carl found her first…

I shoved that thought away. Burying it deep into a section o
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    Skyla’The warehouse exploded into chaos. Shouts thundered from every direction, ricocheting off steel beams until I couldn’t tell where they came from. Flashlights slashed the dark, wild arcs of white cutting across broken machinery and collapsing walls.Nakea yanked me forward, weaving between crates with the instinct of someone who had lived in the shadows for far too long. My lungs burned as I stumbled after her, sneakers sliding on broken glass. Every crunch of gravel underfoot felt like a flare giving us away.Behind me, Xavier’s voice cut through the din, loud and insistent. “Skyla—!”His desperation clawed at me, but so did the thunder of boots closing in.Then—gunfire.The sharp crack split the air as bullets slammed into rusted beams, emitting sparks spitting in every direction. A crate exploded into splinters inches from my head. I screamed and dropped, hands flying over my ears.Nakea shoved me behind a pallet, her face twisted in fury. “Quiet!”But another shape ba

  • The Perfect Revenge    Fall-out

    SkylaThe warehouse swallowed us whole.The door slammed shut behind us with a hollow clang, and suddenly, we were standing in a world where sound carried too far, and shadows moved too quickly. My flashlight beam cut through the black—glinting off rusted beams, broken glass, and the skeleton of a forklift slumped against a wall. The air smelled like rot and metal, like the building itself was decaying from the inside out.We moved deeper. Every step crunched on gravel and bottle shards, echoing far louder than I wanted. My pulse was in my throat, hammering hard enough. I swore the others could hear it.There were several thoughts going on through my head, I couldn’t let Carl get to her first, and knowing that he was just seconds away from swooping down on us and carting her away, didn’t make me feel any better.Then I saw her. At first, she was only movement—something sleek and sharp, slipping out from behind a stack of crates. But then the light caught her face, and my world spl

  • The Perfect Revenge    The Hunnt Begins

    Skyla The industrial quarter always smelled like rust and rain. By the time we reached it, the sky was bruised grey, clouds sagging low enough to touch the jagged rooftops. The air reeked of iron and stagnant seawater, carrying the faint tang of smoke from some factory fire that hadn’t been put out right. It felt like the kind of place where secrets didn’t just hide—they festered.It was perfect ground for a ghost like Nakea.Charlie had split us into two teams. He and Taylor would circle west, combing the docks and the rows of storage units; Ed, Xavier, and I would cut east, where the warehouses crouched like broken teeth along the river.“Keep comms live,” Charlie muttered, tugging his earpiece into place before disappearing with Taylor into the mist.That left the three of us moving into silence thick enough to choke on.Xavier walked at my side, every step calculated, his eyes scanned through the shadows like they were enemies waiting to strike. He hadn’t spoken much since t

  • The Perfect Revenge    Into The Ashes

    Skyla I didn’t sleep. None of us did. We couldn’t bring ourselves to, not after everything. Not after all the evidence that pressed heavily against us like a heavy cloud.By the time the sun rose, the safe house smelled of burnt coffee, burnt toast, and nerves stretched too thin. The city outside was alive in a way I’d never heard before, sirens wailing down every avenue, news choppers circling overhead like vultures, protest chants rolling like thunder between the glass towers. The air itself felt heavier, charged. I wondered how they were able to find us this quick. Nowhere, was safe.And underneath it all. Underneath all these chaos, one name pulsed like a heartbeat in my skull.Nakea.The woman who had kept the Blood Ledger hidden, who’d recorded every transaction, every name, every victim Carl Anderson wanted erased. She was the last domino standing. If we found her, his empire crumbled.If Carl found her first…I shoved that thought away. Burying it deep into a section o

  • The Perfect Revenge    The Snake Coils

    CarlThe city was trembling. It was in chaos, and my name was being dragged through the mud, I hated this – hated every single moment what all I could do was just playing behind the scenes, doing nothing.The city was on fire, I could feel it – feel it in the way my phone never stopped buzzing— never-ending calls from senators, corporate allies, and even old men with brittle spines who only cared about their shares and fattening their pockets. The press conference should have been my crowning moment, the rebirth of Delphinium. Instead, it had been hijacked. Stained.By her.Skyla Leon Jefferson.Her name tasted like venom in my mouth. I stood in my office, glaring out the floor-to-ceiling windows that were glowing with the morning sun, though the light felt hostile. My reflection stared back at me, jagged and wrong, as if the city itself was questioning me. Or worse, mocking me. I could still hear their chants. Hear the screams of every protesters Tanya hovered by the door, p

  • The Perfect Revenge    The Blood Ledger

    SkylaI didn’t sleep. I couldn’t think I didn’t even know what to think.Every time I closed my eyes, I saw the label: Subject One.Every time I breathed, I felt Carl’s hands tightening around my throat like a freaking noose, squeezing and squeezing till I came up breathing for air.By dawn, I was back at the safe house. I barely remembered the drive. All i knew was that Xavier was already there, leaning against the table like he’d been waiting for me all night long. He didn’t ask where I’d gone. He just looked at me, that storm in his eyes mirroring mine.Charlie slid a laptop toward me. “You should see this.”My stomach churned violently On the screen was a folder marked Project Delphinium: Human Trials. Dozens of sub files stretching back nearly twenty years. Names, ages. Some of the statuses were either active, terminated, or missing.I clicked one at random. A boy, not less than nine years old, flickered across the screen, eyes sunken. He looked malnourished, written in

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