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Chapter 159: The Final Catalyst
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2026-05-15 13:00:08(Kira POV)
"Gone? What do you mean gone?" I gripped Sage’s shoulder so hard my nails dug into the fabric of her jacket. My voice was a jagged whisper, barely audible over the growing roar of the HVAC system below. "Sage, look at me! People don't just vanish into thin air. Did the signal drop? Is it the shielding?"
Sage’s eyes were wide, fixed on the flatline of the biometric data on her tablet. Her breathing was coming in
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Mated To My Captor Chapter 159: The Final Catalyst
(Kira POV)"Gone? What do you mean gone?" I gripped Sage’s shoulder so hard my nails dug into the fabric of her jacket. My voice was a jagged whisper, barely audible over the growing roar of the HVAC system below. "Sage, look at me! People don't just vanish into thin air. Did the signal drop? Is it the shielding?"Sage’s eyes were wide, fixed on the flatline of the biometric data on her tablet. Her breathing was coming in short, shallow bursts. "No... no, Kira, you don't understand. A signal drop flickers. It degrades. This was... it was like someone flipped a kill switch. One second they were there, their hearts beating, their comms active... and the next, the entire hardware ID was purged from the local grid. It’s like they were never even in the building.""Dante wouldn't just leave," I snapped, my mind racing. "And Juniper wouldn't leave you. They're down there. They have to be."
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"Kira," Imara called out as I reached the door. I stopped, looking back at her. Her eyes were clouded with a weary wisdom. "Elias is not just a man you catch. He is a ghost you have to exorcise. My advice? Make your peace now. With yourself, with your brother, with... whatever you have become. Move on if you can, because once you step into that cathedral, there is no coming back to the life you had before.""I made my peace with the old life a long time ago, Imara," I said, my hand gripping the doorframe. "Now, I’m just making sure Elias doesn't take anyone else's.""He is a difficult man to catch," she whispered, almost to herself. "He counts your steps before you even take them.""Then we’ll just have to leap," Dante said, his voice a low rumble behind me. He gave Imara a short, respectful nod—a silent acknowledgement from one survivor to another.We descended the na
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Imara’s hands dropped from her face, her fingers trembling as she looked at me with a mixture of awe and absolute terror. She leaned forward in the tattered armchair, the sallow skin of her face pulling tight over her cheekbones."Leo’s sister?" she whispered, her voice cracking. "He spoke of you every single night we were in the trenches together. He told me you were the one who needed saving. He told me he had to burn the world down just to make sure you weren't consumed by it.""He was trying to protect me," I said, my voice thick. "But he didn't tell me why. He didn't tell me what he was really doing."Imara let out a wet, jagged laugh that turned into a cough. She looked past me at Dante, her eyes widening as she took in his height, the breadth of his shoulders, and the way he stood with a relaxed, lethal grace that was impossible to fake."How did you do it?" she asked
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