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Chapter 122 – Blood on Glass

Author: The Butterfly Mind
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Lucrezia’s Island – Sublevel Command Deck

The lights flickered as Sera and her team moved deeper into the fortress, the dim corridor ahead branching into a metallic maze of surgical labs, server rooms, and cryo chambers. The air was clinical, far too clean, as if the place had been scrubbed of any trace of humanity.

Or guilt.

“This whole facility… it’s a goddamn morgue,” Camila muttered, sweeping the hall with her silenced pistol.

Sera didn’t speak. Her eyes were locked on the biometric scanner at the far end of the corridor—the access point to the central control chamber. The place Lucrezia would be watching from. The place where this would end.

Valerio stayed close beside her, rifle raised, boots silent. Their earlier words still echoed in her head. I love you.

She hadn’t said it back. Not yet.

But the way her fingers brushed his as they approached the locked door… it said enough.

Matteo crouched by the scanner. “We need a retina or a bypass code. I can spoof it with time.”

“How muc
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