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Siege of Shadows

Author: Dallas Ryan
last update Last Updated: 2025-10-24 01:43:25

Venom

The warning hit like a blade through fabric—soft sound, deep cut.

“Run. He’s already here.”

Harper’s voice came over the comms and through the concrete at the same time, an echo that didn’t line up with itself. Hacker’s shout slammed in a beat later—power cut to Sublevel B—then the whole compound inhaled and the lights went blood-red.

“Lockdown,” I said, already moving. “All wings.”

Steel doors thudded into place down the main hall like a rib cage closing around a wild heart. Sirens woke the sleepers. Boots hammered the floors. Ghost’s voice snapped through the channel—teams fanning to the north and east gates—while Blade’s squads took up positions along the inner ring and the catwalks above the courtyard.

Fog rolled in over the walls as if someone had poured it.

Night came with it, thick and wrong, carrying a current that smelled like wet metal and the peel of ozone just before lightning. The first drone arrived as a whisper, rotors tuned to slide under hearing; the second cam
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    Velia / Venom)The world fractured into light.Velia’s code ate through the generator’s heart faster than she’d calculated. The conduits screamed in pitch-shifting agony, and every circuit in the compound turned into a fuse. The smell was copper, ozone, and heat—pure, violent chemistry.She didn’t think. She moved.“Override sequence—manual,” she shouted, fingers flying across the panel. The emergency gate’s locking clamps shrieked, struggling to obey her commands while half of them melted in place. If she could isolate the blast behind reinforced containment, the explosion wouldn’t roll through the entire base. It would take her lab—and her data—with it.Venom’s hand clamped around her wrist. “Velia, stop!”She didn’t.“You can’t stop it from up here,” she said. “I can slow it. That’s enough.”His grip tightened. “Enough for who?”“For you,” she said, and tore her arm free.A warning alarm blared from the core chamber. Temperature threshold breached. The readout jumped from amber to

  • Venom's Plaything - A Dark MC Shifter Romance   Siege of Shadows

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    Harper / VeliaThey put me in a room that reflected me back like a bad joke.No bars. No chains. Just light and glass and my own face looking wrong from every angle.I sat on the bench and watched myself breathe. It echoed in the mirrored walls—my chest rising and falling a fraction out of sync with the other Harpers. The air smelled like bleach and old cold. The camera in the upper corner wore a dark shell, like an eye with a film over it. If I stared long enough, the black dot pulsed. I stopped staring.There was a tremor in my left hand I couldn’t account for. I’ve had tremors before—too much coffee, too little rest, the debt of days spent closing wounds that didn’t want to close—but this was a new frequency. It didn’t shake when I looked at it; it shook when I didn’t.“Harper.”Velia’s voice carried through the speaker before the door opened, low and controlled, that scientist’s cadence she gets when she’s two breaths from breaking. Then the lock hissed and she was there, framed i

  • Venom's Plaything - A Dark MC Shifter Romance   Internal Affairs

    Venom)The compound breathed in shallow little gasps, like it knew it was being watched.Every door was triple-locked. Every corridor camera switched to manual eyes-on. I moved through it all with the sense that the walls themselves were leaning closer to listen. After the drone explosion, after the cane and the ice-blue eyes in the static, quiet wasn’t comfort anymore. It was camouflage.I tightened everything. Blade had squads on rotating four-hour cycles, overlapping by thirty minutes so no handoff could be exploited. Ghost had point on internal sweeps, eyes for anything out of place, anyone breathing wrong. Hacker and the tech crew ran a live map of our power grid on the war-room wall. When a light flickered, the entire room turned its head like a pack scenting a stranger.I could feel Velia in the lab three floors down—more a heat in my bones than a thought. She kept working, jaw set, the glow of her screens painting her skin that soft blue that always does something to me. But e

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    VeliaThe rain hadn’t stopped. It came down in silver sheets, relentless, whispering across the compound roof like a language only ghosts could speak.Venom had come back hours ago—blood on his jaw, eyes distant, voice low when he told her to stay inside. Stay in the lab. Lock the doors. Then he was gone again, disappearing into the storm with that clipped, predatory focus that always made her heart twist between fear and something far more dangerous.Now she sat alone in the glow of her monitors, the hum of the servers like static in her veins. The world outside was chaos, but here… here was quiet.And in the quiet, the ghosts spoke.The inbox blinked.At first, she thought it was another system alert, maybe a border warning from Hacker’s network. But the sender field froze her blood.From: Unknown Encrypted NodeSubject: To My Brightest CreationHer fingers hovered over the mouse. The subject line pulsed, as if breathing. Against every rational instinct, she clicked.My dearest Veli

  • Venom's Plaything - A Dark MC Shifter Romance   Hunter's Instinct

    VenomThe compound slept like a wounded beast—quiet, but never still. Somewhere in the dark, the air hummed with too many heartbeats. Machines. Fear. The residue of blood.I’d grown used to silence between the storms, but tonight it was wrong. Too heavy. Too still.Velia stood by the window, barefoot, the pale wash of the security lights painting her skin silver. Her lab coat hung loose around her shoulders. I could smell the faint ozone of disinfectant and something sharper—adrenaline.“You haven’t slept,” I said quietly.Her hand tightened around the mug she wasn’t drinking from. “Neither have you.”I stepped closer, caught the reflection of her face in the glass. There was something fragile in it tonight—not weakness, but awareness. The kind that comes when the body remembers danger even if the mind denies it.“It’s just noise,” I said, lying to both of us. “Your nerves are still raw. After what happened last week—”“Don’t.” Her voice cracked like a whip, then softened. “Don’t make

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