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Twenty-One: The Savior’s Lie

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Twenty-One: The Savior’s Lie

Zacian POV

The observation room hummed with the low buzz of monitors, but my focus locked on the one-way glass. Cecilia slumped in that godforsaken chair, her body a map of fresh torment. Phase two had just ended, but the echoes of it still vibrated in the air. I watched the replay in my mind, matching the memory to the visual of her battered form. I remembered the way Marco had snapped those black clamps onto her ribs, the cruel precision of it.

She had tried to laugh it off, calling it a static shock, but the reality had been written all over her face when the current hit. Then the second jolt, the one where she screamed until her voice broke, had twisted something deep in my gut.

She was trembling in the chair now, the aftermath of the violence leaving her muscles twitching. Her damp shirt clung to every curve like a second skin, outlining the heave of her breasts

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