Sophia’s POV The submarine’s missile launcher gleamed in the rain, my father’s former lover, Dr. Maria Cole, standing at its helm, her eyes blazing with vengeance, her voice a chilling snarl: “The cipher’s not done.” The clearing trembled, the EMP’s pulse fading, leaving us exposed as the child—Liam’s brother—clung to Lily, his cries softening, a spark of hope in his eyes. My heart pounded, the journal and three drives clutched against my chest, their weight a tether to my father’s cipher—my memories of Orion’s stars, the key that had broadcast the Syndicate’s secrets, dismantling their empire with the microchip’s virus and the clearing’s EMP. Liam’s arms were around me, his blood soaking my hospital gown, his breath shallow but his love a fire that burned through my fear. His kisses in his penthouse, his vows under the city’s glow, were my lifeline, mending the trust fractured by his family’s betrayals. My mother and uncle, wounded but fierce, fired at the submarine, while Lily, her
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