CHAPTER 31: MEMORY HUNT

“Did you ever love me?” Solene’s question hung in the haze of smoke and blood.Lucien’s heartbeat thundered beneath his vest. He didn’t answer, couldn’t. Instead, he kissed her, hard and raw, like it was their last gasp of air.INFILTRATION HALLWAY – 3:22 a.m.Solene, pistol still warm, as Lucien closes the gap, his hand steady on the weapon he dropped.Solene’s voice trembled. “If you did say it.”Lucien murmured against her lips. “I’m still here.”They stood, breath mingling, smoke swirling like ghosts. But Lucien’s eyes flicked to the detonator he dropped now silent. Gunfire echoed in the compound’s depths. The child he’d vanished. And the kill-switch? Still active.A burst of gunfire rattles the corridor’s steel doors. The compound’s power shudders, then blinks lights flicker. They move as one.Lucien whispers: “Security’s collapsing.”Solene nods, voice low: “Then we split.”She heads deeper into the compound; he goes left toward the child’s voice echoing in the network, signs of

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CHAPTER THIRTY TWO: ENGAGED TO SURVIVE

“Don’t say it unless you mean it.”Solene’s voice cut through the silence like a blade sharp, raw, final.Lucien stood across the hotel suite, blood drying on his jaw, his jacket still reeking of smoke and gunpowder. He’d just said it.The word she never expected.“Fiancée.”LOCATION: NEW EDEN – UNMARKED LUXURY SUITETIME: 10:14 a.m.Lucien didn’t blink. “I meant it.”Solene laughed once. It wasn’t pretty. “You mean it like a body means rigor mortis. Too late to matter.”She stalked to the window, gripping the glass with white knuckles. “So what now? You parade me around as your shield? Put a ring on me and dare the boy to pull the trigger?”Lucien: “Exactly.”CUT TO: LUXURY SUITE – BEDROOMLucien followed. Slowly. The space between them snapped with something unsaid grief, heat, need.Lucien: “The Romano deal's collapsing. Bianca’s talking again. Angelo’s bleeding loyalty out his throat and the child’s name is spreading through backchannels like fire.”Solene (turning): “And your sol

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CHAPTER 31: MEMORY HUNT

CHAPTER THIRTY TWO: ENGAGED TO SURVIVE