Chapter 27The abandoned research facility loomed like a concrete mausoleum under the gray morning sky, its broken windows staring like empty eyes. Ava clutched Jeffrey’s hand as they stepped through the rusted gates, her other hand pressed to her abdomen where the twins kicked with unnatural urgency. The mother code burned hotter in her veins, a living fire that made every step a battle. Samuel’s encrypted message replayed in her mind: I’m not dead… Run, sister.Jeffrey’s grip was iron, his jaw set in that obsessive, protective line she had come to crave. “Stay behind me. Whatever Madam Jones wants, she doesn’t get you or our babies.”Madam Jones waited in the central atrium, elegant even in defeat, flanked by a handful of remaining loyalists and glowing medical pods. The two hybrid clones floated in their artificial wombs, pulsing faintly. “Ava, darling. You brought the wrong man.”Before Ava could respond, shadows moved. Samuel emerged from a side corridor, alive, bandaged, eyes ha
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