~063Inheritance of FireThe sound of glass shattering snapped Bella out of her sleep.She shot upright in bed, reaching instinctively for the small remote on the nightstand. One tap, and the silent alarm buzzed through the estate's emergency channels.Xavier was already moving beside her, pulling on a robe, his expression deadly calm."Stay here," he said, kissing her forehead quickly. "Don't move until I signal."But Bella was already climbing out of bed. "No. If it's what I think it is, I need to see it myself."---Ten minutes later, the vault room beneath the Bluefield library was in chaos.The reinforced security door had been forced open-melted, it seemed, by something too precise for heat and too clean for explosives. Inside, several of the encrypted archive cases were cracked open, data cores yanked from their casings and scattered like broken bones.Elodie crouched by the wreckage, her eyes flicking over the damage."This wasn't random," she said. "They weren't after the mon
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