All Chapters of When Fire Meets Grace : Chapter 21 - Chapter 25

The night air was thick with betrayal.Adanna stood in the dimly lit corridor, her trembling fingers clutching the old dossier she had found behind the false wall in Victor’s study. Her breath came in sharp bursts, every inhale a fight against the pain in her chest.The papers inside the file bore the crest of an intelligence agency she thought long gone—an emblem from her past life in the covert world she had tried so hard to escape.Her husband’s name was printed there.“Agent V. K. Daren — Codename: Falcon.”Adanna’s heart broke quietly. The man she had loved, the one who had nursed her wounds, who whispered promises of forever under moonlight, had been living a second life right beside her.She could barely move. Every memory of his touch now burned like acid against her skin.Footsteps echoed in the hallway measured, confident, too familiar.Victor.He stepped into the light, his expression calm, almost unreadable, though his eyes betrayed the flicker of guilt.“You found it,” he

The sea had long swallowed the lights of Port Viera behind them. Now, as dawn bled over the horizon, the water looked like liquid steel calm on the surface, cold and endless beneath.Victor steered their small vessel toward the coordinates glowing on the navigation screen. Adanna sat at the bow, hair tangled by the salt wind, her gaze locked on the horizon like she could burn holes through time itself.She hadn’t spoken much since they escaped the Syndicate ambush. Her mother’s face haunted her that impossible face staring up through the smoke and fire.Victor watched her silently. He wanted to reach out, to say something that would ease the weight pressing down on her. But there were no words for this kind of grief the kind that came with hope.“The Echelon Vault is off the grid,” he finally said, breaking the silence. “Hidden beneath an abandoned observatory in the Azores. If anyone has access to Orpheus, it’s there.”Adanna didn’t turn to look at him. “And if my mother’s there too?

The cold hum of the underground vault vibrated beneath Adanna’s boots.Lines of light ran along the walls not power conduits, but encrypted streams of data humming like living veins.Victor’s breath clouded beside her, the temperature dropping as they descended deeper into the abandoned Echelon Facility.“This place feels like a tomb,” he murmured.“It is,” Adanna replied, voice soft but resolute. “The tomb of every secret they thought they could bury.”At the heart of the chamber lay a glass monolith, black as obsidian. Within it shimmered a faint pulse rhythmic, like a heartbeat.The inscription read: PROJECT GENESIS – ACCESS RESTRICTED.Victor knelt, brushing away layers of dust. “Your mother’s signature is here… but look another name.”He hesitated.“Grace Vance.”Adanna froze. That name she’d seen it before, buried deep in corrupted data fragments.Her heart quickened. “Grace Vance,” she whispered. “She was… the one who began all this.”Victor’s eyes met hers. “The woman from the