MIRAJerry's phone buzzes. “I need to take this Mi.. I'll be right back.”He steps out to make a secure call. I pace around the room for a moment and move to the window, watching the Paris streetlights flicker in the drizzle of the rain. My mind is a storm of heavy thoughts and plans. Find Aurora and make her pay, find Adrian, clear Jackson’s name, and restore everything to the way it used to be, or at least try.The hallway outside is suddenly too quiet. A knot tightens in my stomach. I turn just as the lights in the room flicker..once, twice, then die off. Darkness spreads through the room.“Jer...Jerry?” I call out. “Did you...” I stutterThe door bursts open. Two men in black flood the room masks, gloves, fast and silent. I barely have time to scream before a cloth is pressed over my nose and mouth, the chemical sting burning my eyes and into my lungs. I claw at them, fight, kick, but my limbs grow heavy, my vision blurring into streaks of shadow. One voice cuts through the haze:
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