Chapter One Hundred and Eighteen— The Second NameThe lights didn’t flicker.They died.One second Mason’s name was glowing on every screen in the command room.The next—Darkness swallowed everything.No alarms.No countdown.No skyline.Just the sound of Ariana’s breathing.And Mason’s.And somewhere in the black, her father whispering, “No… no, no, no.”Then the emergency lights snapped on.Red.Low.Bleeding across the walls.Genesis’ voice didn’t return.The Collective was silent.Continuum was gone.Not paused.Gone.“What just happened?” Mason asked, but his voice wasn’t steady anymore.Ariana was staring at him.At his face.At the way he looked just as confused as she felt.“Say something,” she demanded. “Tell me you knew about this.”“Knew about what?” he shot back. “That apparently I was born in some secret underground lab?”Her father staggered toward the central console, slamming his hands against dead glass.“It shouldn’t be able to do that,” he muttered. “It can’t isol
Last Updated : 2026-02-24 Read more