Victor’s POVThe hospital corridor was still in my mind when I returned to the estate. The flatline, the unfinished word, the name that never came out completely. Moretti had tried to tell me something before he died. He had almost said it.Ma…That single sound kept repeating in my head.Someone had survived who shouldn’t have.I walked into my study and closed the door behind me. The room was quiet, the way I preferred it. The city stretched out beyond the windows, lights scattered across the skyline like a grid I had spent decades controlling. Normally, the sight calmed me but tonight it didn’t.I sat behind the desk and replayed the conversation in the ICU again.The First Order.It was supposed to be gone, Destroyed twenty years ago. Hard copies burned, digital records erased, every trace removed. Only a few men had ever seen it, and most of those men were dead now.Moretti had been one of the last, now he was gone too. Which meant that somewhere, someone else knew the truth.I r
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