The Ties That Binds のすべてのチャプター: チャプター 91 - チャプター 100

Savannah pressed her palm against the cold metal door, her breath unsteady as she tried to quiet the storm inside her chest. The dim emergency lights lining the underground hall flickered like dying embers, casting flashes of red against the steel walls. Every sound echoed too loudly every drip of water, every distant hum of machinery and yet all she heard was her own heartbeat pounding like a fist against her ribs. Jackson stood beside her, shoulders tense, jaw locked. He hadn’t spoken since Cole relayed the last piece of information the part none of them wanted to believe, and yet all of them already knew was true. “We need to move,” Jackson said at last, his voice low, strained. Savannah swallowed hard. Her throat felt like sandpaper. “I know.” But she didn’t move. Not yet. Not when the truth they had uncovered was still burning through her veins like poison.Cole stepped forward, his expression unreadable under the dim red lights. “Savannah… I need you to prepare yourself. What w

Savannah heard the door slam before she saw Jackson. Heavy footsteps hammered down the east corridor of Sterling Tower like thunder rolling inside steel walls. She rose from the edge of the medical cot Cole had forced her to sit on, her pulse tightening as Jackson appeared in the doorway jaw clenched, hair disheveled, clothes still streaked with dust and server-room soot. He looked like a man walking out of a battlefield, and in a way, he was.“Savannah.” His voice was low, hoarse from shouting at someone or something moments earlier.She moved toward him, but he raised a hand, not to stop her, but to steady himself. There was something different about him. A rawness. A fury that had cooled into something sharper, colder, more dangerous.“What happened?” she whispered, but she already knew. Harrison. The failed data drop. The truth drive Cole found. It was all building toward a moment like this one.Jackson closed the distance between them in three strides and cupped her face with bot

Savannah grabbed the nearest railing as the floor lurched again, a deep mechanical groan rolling through the entire level like the building itself was in pain. Dust rained down from the ceiling pipes. Sirens blared. Red emergency lights strobed in violent pulses, turning every shadow into something alive. Jackson steadied her instantly, one hand gripping her arm, the other anchoring himself against a support beam as the server hub trembled underfoot.Cole stumbled forward, bracing himself against a column. “He triggered a full-system purge! If that countdown reaches zero, every server on this floor will wipe itself permanently!”Harrison stood across the room, unbothered by the chaos, his finger still resting on the trigger of the remote he’d used. His smile widened in a way that made Savannah’s stomach twist. “Exactly,” he said calmly. “And this time, there’s no override. No last-minute heroics. Everything you built, Jackson… everything you think you control… it burns tonight.”Jacks

The floor trembled beneath Savannah’s boots, a deep, bone-shaking vibration that rattled the glass panels lining the walls. Red emergency lights snapped on overhead, flooding the room in a pulsing scarlet glow. A siren wailed from someplace deep within the tower low, mechanical, rising in intensity like a warning from the building itself.Savannah’s heart thundered, but she didn’t flinch. She stood rooted beside Jackson, shoulder brushing his, eyes locked on Harrison across the room as the vibrations intensified.“You really thought you could stop me?” Harrison called over the noise, his voice slicing through the chaos with chilling confidence. He stood on the raised platform near the central terminal, his hand casually resting on the control tablet, every line of his body relaxed mocking.Jackson took one step forward. “I’m done playing with you, Harrison. Shut it down.”“Or what?” Harrison taunted. “You’ll lecture me about legacy? Family honor? Spare me. None of that matters anymore

“Savannah, stay behind me.”Jackson’s voice cut cleanly through the smoke-filled corridor, low and commanding, but Savannah pushed forward anyway, brushing past his arm as the alarms shrieked overhead. Red hazard lights pulsed against the metal walls, washing everything in a frantic glow.“I’m not staying behind,” she said, breath sharp. “Not when he’s doing this because of me.”Jackson shot her a look half frustration, half something fierce and protective. “This isn’t about blame. It’s about survival. Harrison activated a full-system purge. If we don’t shut it down in time ”“I know,” she said, cutting him off. “Then we move.”Cole jogged up beside them, swiping sweat from his brow. His breath came hard, uneven. “There’s been another breach. He’s not just purging data he’s rewriting the entire security core.”Jackson froze. “He’s WHAT?”Cole nodded grimly. “He’s shifting blame again. He’s making it look like Savannah manually accessed the restricted vaults. When this goes public, she