The Black Citadel. Sector 1: The Sovereign's Suite. One Week Later.The world had learned to breathe again.For the first time in modern history, the news networks weren't broadcasting death tolls or tracking mutated Titan monsters. They were broadcasting the reconstruction. Under the absolute, undisputed authority of The Order of the Shield, Earth was uniting not out of fear, but out of awe.In the sprawling, glass-walled suite at the apex of the Black Citadel, the morning sun poured over the tangled dark grey sheets of the oversized bed.Sebastian Sterling stood by the floor-to-ceiling window, a steaming cup of black coffee in his left hand. He wore loose dark sweatpants, his broad, scarred chest bare to the morning light. The terrifying violet-and-gold veins that mapped his skin were dormant now, resting just beneath the surface like a beautiful, lethal tattoo.He took a slow sip of his coffee, his slate-grey right eye watching the distant ocean waves."You're thinking too loudly,
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