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CHAPTER 41

"What the hell is this, Victor? A grave? You're building a grave for our sons."Elodie’s voice echoed off the raw obsidian slabs, sharp enough to cut. She stood at the threshold of the subterranean vault, her knuckles white as she gripped the doorframe. The air down here tasted like iron and wet stone."It’s a bunker, Elodie. It’s safety." Victor didn't turn around. He ran a hand over the dampening stone, the silver veins in the rock sucking the ambient heat from the room. "The International Coalition is moving. Sebastian hasn't looked me in the eye for three days. The humans are tracking the Prophet’s signature from orbit. If we don't put them behind three feet of obsidian and silver-dampening rock, they’re gone.""They aren't luggage you can just lock in a safe!" She stepped into the room, her boots clicking against the polished black floor. "They need to see the sun. They need to understand the weight of the air, not this... this tomb.""The sun is a targeting beacon for Aegis." Vi

CHAPTER 42

"Where the hell is Vane? I want a location, Zack. Now!"Victor slammed his palm against the steel map table. The hollow thud echoed through the underground command center, rattling the few remaining monitors that hadn't been fried by the wipe. His knuckles were raw, the skin split and weeping a thin trail of crimson onto the digital display.Zack didn't look up from the tablet in his hands. His fingers flew across the screen, his face pale under the harsh LED strips. "I’m tracing the encrypted pings from the fortress crash, Vic. He didn't go back to the Capitol. The coward scrambled his signal near the Atlantic shelf. There’s a ghost facility... Project Trench. It’s a deep-sea rig, four thousand meters down. He’s gone to ground with the Source.""The DNA sample?" Victor’s jaw tightened, his teeth grinding with a sound like shifting gravel. "He’s going to try to clone another Zero. I’m not letting that happen. Scramble the strike team. Only the elite. We move in twenty minutes.""Wait,

CHAPTER 43

"What the hell is that thing, Victor? Get it away from the nursery!"Elodie’s voice tore through the foyer, sharp as a glass shard. She stood at the base of the grand staircase, her fingers white-knuckled around the banister. Her gaze locked onto the shivering, silver-etched figure slumped against Victor’s shoulder. The woman smelled of stagnant seawater and old ozone."It’s not a thing, Elodie. It’s your mother." Victor didn't stop. He kicked the heavy oak doors shut behind him, the thud vibrating through the floorboards. Water from his soaked tactical gear pooled on the rug, dark and oily. "Move. She’s crashing. I need a medical kit and the high-output heaters. Now!""My mother is dead! She’s been dead for twenty years!" Elodie’s voice hit a frantic pitch. She didn't move. She stared at the woman—Selene—whose skin pulsed with a rhythmic, sickly silver light."Twenty-five years in a tank at the bottom of the trench says otherwise." Victor shoved past her, his boots squelching. He hea

CHAPTER 44

"What the hell took you so long to pick a side, Sebastian? You waiting for the property value to drop?"Victor didn't look back. He shoved a heavy mahogany sideboard against the library doors, the wood screaming against the marble floor. Outside, the night was a rhythmic thud of flash-bangs and the wet, guttural tearing of wolves hitting the perimeter. The International Wolf Coalition wasn't here to talk. They were here to sanitize the lineage."I like the drama, Victor. Makes the betrayal taste better," Sebastian Cole spat. He flicked a splatter of blood off his cuff, his chest heaving. His tactical jacket was shredded, exposing a deep, jagged gash across his ribs that wept dark crimson. "But the Coalition didn't mention they were bringing silver-laced gas. That's a bit much, even for my standards.""Silver gas? Those bastards," Elodie hissed. She was backed against the far wall, the Prophet twin strapped to her chest in a soot-stained sling. She clutched a silver-tipped submachine g

CHAPTER 45

"What the hell is happening to the sky? Zack, look at the sun!"Elodie’s voice cracked over the roar of the wind. She stood on the balcony of the highest tower, her boots crunching on the frost that was rapidly spreading across the stone. Above, the sun was being eaten. A black disc bit into the fiery edge of the star, turning the world a bruised, sickly violet. The shadows on the ground weren't fuzzy anymore; they were sharp, jagged lines that seemed to vibrate."The twins, Elodie! Look at them!"Zack pointed to the stone altar where the infants lay. They weren't crying. They weren't even moving. The Prophet twin was radiating a light so white it hurt to look at, while the Shadow twin seemed to be sucking the very color out of the air around him. The stone floor beneath them began to spiderweb. Cracks raced outward, glowing with an internal heat."It’s too much for them," Elodie hissed. She lunged forward, grabbing the Prophet. His skin was like a hot coal. "They’re hitting the peak.

CHAPTER 46

"The evolution of man will not be stopped by a beast in a flea-bitten coat!" Vane roared.The exo-suit’s arm punched through the cockpit glass from the inside, reaching for Victor’s throat. Victor snapped his jaws shut. The hydraulic joint of the suit’s wrist crumpled under his teeth. Oil, hot and bitter, sprayed across his face. He spat the mangled metal into the slipstream.Inside the cabin, the Prophet twin was a sun. The golden light was so intense it began to melt the plastic dashboard, the scent of burning chemicals thick even through the cracks in the hull."Zack! Hold the boy! Don't let go!"Elodie’s feet skidded on the frozen stone of the tower. The world below was a chaos of muzzle flashes and wolf howls, but her focus was pinned to the black hole in the sky. She gripped the Shadow twin against her chest. The infant was cold—deathly cold."I can't... ahh! Elodie, he’s freezing the blood in my veins!" Zack staggered, his hands turning a ghostly blue where they touched the chi

CHAPTER 47

"You broke the sky, Vic. Look at this."Elodie stood on the ridge, her boots crunching on something that sounded like crystal. It wasn't rock. It was a tree. Or, it had been. The massive oak that usually stood guard at the valley’s entrance was now translucent, jagged, and cold. Glass. A monument to the Shadow twin’s raw power.Victor didn't look at the trees. He stared at the valley floor. Three hundred wolves were huddled there, pacing in erratic, nervous circles. They weren't fighting. They were whimpering. It sounded like a kennel of strays, not an elite pack of apex predators."They're scared," Victor rasped. He wiped a smear of dried blood from his forehead, his knuckles still raw from the wreckage of the ship. "I'm trying to reach them, Elodie. I'm hitting the link, but there’s nothing. Just static.""Try harder." She clutched the Shadow twin tighter to her chest. The infant was unnervingly silent, his dark eyes fixed on the glass forest.Victor stood tall, chest out, and let o

CHAPTER 48

"What the hell is wrong with him, Victor? He’s like a piece of ice."Elodie’s voice shook as she pulled the small, swaddled bundle closer to her chest. Malakai didn't squirm. He didn't let out the hungry, rhythmic wail of a newborn. He just stared up with those bottomless black eyes, his skin a pale, porcelain grey that looked translucent under the dim emergency lights of the estate. The nursery smelled of ozone and the metallic tang of dried blood from the previous night's slaughter."He won't take the bottle. He won't take anything," Victor spat, pacing the length of the room. His boots crunched on fallen plaster. Every few seconds, he rubbed his temples, his jaw tight enough to snap. "Zack said the vitals are fine, but the temperature... he’s dropping, Elodie. He’s freezing from the inside out.""He’s starving, Victor! Can’t you see it? Ahh! Look at his hands."Malakai’s tiny fingers were curled into tight claws, the nails tinged with a sickly violet. He wasn't wasting away like a

CHAPTER 49

"Kaelen."The sound was a dry rasp, barely louder than the hum of the air filtration unit. Elodie froze, the silver spoon clattering against the ceramic bowl. Lyra sat upright in the center of the obsidian-lined nursery, her spine straight as a soldier’s. Three months. No child spoke at three months."Lyra? Baby, what did you say?" Elodie dropped to her knees, her hands trembling as she reached for the infant’s small, pale shoulders."Kaelen." The girl’s eyes weren't focused on her mother. They were fixed on the far corner of the ceiling, where the shadows pooled thick and heavy. Her pupils were gone, replaced by solid, molten gold. "The dawn of Kaelen. He waits in the iron.""Victor! Victor, get in here!" Elodie’s voice tore through the heavy doors, echoing down the corridor.The heavy thud of combat boots hammered against the stone. Victor burst through the entrance, his shirt clinging to his back with sweat, his jaw set in a hard, jagged line. He didn't ask questions. He didn't hav

CHAPTER 50

"Watch your step, it’s a long goddamn way down if you slip."Victor’s voice echoed against the translucent alloy of the spiral staircase. He didn't look back. His fingers, tipped with black claws, dug into the wall for balance. The air changed the deeper they went. It lost the smell of pine and wet earth, replaced by a sterile, recycled chill that tasted like a hospital wing."I've got the kids, Victor. Just keep moving," Elodie snapped. She adjusted the double sling against her chest. Malakai was a cold weight against her heart, his breathing shallow, while Lyra’s warmth pulsed in a steady, golden rhythm."Zack, you still with us or did you faint back at the landing?" Victor’s boots made a hollow, metallic clack on the steps."My heart is currently in my throat, but yeah, I’m here," Zack panted. He was clutching a high-lumen tactical light, the beam cutting through the gloom. "The atmospheric pressure is rising. We’re at least half a mile below the estate. This shouldn't be here. The

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