Author’s POVThe room no longer felt like a place where work happened. It felt like something deeper had shifted beneath it, something sharper, darker, and far more dangerous. Screens continued to run, data continued to move, and voices still carried across the space, but none of it held the same meaning anymore. Everything in that room had started revolving around a single point. Aadhya. And the man who had taken her.Advik stood near the table, not moving, not speaking, but not at rest either. There was a tension beneath his silence, something tightly coiled, waiting. The kind of stillness that did not calm—it prepared. His jaw was set in a way Kade had only seen a handful of times before, and every time it had led to something irreversible. His hands remained steady, but they were not relaxed.Kade watched him for a long moment before finally speaking, careful not to push too hard. “We’ve gone through every external trace again,” he said, keeping his tone controlled. “No clear move
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