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The dust was still floating in the air from the broken wall when a slim figure in armor stepped calmly through the jagged hole. Kayla stood on the second-floor landing, her cold eyes scanning the big room below. Then she jumped over the marble railing and dropped two full stories, landing without a sound like it was nothing. Kenan laughed loudly from the middle of the foyer, turning away from the shocked twins. "You really thought you were so smart, huh?" he sneered, straightening his fancy jacket. "We knew Sergey was dead before we even got to the gate. And we knew his kids had teamed up with Player 001 right away." Kayla stepped closer, staring straight at Ara, who was slowly pushing herself up off the floor. "Hand over the flash drive with the NexMind files, Ara," she said flatly. "You don’t have enough health left to survive this." Ara’s hand moved to her pocket without thinking. Right before Kayla had smashed her through the wall, she’d quickly hidden the drive there. She

chapter 132

THIRD PERSONThe morning sun came in through the curtains.She lay still for a moment, listening. Noah's breathing from across the room. The house settling. Somewhere downstairs, she heard the sound of a door opening and then quiet footsteps. Nikolai was already up, moving like he wasn't trying not to wake anyone.She pressed her hand to her stomach, feeling the two heartbeats.She got up carefully, dressed and went downstairs.He was in the kitchen with coffee and a newspaper he wasn't reading. He looked up when she appeared in the doorway."Noah?" He asked "Still asleep." He nodded, poured a second cup and pushed it toward her without being asked. She sat across from him and wrapped her hands around it and for a moment they just existed in the same kitchen without saying anything. "My father called," Nikolai said, and she looked up."Early. He wanted to discuss Arande's pregnancy and the divorce timeline and several other things I didn't let him finish." He set down his cup. "I t

chapter 133.

THIRD PERSONThe supermarket was Noah's idea of an excellent outing.He had an organised list in his head of things to get. He knew what he wanted and in what order and he moved through the aisles with focus, so full of energy, as he had been waiting for exactly this kind of agency. Cereal first, obviously. Then the fruit section. Then a detour to the biscuit aisle that was not on anyone's approved itinerary.Nikolai followed. Arianna walked slightly behind both of them and watched."Not those ones," Noah said, pointing at a box of cereal."Why not?" He looked up with wide eyes."They go soggy. Get the other ones." He pointed at another cereal.Nikolai moved to the next shelf. "These?"Noah examined the box. "Yes. Those."The transaction was complete. Nikolai put them in the basket and they moved on. Arianna was still recalibrating.There had been a version of Nikolai in her memory — it was certain, and built from five years of fear of everything she had been running from. That versi

chapter 134

THIRD PERSONKonstantin arrived without calling first.That was the first sign that things had shifted. He had always called ahead — it was one of his principles, one of the many small ways he maintained the sense that his movements were deliberate rather than reactive. Showing up unannounced was for people who had run out of options.The car pulled up to the Calder Street house at half past two.Petrov's men were already outside and they moved before Konstantin had fully stepped out. They simply positioned themselves in a way that communicated that the door was not open. Konstantin looked at them with the expression of a man unaccustomed to being stopped and not yet ready to show what that cost him.Nikolai was upstairs when the call came through.He stood at the window and looked at his father on the street below. He looked older in the morning light, and something else that Nikolai recognized after a moment as the age of a man whose plan has not gone the way he intended.He went d

chapter 135

THIRD PERSONThe board meeting lasted four hours.Nikolai sat at the head of the table and watched forty years of his father's architecture come apart with patience, like someone who had been waiting for this room for a long time. The board members came in with varying degrees of reluctance — some eager, some cautious, some performing neutrality with careful blankness, for those who had bet on the wrong side and were hoping nobody had noticed.Nobody performed anything for very long in that room.The recordings Viktor had assembled were presented in sections. Petrov managed the technology. The lawyers managed the room. Nikolai managed nothing except his own stillness. Konstantin's voice filled the boardroom at intervals — his actual voice, from actual conversations, in the languages of a man who believed himself unrecordable.By the third hour, three of the longest-serving board members had requested a recess.It was granted.In the corridor outside, Nikolai stood at the window and d

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THIRD PERSONThe board meeting lasted four hours.Nikolai sat at the head of the table and watched forty years of his father's architecture come apart with patience, like someone who had been waiting for this room for a long time. The board members came in with varying degrees of reluctance — some eager, some cautious, some performing neutrality with careful blankness, for those who had bet on the wrong side and were hoping nobody had noticed.Nobody performed anything for very long in that room.The recordings Viktor had assembled were presented in sections. Petrov managed the technology. The lawyers managed the room. Nikolai managed nothing except his own stillness. Konstantin's voice filled the boardroom at intervals — his actual voice, from actual conversations, in the languages of a man who believed himself unrecordable.By the third hour, three of the longest-serving board members had requested a recess.It was granted.In the corridor outside, Nikolai stood at the window and d

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THIRD PERSONThe board meeting lasted four hours.Nikolai sat at the head of the table and watched forty years of his father's architecture come apart with patience, like someone who had been waiting for this room for a long time. The board members came in with varying degrees of reluctance — some eager, some cautious, some performing neutrality with careful blankness, for those who had bet on the wrong side and were hoping nobody had noticed.Nobody performed anything for very long in that room.The recordings Viktor had assembled were presented in sections. Petrov managed the technology. The lawyers managed the room. Nikolai managed nothing except his own stillness. Konstantin's voice filled the boardroom at intervals — his actual voice, from actual conversations, in the languages of a man who believed himself unrecordable.By the third hour, three of the longest-serving board members had requested a recess.It was granted.In the corridor outside, Nikolai stood at the window and d

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THIRD PERSONThe board meeting lasted four hours.Nikolai sat at the head of the table and watched forty years of his father's architecture come apart with patience, like someone who had been waiting for this room for a long time. The board members came in with varying degrees of reluctance — some eager, some cautious, some performing neutrality with careful blankness, for those who had bet on the wrong side and were hoping nobody had noticed.Nobody performed anything for very long in that room.The recordings Viktor had assembled were presented in sections. Petrov managed the technology. The lawyers managed the room. Nikolai managed nothing except his own stillness. Konstantin's voice filled the boardroom at intervals — his actual voice, from actual conversations, in the languages of a man who believed himself unrecordable.By the third hour, three of the longest-serving board members had requested a recess.It was granted.In the corridor outside, Nikolai stood at the window and d

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THIRD PERSONThe board meeting lasted four hours.Nikolai sat at the head of the table and watched forty years of his father's architecture come apart with patience, like someone who had been waiting for this room for a long time. The board members came in with varying degrees of reluctance — some eager, some cautious, some performing neutrality with careful blankness, for those who had bet on the wrong side and were hoping nobody had noticed.Nobody performed anything for very long in that room.The recordings Viktor had assembled were presented in sections. Petrov managed the technology. The lawyers managed the room. Nikolai managed nothing except his own stillness. Konstantin's voice filled the boardroom at intervals — his actual voice, from actual conversations, in the languages of a man who believed himself unrecordable.By the third hour, three of the longest-serving board members had requested a recess.It was granted.In the corridor outside, Nikolai stood at the window and d

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THIRD PERSONThe board meeting lasted four hours.Nikolai sat at the head of the table and watched forty years of his father's architecture come apart with patience, like someone who had been waiting for this room for a long time. The board members came in with varying degrees of reluctance — some eager, some cautious, some performing neutrality with careful blankness, for those who had bet on the wrong side and were hoping nobody had noticed.Nobody performed anything for very long in that room.The recordings Viktor had assembled were presented in sections. Petrov managed the technology. The lawyers managed the room. Nikolai managed nothing except his own stillness. Konstantin's voice filled the boardroom at intervals — his actual voice, from actual conversations, in the languages of a man who believed himself unrecordable.By the third hour, three of the longest-serving board members had requested a recess.It was granted.In the corridor outside, Nikolai stood at the window and d

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