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Chapter 81 Agent Cruz’s Pov

Richard stepped between us and said, “What the hell are you doing?”Robert looked at Lila.“What kind of door?”Elena pushed her daughter behind her.“You stay away from her.”Robert ignored her.“What kind?”Lila’s voice came from behind her mother.“Locked.”Robert went completely still.Mara whispered, “No.”I looked at her.“What?”She shook her head.“Mara.”Her eyes filled.“What?”“Anchor.”I stared.“What about it?”“The anchor was never supposed to remember.”My chest tightened.Robert’s face changed.Mara looked at me.“The anchor kept the others stable. That was the theory. You could expose the carrier. Trigger the catalyst. Change the environment. But the anchor remained fixed.”Rory frowned.“And?”“If the anchor remembered…”She stopped.Bennett stepped closer.“What happens?”Mara looked toward the lower level.“I don’t know.”Robert answered.“The sequence reverses.”Silence.Mara turned.“No.”Robert’s face had gone hard.“Yes.”“You told us that failed.”“It did.”“W

Chapter 82 Agent Cruz’s Pov

Mara grabbed my wrist and said, “No.”I looked at her.She shook her head.“He wants you to.”“I know.”“Then don’t.”“I need to know.”“You need to survive.”“What happens if I press yes?”“I don’t know.”“Then maybe nothing.”Robert laughed once.I looked at him.“What?”“Nothing in this programme ever meant nothing.”Useful.Lila spoke.“Press no.”Everyone looked at her.She stared at me.“Why?”“Because the door isn’t locked anymore.”My skin prickled.“What door?”She pointed at me.“The one inside you.”Silence.I stared.“How do you know?”“Because it opened when you entered the code.”I looked at the screen.RESTORE?I pressed NO.Voss shouted.“Camille!”Too late.The screen flashed.EXTERNAL RESTORATION CANCELLEDThen another line appeared.INTERNAL RECALL ACTIVEMara whispered, “What does that mean?”I knew.The memory hit.Fire.Not fragments.Everything.I was six years old.Barefoot.Yellow shirt.Blood on the sleeve.Not mine.Jaxon stood beside me.Eight.Amelia behin

Chapter 83 Rory’s Pov

Finding out your mother had been stolen as a child was the kind of revelation that should have broken the night in half.Instead, Robert Kane smiled.That was what I noticed.Not Richard staring at his father like he had never seen him before.Not Jaxon beside me, silent.Not Cruz holding a gun with both hands while pieces of a childhood she had lost continued returning to her.Not Elena crying.Robert.Smiling.“Sarah Kane was the first child your grandfather stole.”Cruz’s words remained in the room.I looked at Robert.He looked at me.And smiled.Something inside me went very quiet.Jaxon felt it.Of course he did.His hand closed around mine.“Rory.”I pulled free.“No.”He watched me.“I’m not stopping you.”“Good.”“I’m reminding you I’m here.”That stopped me.For half a second.Then I looked back at Robert.“Who was Sarah?”He tilted his head.“You know who she was.”“I know what everyone else has told me in the last sixty seconds.”I stepped closer.“I want to hear you say i

Chapter 84 Rory's Pov

I stared at him.“Daniel was my father?”“Yes.”My mouth opened.Nothing came out.All those years.Clara and Daniel.My mother and father.Except Clara wasn’t.Except Daniel was.Maybe.Maybe nothing was true anymore.“Did he know?”“Yes.”“About Sarah?”“Yes.”“About the programme?”“Later.”“About me?”Robert’s expression changed.“From the beginning.”My throat tightened.Jaxon’s hand found mine again.This time I held it.“Did he love her?”Robert looked away.“Yes.”“Did she love him?”“Yes.”That hurt in a way I hadn’t expected.Maybe because it was simple.Finally.Something that did not sound like an experiment.Two people.My parents.Loving each other.“What happened?”“Sarah knew she was being watched. She knew my father’s old network had begun asking questions about you.”“Why me?”“Because you were her child.”“That isn’t enough.”“It was to them.”“No.”I shook my head.“You keep doing that.”“Doing what?”“Answering around the truth.”Robert’s eyes narrowed.“Why did t

Chapter 85 Rory's Pov

Mara’s face went white. “No.”“What?” Bennett demanded.Mara looked toward the staircase.“Everyone upstairs.”Bennett frowned.“What?”“Now.”The first door below slammed.Then another.The sound travelled upward.Level six.Level five.Level four.Amelia ran toward us.The other figures followed.“Move!”Cruz grabbed Lila.Elena ran with them.Jaxon pulled me back from the opening.Richard grabbed Robert.Bennett shouted for everyone to clear the staircase.Another door slammed.Level three.Mara counted under her breath.“No. No. No.”“What happens when it reaches us?” I shouted.She looked at me.“It seals the house.”“It’s already sealed!”“Completely.”I didn’t like the way she said that.“What does completely mean?”Robert answered.“No air exchange.”Silence.Bennett stared.“You built a structure that suffocates the occupants?”“It was containment.”“You people really use that word for everything.”Level two slammed.The entire floor shook.The staircase began retracting.Ame

Chapter 86 Jaxon’s Pov

I had spent most of the night discovering dead relatives, so when Rory’s mother told us our baby could not be born inside the house, I skipped surprise and went directly to panic.“We’re leaving.”Rory turned toward me.Sarah was still standing at the top of the staircase.Barefoot.Grey hair.White clothes.Thin enough that I could see the bones beneath her wrists.Alive.Apparently.I had stopped trusting that word.Rory stared at her.She had not moved since Robert whispered Sarah’s name.Neither had Sarah.They were looking at each other.Mother and daughter.Except they didn’t look like that.Not yet.They looked like two strangers carrying the same face in different decades.“Rory.”She didn’t answer.I stepped in front of her.Her eyes finally moved to mine.“We’re leaving.”“How?”“I don’t care.”“That seems like an important part of the plan.”“I’ll figure it out.”Her mouth moved slightly.Under any other circumstances, I would have taken that as progress.There was no progr

Chapter 87 Jaxon’s Pov

Richard caught me. “Don’t.”I looked at him.“He has one more sentence like that.”“I know.”“One.”“I know.”Robert looked almost amused.Sarah didn’t.She walked toward the wall.“Where is the original control panel?”Robert’s face changed.“Gone.”“No.”“Yes.”“You never remove redundancy.”Silence.Sarah smiled without humour.“You taught me that.”Richard looked at Robert.“Where?”Robert said nothing.Sarah turned toward the floor.“Level one.”Mara shook her head.“There is no control panel on level one.”“There was.”“The level was rebuilt.”“Not that section.”Robert’s face tightened.Sarah looked at Bennett.“Behind the observation room.”“How do you know?”“Because I put it there.”Silence.Robert closed his eyes.Richard stared.“You built part of this place?”Sarah looked at him.“I helped.”Rory’s hand slipped from mine.Sarah saw.Pain crossed her face.“I was trying to understand what had been done to me.”Rory said nothing.Sarah continued.“I thought if I understood

Chapter 88 Jaxon’s Pov

Bennett looked at Robert.“You too.”Robert laughed.“You think I’m staying because you told me?”Cruz aimed her weapon at his chest.“Yes.”Robert looked at her.Then smiled.“Camille.”“Try it.”He stopped smiling.“Cruz,” she said.Silence.“Call me Cruz.”Something about that landed differently.Not rejection.Choice.Sarah noticed.So did Mara.The panel beeped.OVERRIDE WINDOW — 11:43A countdown began.Bennett looked at the staircase.“We move now.”The floor opened.Cold air rose.Rory’s hand found mine.This time I asked.“You sure?”She looked at me.“No.”I almost laughed.“Good answer.”“Are you?”“No.”“Excellent.”We descended.Cruz first.Bennett.Sarah.Rory.Me.Mara followed despite nobody inviting her.Of course.The floor remained open above us.For now.Level one looked different from the section I remembered.White walls.Old glass.Doors.My body recognised it before my mind did.My pulse increased.Rory noticed.“You okay?”“No.”“Good. Consistency.”I squeezed

Chapter 89 Rory's Pov

The worst thing about meeting a second version of your boyfriend’s mother was realizing you disliked this one on sight too.“My name is Evelyn.”Nobody moved.The woman stood inside the control room wearing a red scarf.Jaxon had stopped breathing beside me.I knew because I was holding his hand.One second, his fingers had been warm around mine.The next, nothing.No movement.No pressure.No reaction.Just stillness.“Jaxon.”He didn’t look at me.The woman did.Her eyes moved to our joined hands.Then to my stomach.Of course.I was beginning to consider wearing a sign.YES, I AM PREGNANT. NO, YOU MAY NOT BUILD A SECRET RESEARCH PROGRAMME AROUND IT.“Jaxon.”This time his eyes moved.Not to me.To Sarah.“You said her name was Evelyn.”Sarah’s face had gone white.“Yes.”“That’s my mother.”“I know.”“My mother is alive.”Sarah swallowed.“Yes.”“My mother is not standing in that room.”The woman smiled.It was a small smile.Sad.Almost affectionate.I hated it immediately.“You a

Chapter 90 Rory's Pov

The room changed.I hated how easily my mother’s name could still do that.“What was she right about?”The woman looked at our hands.“Choice.”I was beginning to hate that word too.Sarah stepped forward.“Stop talking around it.”The woman looked at her.“You know.”“No.”“You do.”“I know what Clara wrote.”“You know what she discovered.”Sarah’s face tightened.“Attachment stabilised the response.”“Yes.”“That doesn’t explain why you are here.”The woman looked toward the control panels.“No.”She touched one.The room lit.Screens.Dozens.Old monitors came alive.Cruz aimed.“Hands where I can see them.”“I’m activating the archive.”“I don’t care.”“You should.”One screen displayed a date.Twenty-two years ago.Another displayed names.Codes.I recognised none.Then one appeared.KANE, JAXONJaxon stopped breathing.Another.MERCER, CAMILLECruz went still.Another.CALLAHAN —The rest was corrupted.Lila.Then—RORYNo surname.Just Rory.I stared.The woman looked at me.“C

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