The sensory overload of freefall was deafening. Eighty stories of steel, reinforced glass, and concrete split in two, plunging down into the yawning subterranean trench beneath Vance Tower. Rubble crashed around them like falling mountains, illuminated only by the blinding, violent crimson of the orbital targeting beacon locked onto their falling coordinates.High above, the clouds tore open. A kinetic rod of pure, dense tungsten—dropped from the council's stealth orbital platform—sliced through the atmosphere at Mach 20, turning the night sky into a streak of white-hot plasma.In the middle of the dark abyss, Dominic didn't flinch.He wrapped his massive, muscular frame around Clara and their infant son, converting his entire body into a shield of iron and bone. His midnight-black alpha aura erupted into a dense, suffocating sphere of pure kinetic energy, deflecting falling steel girders that turned to dust when they hit his perimeter.The intoxicating scent of cedarwood, dark chocol
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