Elena’s POVThe alarm screamed through the underground archive like a living thing.Sharp.Violent.Merciless.Red emergency lights flashed overhead, painting the room in a pulsing crimson glow. Every shelf, every filing cabinet, every steel beam seemed to flicker between shadow and blood.For one suspended second, I stood frozen in front of the locked cabinet marked Factory Seven Incident Report.Then the sound of approaching footsteps snapped me back to reality.Many footsteps.Heavy.Fast.Too many.My pulse turned ice-cold.We had been found.Adrian reacted first.He crossed the room in three long strides and reached the main archive door, listening to the corridor beyond. His expression hardened almost immediately.“Six, maybe eight men,” he said quietly. “Possibly more behind them.”Wonderful.Exactly the kind of evening every sixteen-year-old girl dreamed of.I looked back at the locked cabinet.The file inside could change everything.It could contain names.Orders.Financial
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