CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-ONE THE FINAL CIPHERCASPIAN’S POVThe low hum of the hospital heart monitor, the steady patter of the rain against the floor-to-ceiling glass were the only sounds in the room.. But they felt miles away, muffled beneath the deafening echo of Marcus’s words.She's dead.Helena Laurent was gone.I stood motionless beside the hospital bed, my body rigid as cold granite. My hand was still half-extended where I had been shielding Serena and the baby."Dead?" I repeated, my voice dropping into a growl that vibrated through the quiet room. "Helena is a prisoner in a maximum security federal facility, guarded twenty-four hours a day. People in solitary don't just drop dead of 'unnatural causes Marcus shifted his weight, his face tight with tension as he stepped just far enough inside the room to close the door behind him, sealing us off from the hospital corridor."The warden is calling it an acute systemic failure, sir," Marcus reported rapidly, his voice cli
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