Alle Kapitel von Reborn in the Freeze: My Million-Dollar Shelter Begins with : Kapitel 161 – Kapitel 164

Kane sat in the chair where Earl had forced him down, wrists bound behind his back with heavy zip-ties, ankles secured to the chair legs. Blood from a shallow cut on his forehead had dried into a dark line that ran down to his cheekbone.Even like that—disarmed, restrained, surrounded—he managed to look composed.The command center smelled of ozone, gunpowder, and the copper tang of blood.Emergency lights still painted everything in intermittent red. Outside the reinforced windows the blizzard raged on, white and howling, erasing the bodies we had left in the snow.I stood three meters away with my rifle lowered but ready. My left shoulder throbbed in deep, rhythmic pulses where the round had torn through muscle. Nadia’s voice had already come over the net ordering me to get the wound packed, but I ignored it. Some things could not wait.Kane studied me the way a man studies a particularly interesting problem.“You know,” he said, voice calm and almost conversational, “I had a file o

The maintenance shaft spat us out into a narrow service corridor that still belonged to the Black Sun compound. The air here was colder, heavy with the smell of old coolant and burnt insulation. Somewhere above, the battle continued—muffled gunfire, the occasional deep thump of an explosion—but the lower levels had gone strangely quiet, as if the structure itself was holding its breath.Elias kept one hand under my good arm, steadying me without making a show of it. His pace matched mine exactly. He never pulled ahead or lagged behind. Every few meters he paused, head tilted, listening to the building the way I listened to people.“Two corridors down, then left,” he said under his breath. “There’s an old geothermal access that was never fully mapped on Kane’s internal schematics. I used it twice when they still let me move between labs.”I nodded, jaw tight against the pain in my shoulder and calf. Blood had already soaked through the fresh bandage he had applied. Each step left a dar