Married To My Enemy's Son
The ping had changed everything.
It was a low-frequency signal that repeated every seventeen minutes. Faint, steady, and utterly alien.
Adrian and Lena spent hours decoding its rhythm. Eve just sat there, eyes closed, like she could hear it in her bloodstream.
"It’s not from Earth," Lena confirmed. "We triangulated it. It’s coming from a satellite we never launched."
Adrian turned to Eve. "You said they’re not human. Is this... them?"
Eve nodded, but her voice was fragile. "Third wave. Not clones. Not soldiers. Not even artificial."