Twenty Seven Days
The grand library felt even larger now that the silence had settled completely, the towering shelves of books looking like the ruins of an ancient city that had been abandoned overnight.
Xavier had taken off his tactical vest, dropping it onto the floorboards near the door like a piece of garbage. He was in his dark trousers and a torn, soot-stained black shirt, his sleeves rolled up to his elbows, revealing the long, pale scars on his forearms from a childhood he had spent trying to escape his name. He was standing by the central window, his hands resting on the oak sill, his eyes fixed on the long, winding driveway that led through the iron gates.
"They're at the outer perimeter," Xavier s
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