The Mafia's Forced Bride
the baby had my eyes.
"Your mother didn't just encode data into your DNA, Aria," the Architect whispered. "She encoded a weapon. A way to collapse every digital system the Commission has built. You're not a key. You're a bomb. And the timer just started."
He turned the photograph over. On the back, written in faded ink, was a single sentence:
"When the second generation is born, the old world ends."
I looked down at my stomach, my hand trembling as I pressed it against he life inside me, and realized with a cold, sinking certainty that my child wasn't just hunted. It was the apocalypse.