The Tycoon's Forbidden Desire
She looked at Elena, then at the machines, then at her brother, who was being slowly overpowered.
In that heartbeat, the "Forbidden" hatred that had fueled Victoria for twenty years finally broke. She didn't see a rival. She saw the only future her family had left. Victoria lunged—not away from the danger, but into it. She jammed the biometric relay directly into the Ouroboros unit’s power pack, triggering a massive, localized EMP.
CRACK-BOOM.
The blue sparks of the discharge illuminated the gallery. The exoskeleton seized, its pilot collapsing. But the feedback hit Victoria, too, throwing her back against the spinning turbine housing.
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