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She looked up when I entered, took one look at my face, and closed the laptop. "Tell me." I handed her the folder. I watched her read. She went through it methodically—the way she did everything, even now. Page by page. Photograph by photograph. Her expression didn't change until she reached the last document: a handwritten letter, dated three weeks ago, from a source Khalil claimed was inside the remnants of Wolfe's network. Project Oracle wasn't destroyed. It was copied. The architecture exists on servers outside legal jurisdiction, and someone is rebuilding the behavioral prediction models using Wolfe's original framework.

I just let the silence stretch, letting him interpret it however he wanted. “Good,” he said finally. “Then we understand each other.” The system pinged again. A notification flashed: Access granted to private archives. That was my real target. The archives held Lucen’s classified deals, the proof of how deep their corruption went. I copied everything, embedding it within a disguised data packet that would auto-send to Dream once I cleared the base. “Done,” I said, pushing back from the console. “The system’s stable now. You’ll be able to merge the new framework within twenty-four hours.”

Then I slid over to her encrypted console. It pulsed blue, secure. Locked tight. But I didn’t spend five years embedded inside the Initiative for nothing. I knew backdoors. I entered an override string, one I’d designed long ago under a different name. A version of myself I no longer recognized. The screen blinked… then cracked open like a shell. A directory appeared. Folder after folder labeled in sterile Initiative codes, “VITA-TRACE,” “NEURO-MAPP,” “SUBJ 13.” One folder pulsed red: “ARCHIVE – ARIA MONROE.”

“We need a choke point.” “There’s an archive vault,” I said, memory igniting. “It locks from the inside. We can trap them—at least long enough to upload the files remotely.” Leon nodded. “Show me.” We backtracked two turns, the red lights painting everything in crimson streaks. The archive vault’s massive door loomed ahead, steel reinforced, just like I remembered. We slipped inside and slammed it shut. I moved fast, fingers flying across the console. “This server links to the remote uplink tower near the east cliffs. I can start the transfer from here.”

I hated how easy it was for my body to trust him when my mind kept circling back to doubt. “I believe you,” I said, and I meant it, even with my voice cracking. “But I need this to stop, Ethan. I need to know who’s doing this.” “So do I.” Orin cleared his throat. “There’s something else.” We both looked at him. “Brian called the safe house line this morning. He says he wants a truce. Says he has access to old Norwood archives, records from that year, things that could clear this up once and for all. He wants to meet.”

"Can you walk?" "I can try." "Try harder." Seraphina looked at the door. "The police are three blocks away. Marcus didn't just send the gang. He sent the cleaners." "Where do we go?" I asked. "The estate is gone. The Archive is ash." "The Archive isn't ash." Seraphina reached into her bodice and pulled out a small, encrypted key. "Elinor was a lot of things, but she wasn't a fool. The physical servers were a decoy. The real data is stored in the city’s water filtration plant. Beneath the pressure valves."

My mind was already at the archive — the possibility that, tucked away in some forgotten drawer, there was proof of who orchestrated all this. Graymont Archives sat on a quiet street lined with old brick buildings, the kind that looked like they’d seen too many winters. Inside, the air smelled faintly of dust and old paper. Rows of gray filing cabinets stretched down the corridor like soldiers guarding secrets. At the front desk, a clerk looked up from his computer. “Can I help you?” “Natalie Harris, York International Legal Division.” I flashed my ID. “I need access to off-site vendor files from 2017 — project reference ProcureEx Trading Ltd.”

Oceans p.o.v. Gregory doubled over as if in pain, before I could react he had transformed into his shaggy brown wolf and was howling to the sky "Gregory, what's wrong?" "Ocean, it's Desert and Lanna they went into the forest and didn't come back and now Sky cant contact Desert" fear settled deep in my stomach "I'm on my way" I rush over to Gregory "Gregory, come on we need to go, Lanna and Desert need us"

So I went to find him, because he had to know. *** After a long search, Rowan let me know that he was in the archives. As I made my way there, I wondered how Orion had access to the archives. When I reached the library, I went into the inner room where I was sure the archives were and I found the door slightly opened. I pushed the door wider. The room was larger than I expected, and widely spaced books were scattered and opened across the floor. Orion sat at the only table in the room. For a room so big just a table and a seat was ridiculous, but it showed that it wasn’t a room people could have access to.

he says, sliding the laptop across the desk. I take the laptop from Orion, the cool metal familiar under my fingertips as I flip it open. The screen lights up, revealing a clutter of folders and documents strewn across the desktop—Osiris was never the most organized when he was hot on the heels of something. “Let’s see what our brother was so wrapped up in,” I mutter, starting to sift through the files. Orion leans against the wall, arms crossed, watching me work. I click through financial records, email correspondences, and several cryptic notes that seem to relate to various pack matters—nothing out of the ordinary for a Beta of our pack. But as I dig deeper, a specific folder catches my e