Novel Core Novels & Stories

“She’s got part of him trapped. But he told me—there’s something under the lab.” Adrian frowned. “What are you talking about?” “The core,” Maya said. “A second one. Beneath us.” Eleanor’s voice drifted from across the room. “Ah. So he told you.” They turned to see her standing near the pod, fingers lightly tracing its edge. “Yes,” she continued, almost conversationally. “There’s another system. The original neural core. It contains every memory, every test, every life I created before either of you.” Maya stood, swaying slightly. “You mean—others like us?”

She instructed her best friend and rushed to the bathroom. "What's this?" Tasha found something on her desk. she picked up the booklet and turned the pages, "A new novel?" she exclaimed. "Wait!" Arielle shouted from the bathroom, she had the habit to write it down instead of typing her stories, she used her gift to write 2-3 chapters of her new novel last night before going to bed. She rushed out with the toothbrush still on her hand. "Give that to me." "Nope. You're writing a new novel? A romance novel at that?" Tasha ran around the room reading the notes.

“You trust her with that much power?” The question hit harder than I wanted it to. I ground out my cigarette and said, “If I don’t, we’ve already lost.” He nodded, pushing off the doorframe. “You always did like your lessons in pain the hard way.” When he left, I stayed at the balcony, staring down at the courtyard. The truth was, Niko wasn’t wrong. The Core had started as my idea—a system to keep the empire’s pulse in one place. But Alana had taken it and made it her own. Now, every whisper of information came through her first. Every shipment, every alliance, every betrayal.