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Chapter Thirteen Dawn broke dull and gray, the light seeping weakly through shattered windows. Smoke from burned-out vehicles still drifted across the yard, clinging to the air, mixing with the metallic stench of blood. Raven sat on the edge of her cot, her body rigid, her mind replaying the night in merciless loops. Axel’s voice, His scent and the heat of his nearness. The bond pulled her like invisible chains. She dragged her claws across the wooden frame of the bed, carving deep grooves into the wood. Her wolf snarled within, restless and furious not at Axel, but at her.

She needed to find the text files of The Billionaire’s Constraint. The browser window opened with a flash but it didn't load her dashboard. The screen instantly turned a brilliant , blinding blue, like the vertical glass pods in the subterranean matrix. The standard mouse cursor vanished, replaced by a horizontal ticker tape of black text. CHRONOS_REWRITE_SYSTEM: RETRIEVING ARCHIVED DATA FOR VANCE_E... WARNING: SUBJECT IS CURRENTLY RETAINING IN EXCEPTION STATE... DELETION UNIT 01 EN ROUTE TO MAINLAND SECTOR...

that was enough for her to go and get me my coffee, gulping it all in few sips my eyes on Roman waiting for him to reboot but he never did, not for the next hour. Having enough with this, I went and hooked him up to my PC, his program seemed to be working well, but he's not rebooting, or turning on, he's on sleep mode. I had to do a physical check to his circuit and body, I couldn't really tell what's wrong, I had to do a deeper full on scan and hope for the best.