Bait on the Battlefield
Even though the pane held, the terrifying kinetic energy transferred through the barrier like a physical blow, rupturing my eardrum and rattling my skull.
The glass instantly spiderwebbed, a thousand silver fractures blooming in the light. A razor-thin splinter hissed through the air, grazing the corner of my eye. Blood beaded at once, mixing with cold sweat before trickling into my eye, stinging like acid.
I was Lorenzo's live target, codenamed 01.
Names didn't matter, and pain wasn't allowed. My role was simple—to replicate hostile operatives during his extravagant security exercises—or, at present, to serve as a living prop.
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