Novel & Cerita Secret In The Lattice

She clearly wanted quick results, but she did not dare rush him. At last, Mr. Felix said, “There is a hidden section.” The experts around him moved closer. Lilian’s eyes lit up. “Can you open it?” “I can try,” Mr. Felix responded. He typed for a while longer. The screen changed several times. Symbols flashed, then slowed. A line of code appeared, then broke into smaller parts. Mr. Felix frowned. “This is strange.” Lilian quickly asked, “What is it?” “It is not just code. There is an identification mark hidden inside.” Mr. Felix entered one final command, and the screen went blank for a second. Then a name appeared.

Through the rain… A massive private island emerged from the darkness. Towering cliffs. Armed watchtowers. A sprawling estate glowing beneath flashes of lightning. It looked less like a home… And more like a fortress. Lucien slowly released Elara’s hand. His face became unreadable. “It’s time.” Below them… Hidden beneath the crashing waves… The entrance to the secret tunnel waited. Unseen. Silent. Exactly where Sebastian wanted them to enter. And deep inside the fortress… Sebastian stood before a bank of security monitors. Watching the helicopters approach.

Back at the castle, Livia and Elias headed straight for the hidden chamber. It was Livia’s first time entering the Marcellus family’s secret vault—Marcellus had always subtly avoided mentioning it before. But now wasn’t the time to dwell on that. Once the coded lock was disengaged, the door creaked open, releasing a wave of stale air tinged with dampness and a faint, woody scent of decay.

I gasped as I scanned the tree lines for anything. A howl ripped through the night as I ran inside and grabbed Adaline. I laid her in the safe room in the office room that my parents installed when I was a young pup and not able to fight. I laid her down and locked her in. Only her and I knew the code. I ran back outside only in time to see our border patrol and royal guard in wolf form running to where we were. "Rogues." Jackson spit out, "Go ahead with Adaline. I can't lose you again."

It stank like hell and betrayal. But it had what I needed—access. Kade dropped a laptop on the metal desk. "You've got one attempt before they can trace it. Don't blow it." I cracked my knuckles and set to work. My fingers flew across the keyboard. Code flowed across the screen. Layers peeled off. Firewalls blinked like eyes. "Got something," I growled. Kade leaned in. "Tell me." “Larsson has a medical vault… an underground facility in Geneva. Not corporate. Private. It’s coded under Cassian’s ID.”

I said curtly, turning my attention to her, “what do you really want from me?” Her lips curved into a sly smile, her gaze flickering to Alex for a moment before locking onto mine. “I want both of you, Liam. I want to be part of your world and every part of it.” Her voice dropped to a near whisper, dripping with intent. “He can be your hidden secret. On top of the secret you’re already hiding.” The words were like a shot of adrenaline straight to my chest, but it was the photograph she slid across the table that made my blood run cold. My breath hitched when I stared down at the image. A picture of me mid-shift, caught in a blur of fur and claws.

Click! In the middle of the night, a small sound of a door being unlocked echoed throughout the office. At the end of this sound, everything was in absolute silence. A tall figure in black entered the room and looked around. The person was on a mission to find the missing material. It was important that everything in this room was thoroughly searched—every drawer, every shelf, even the small spaces between furniture. The sources informed what was needed was hidden in an object. Luckily, the night was long enough for a detailed search of every item.

“Let me lead the design of layered defenses and decoys. We’ll call this—Lattice Aegis.” A few eyebrows raised. I unfolded my own small scroll—a map of Fanghart Castle and the borders of neighboring territories that I had drawn up the night before with Nyra and Beta Casren. “Lattice Aegis is a network of wards that doesn’t stay still. The nodes must be placed on natural boundaries that can ‘come alive’: ancient trees, menhirs, riverbanks. We inject tracking seeds—runic stings—that disguise themselves as ordinary ritual residues. When the black nodes attach, our seeds activate, then—”

he said with so much confidence " I am sorry Mr. Winston but he is not in his office," she said. Janiece hears the arguments outside and wanted to open the door to check what was going wrong when she remembered she left Karl's drawer open. She walked back to close it and while doing that the documents on the table fell. "Why now?" She groaned before dropping the initial documents she went there to get. Owen heard the noise in the office and stretch his neck to see if this secretary is lying or was it just his ear that is deceiving him.

Leonard must have figured me out by now. He knew I was the type who acted shy on the outside but had secret desires underneath. After a few moments of teasing, he pulled me into another round, and we kept going until we were both completely worn out. When I was ready to leave, he insisted that I did not put my underwear back on. He said he wanted to keep it as a souvenir. I did not want to, but I could not argue with him, so I just did what he said. My stockings were already torn, so I could not wear those either. I took them off and went home wearing only my skirt.