Allis

just as everyone thought the dust had settled,

onducting my daily system di

gative piece titled: "From Allison to Riddle: The Rise,

rication. It revealed that the massive capital injections that saved his firm from a hidden insolvency years ago came entirely fro

ra hadn't even reached Phase Two

eam owner's daughter. It turned out Isabell and Declan had stepped on far too many

ide the Rangers' facility, screaming into a dozen flashing cameras: "The engagem

unbothered. Isabell was ruined. Her

on returned to

neurological stimulation patterns I had programmed through Chimera

rowned in heavy, suffocating darkness, illuminated

ace barely inches from his pale cheek as I adjust

his chest, displaying sensitive, encrypted files-real-time neural maps, decrypted

probing his frail body and extracting his dee

The only sound was the slow,

ng two fingers against his neck to double-check

the data, my mind calculating

n, a prickle of ice ran

me-the terrifying, unmistaka

fr

es from the glowing red text on my

rly stopped

. He hadn't made

omery's eyes w

the tablet, a pair of ice-blue ey

e dead, hollow, and chillingly clear-staring up at me from the dark like a

mplete, dead stillness, watching my hand resting on his throat,

ee and more like a corporate spy conducting an un