CHAPTER SIXTY-NINE
The toxin vents hissed louder in the narrow tunnel, filling the air with a faint metallic tang that stung the throat but had not yet caused real harm.
The console screen still glowed with the image of the father standing tall beside the second silver-haired woman…the real Victoria twin…her face an even sharper echo of their mother’s youthful imperious beauty.
The revelation that Evelyn had been only a decoy, the gentle face meant to draw pity and fracture the group, landed like a stone dropped into still water. The pity that had begun to stir for the “trained triplet” in the tunnel now hung awkwardly in the air, misplaced and raw.
Elena kept her arm firmly around Lila, supporting her twin while staring at the screen. The persuasion she and Lila had offered so gentl
