CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX
The speedboat sliced through the inky water toward the distant shore lights, the yacht Eternal shrinking into a silent silhouette behind them.
Elena sat at the stern, Lila beside her, their hands clasped tightly as the cool night air whipped past. Jax kept the throttle steady, eyes scanning the horizon for any sign of pursuit.
The final message from the ghost still burned in Elena’s mind: Isabella sends her regards.
Lila broke the silence first, voice low against the engine’s rumble. “She wasn’t lying. During the merge I caught glimpses…Isabella wasn’t just erased. She was the original template.
The first successful clone. Victoria kept her in stasis for years, harvesting neural patterns to build us. Then she terminated the body when it started developing its own
