CHAPTER 34
Somewhere inside me, I had always known there’d be no clean ending. No big red button to push. No neat unraveling of the truth. Just more rooms. More secrets. More mirrors showing me faces I couldn’t name, all with my eyes.
By the time I made it back to Site E, the sky was bruised with clouds, like it knew what I was about to do.
I didn’t go in through the front this time.
I had the codes. I had the map. And I had nothing left to lose.
The compound was quieter than usual—too quiet. I slipped through the service entrance and down the corridor that smelled of antiseptic and damp wires. Past the observation halls, past the empty gurneys with restraints I didn’t want to think about.
When I reached the data room, I paused.
The door was slightly open.
Inside, the servers humme
