CHAPTER 33
Sam paused outside Ila's office, his gaze locking onto Ila's brother, Mael, who was leaning casually against the wall. Mael's sharp eyes met Sam's, and though no words passed between them, the weight of unspoken truths hung in the air like a storm waiting to break. The sight of Mael stirred something primal in Sam. The man was a reminder of the life Sam and his team would never truly reclaim. Ghosts of the Ghost Program. Soldiers who had been marked not just for death, but for erasure-bodies modified, minds rewritten, and survival linked to each other in ways no one fully understood. The Ghost Program hadn't just recruited soldiers; it had remade them. Broken them down, rebuilt them, and then pushed them beyond human limits and they hadn't stopped there they had experimented on them, de
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