The drive to Genesis headquarters was silent except for the low hum of the car's engine. Marrin sat in the passenger seat, staring out at the city lights as they flickered past like ghosts. Her thoughts were a storm of fragments—memories, fears, faces. Hers. The other hers.
Calvin drove with both hands tight on the wheel. His jaw was clenched, his eyes set straight ahead. He hadn't spoken since they left the cabin, but Marrin didn't need him to. The air between them carried everything unsaid—the fear, the determination, the quiet understanding that this was it.
When the steel-and-glass tower of Genesis Corporation came into view, Marrin felt her breath catch. She remembered this place. Not from her life, but from flashes of the other one. The hallways. The experiments. The sound of her o
