Partnership. A shared destiny forged in fire.
"What do you propose, Selena?" I asked, my voice betraying a hint of the hope I hadn't realised I harboured.
Her smile widened, cold and sharp as a newly honed blade. "We hit them, Henry. We hit them hard. You, Victor, Lisa, and every loyal Vanguard operative you still command. And me. With the full, undivided force of Vance Corp's resources, its data, its influence. We'll show Elias Kane and his Chimera what true, unyielding stability looks like."
She paused, her grip on my arm tightening, her eyes burning with an unspoken promise.
"Right," she declared, her voice ringing with absolute certainty, "we face this together. And Elias Kane won't know what's hit him."
But even as her words echoed, a new threat, unseen and unheard, was already s
