The London spring had arrived, but Ethan barely noticed.
He sat at the table in the safe house, going through the files one more time. The sleeper agents had been deactivated, their programming erased. The Custodian Protocol was destroyed, its files burned. The Genesis Ascension was a memory, its victims slowly recovering.
But something felt wrong.
Ethan couldn't shake the feeling that they'd missed something. That Eleanor's legacy wasn't fully buried. That somewhere, in the shadows, something was waiting.
Kate appeared beside him, her hand on his arm. "Ethan, you've been going through those files for hours. You need to rest."
"I can't rest. There's something I'm missing. Something important."
Kate studied his face, her eyes filled with concern. "What makes you think that?"
Ethan pu
