The Swiss mountains were silent in the aftermath.
Ethan stood at the edge of the collapsed facility, staring at the rubble. The building that had once been the heart of the Genesis Project's original site was gone, buried beneath tons of rock and debris. Eleanor Cross was gone too—escaped, vanished, evaporated into the frozen landscape. But this time, she'd left something behind.
A message. Etched into the stone wall of the central chamber, hidden beneath a layer of debris.
The Genesis Ascension is already in motion. You can't stop it.
But I've left you one final gift—a way to watch the end of the world from a safe distance.
Enjoy it, Ethan.
—E.C.
Ethan stared at the message, his blood running cold. She had planned for this. She'd known they would come, known they would destroy the
