Chapter 29
Chapter 26 – Cassian Laurel I was raised to be a weapon. Not a lover. Not a protector. Not a man who spoke confessions into dimly lit safehouses and promised vengeance in the same breath as devotion. But Luna Knight changed that. She changed me. Now I wasn’t just fighting for control of an empire. I was fighting for her. For us. For the lives lost to our fathers’ sins—and for the future we could still salvage, if we acted fast enough. The Phoenix Phase II protocol was less than 72 hours from global test deployment. And Eleanor Knight had just become the most dangerous woman alive. Steven stood at the end of the safehouse corridor, phone pressed to his ear, eyes flicking between us like a hawk. “The file drop to Geneva triggered a defensive algorithm. Phoenix’s AI is isolating bre
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