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Chapter 70 - A Brother's Atonement

The lab smelled like recycled air and bad decisions.

Miles stood before the holographic map of Cross Corp tower, a glowing, three-dimensional monument to everything he hated.

It was a fortress.

A tomb.

And Gideon was somewhere inside.

"Okay, so, just spitballing here," Leo said, his voice a little too loud in the tense silence.

He was hunched over a secondary console, his fingers a blur across a holographic keyboard.

"Has anyone considered just, you know, not doing this?"

"We could run."

"I hear Argentina is nice this time of year."

"We could open a small alpaca farm."

"I've always wanted to raise alpacas."

"They seem very low-stress."

No one laughed.

The air was too thick for jokes.

Kael, Gideon's second-in-command, was staring at the tower's schematic with the cold, dead eyes of a man who had seen too many good plans go bad.

"The main network is a ghost," Kael stated, his voice a low, gravelly rumble. "It's not on any public or private grid."

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