The glass cabwasn't made of the ordinary kind one saw in storefronts. Under the weight of sunseen force, it had

shattered, sending shards skittering across the floor where they lacerated the back of his hand, leaving behind a trail of blood.

But he didn't care, not even enough to bandage the wound. Instead, he just turned around and headed back to his room to sleep.

lan watched the scene unfold with a mix of confusion and disbelief. What was this guy on?

It wasn't until lan passed by another room and heard noises that should have been private -noises so cringeworthy that he wished

he could unhear them. The deliberate cooing and feigned innocence emanating from a woman in her fifties sent shivers down his

spine.

He knew what was happening behind that door, and he heard the nthe woman was calling out.

Suddenly, it all clicked for lan. Philip had lost his marbles. In a desperate bid to please this woman, he had thrown his own brother

to the wolves - or rather, to an old vixen with a heart of stone. No wonder the guy was losing his mind.

After all, Philip was a man of pride.

A smirk of irony touched lan's eyes. The world was a twisted stage, and Philip, who thought he was pulling all the strings, was just

as much a puppet as the rest.

What went around, caround.

When lan got back to his room, an hour had passed. He had gotten a good sense of the layout, except for Dylan, he'd located all

the living souls. But he suspected there were parts of the air ducts he hadn't accessed yet. So far, he hadn't detected any area that

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Like that man in the central hall earlier - his quarters remained elusive.

ducts ran through the entire base. Now it seemed they only covered three-quarters of it.

quarter housed the elite.

also learned about sof the toxins in the core lab, but he wasn't about

of observation were

been on edge ever since she lost contact with lan. She couldn't sleep, so she decided to

hallway.

not to leave the building, and she had been obedient, only venturing as

rooms on all three floors, giving her a sense of

outside the hotel, where she spotted a woman staggering about. It was

expect

saw the woman collapsed at the hotel's entrance. She wanted to

lan's men.

Pennyfeather, Mr. Raymond insists you stay

collapsed outside the hotel. Please,

bug going around, Cania sickness. If she's

"She doesn't look sick;

hesitated, and then relented, "Alright, we'll have someone take a look, get her

before bringing her

was the best they

the woman was brought back to the hotel. She had taken bullets - one

had been removed, the wounds

went to check on the woman at 5 AM, but she was still unconscious.

that the woman in the bed

was raspy and

handed her swater, "How do you

"Fine, thanks."

did you

throat felt better, "Il went

belly, and as if

"Keep

But do you realize how

smile, "I told you before, I always felt my brother was

wearing a jade bead

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