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Water closed over Camille's head. Cold. So cold it burned
her skin. She kicked toward the surface, arms flailing, lungs
screaming for air. But something held her
down, hands gripping her ankles, dragging her deeper into the darkness.
She looked down. Rose stared back at her, grinning, her hair floating around her
face like seaweed. Beside her, Herod Preston, his
eyes flat and lifeless as a shark's. They pulled
harder. The pressure in Camille's chest built to unbearable levels.
She opened her mouth to scream, but only bubbles escaped as water rushed in..
Camille jolted upright in bed, gasping. Her
nightgown stuck to her skin, soaked with sweat. For a moment, she couldn't remember where she was. Then the familiar outlines of her bedroom at the Kane mansion took shape in the darkness.
Just a dream. The same dream that had haunted her for months after Rose's betrayal. The one Victoria's training had eventually banished.
Until now.
Camille switched on the bedside lamp, chasing away the shadows. The digital
clock read 3:17 AM. She pushed back the tangled sheets and
moved to the window, pressing her forehead against the cool glass. Below, the estate's gardens
stretched out, security lights casting strange patterns across the manicured lawns. Beyond the gates, Manhattan glittered in the distance.
This was the third night in a row the nightmare had returned. Each time more
vivid. Each time harder to shake off.
Her phone buzzed on the nightstand. Alexander's text: *Awake?*
How did he always know? Camille typed back: *Bad dream again.*
Three dots appeared immediately. *Coming over. Kitchen. Hot chocolate.*
A small smile touched her lips
despite the lingering dread from the nightmare. Alexander
had developed an almost supernatural sense for when she couldn't sleep. Since their visit to his childhood home, since
that first real kiss their connection had deepened into something that sometimes
frightened her with its intensity.
Camille pulled on a silk robe and padded barefoot down the mansion's
grand staircase. The
house was silent except for the occasional creak of settling wood and the
soft footsteps of security guards patrolling outside.
In the kitchen, she switched on a single light and filled the kettle. Alexander would
arrive in exactly twelve minutes. He always did, no matter
what time she texted. One of the many mysteries about him she
hadn't solved yet.
As she reached for mugs in the cabinet, a movement in the garden caught her eye.
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Camille froze, staring out the window. Nothing but shifting shadows from the trees.
Yet something felt... wrong. The hairs on her arms stood up.
She moved away from
the window, suddenly aware of how exposed she was in the
lit kitchen. Victoria's training kicked in automatically. Assess the threat. Minimize vulnerability. Create advantage.
The kettle began to whistle. Camille switched it off and backed toward the pantry.
as her fingers found the light switch, the kitchen door swung open.
Just
"Security sweep is clear."
Camille
relief at the sound of Alexander's voice. He stood in the doorway, his expression shifting from alert to concerned when he
happened?" He crossed to her
the garden. Just shadows." Camille tried to
look convinced. He
window, scanning the grounds with practiced eyes. "Security has
preparation of hot chocolate. "What aren't you two telling
her
something. She
to wait until the Grid corrections
what?" The nightmare's lingering dread intensified. "Alexander, no
nodded, taking the mug she
been buying Kane Industries
over five percent
stilled. "A
"Unlikely
sixty percent, and I recently purchased ten percent myself." Alexander held her gaze. “But it suggests Herod's
the Grid."
too small, too
around her mug,
same day Victoria discovered this,"
know about it, but somehow
this as superstition,
mind misses. Victoria's been tenser. Security
the breakfast nook, sitting across from each other
the night pressed against the windows
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about the
stared into her mug. "I'm drowning. Rose
her." She looked up.
this sense of... running
of time."
Alexander
table, taking her hand. The contact
more you should know," he
layer of
sophisticated than
by someone with higher security clearance than
"Who?"
Her head of
hit Camille like a physical blow. Martin
had been at
Who had helped train Camille when she
detail of Kane Industries
whispered. "He's been with
Alexander finished. "Fifteen years of apparent loyalty. Which makes
no
Greene is working with
He knows everything,
She paused, a new
about
"Victoria has him
he's communicating with Herod or
be too late." Camille stood, suddenly
more aggressively.
wants to wait. Use Greene to
planning something
the kitchen, her nightmare's urgency
Grid sabotage. The stock purchases.
all connected, but
at the
darkness. The garden lights cast long shadows
creating shapes that seemed to shift and move with a life
there's another layerwe haven't
we've discovered so far is
joined her at the window.
about Rose," Camille said. "She's always
careful. Methodical. Her
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family took years of
her head. "Victoria
for a decade. People like that
"Victoria's releasing false information
Alexander said. "A press release about a major partnership between Kane Industries and
to make Herod react."
"Smart. But
to the refrigerator, pulling
the milk in a pan,
she said suddenly. "When
against the
ago, according
Rose connected with Herod," Camille noted.
"Yes. Which suggests...."
didn't find Herod," Camille finished. "Herod found Rose. He sought
of
he followed her logic. "So
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