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Stonewall

Author: Mara Writes
last update publish date: 2026-06-16 22:10:51

ELARA’S POV

The words didn’t make sense at first.

They hovered on the screen like a different language, something my mind saw but refused to read.

*Recovery Protocol for Subject Elara Santos.*

I stared until the letters blurred.

“No,” I said, shaking my head. “No, Dante, that’s not real.”

My voice didn’t sound like mine. It sounded thin and uncertain.

Dante didn’t move or blink. He kept the phone angled toward me, showing a document neither of us could ignore.

“You’re reading it wrong,” I said
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