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The Ghost in the Machine
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2026-06-10 09:00:00The cursor blinked on the screen like a heartbeat, and I knew that with one keystroke I could begin tearing Victor’s world apart from three hundred miles away.
I sat in the small office off the main room of the Maine cabin, the only light coming from the laptop screen and the dying fire in the hearth. Snow fell heavily outside the windows, blanketing the woods in silence. Damien was asleep in the bedroom, exhausted from another long day coordinating with Marcus Vance’s peop
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