Chapter 112: System FailureThe warehouse was cold and dark, the air thick with the smell of rust and fear.Callan and I were tied to chairs side by side, our hands barely brushing in the dim light. The syndicate leader stood in front of us, smiling that cold, calculating smile I had come to hate.“You offered yourselves for each other,” he said. “How touching. The syndicate appreciates loyalty. But you broke the rules. You gathered evidence. You tried to turn on us. Now you pay the price.”The men around us prepared the next dose. Double. Triple. Enough to push the link to its absolute limit before it destroyed us completely.Callan’s voice was steady. “You don’t have to do this. We can make a deal.”The leader laughed. “The deal is simple. You take the dose. You perform for us one last time. Then you disappear. The world will think you ran away from the scandal. We keep the empire.”They injected us at the same ti
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