
After My Tendon Was Severed, I Stopped Loving Her
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Introduction
Chapter 1
In Geneva’s late autumn, the temperature was low enough to freeze the breath in your lungs. The Security Summit was held at a castle-hotel by the lake, its Victorian dark-red vaulted ceiling looming like a giant coffin, crushing the world's defense magnates beneath it.
I sat at the head of the oval table, flanked by my half-brother, Greg. He wore a finely tailored dark suit today, but those eyes—always filled with a shallow, cunning mockery—were now reflecting the red mahogany of the table, looking particularly grotesque. He was like a long-dormant viper that had finally clamped its jaws around my Achilles' heel.
"Jack, the era of the 'Ghost' is over." Greg slowly slid a heavily encrypted file toward me. His voice, enhanced by the speakers, carried a nauseating tone of authority. "According to the Unified Action Bureau’s multidimensional assessment, your security protocol, built on the core philosophy of 'protecting the individual,' has become a footnote in history. We require more precise, offensive autonomous clearance."
I didn’t look up, my fingertips tracing the waveform diagram on the terminal interface. The air was thick with high-density digital signal interference, and the air conditioning was turned so low that my old shrapnel wound—the "souvenir" embedded in my shoulder blade twelve years ago in Syria—throbbed with a dull ache.
"Algorithms don't decide survival on the battlefield," I replied, my voice raspy, like a mechanical arm that hadn't seen oil in a decade.
I connected my terminal to the system. The logical grids on the screen, which should have been impenetrable, began to dissolve silently. This wasn’t just Greg’s offensive; it was a premeditated internal execution. The base layer of the logic flickered with a signature key—a string of characters that felt like sharp shards of ice piercing my retina.
It was too familiar. It was the programming habit I had taught Sloane eight years ago—that unique "suffix logic." Only she used that.
I lifted my head, my eyes flicking over the high-definition cameras lining the hall. In the monitor playback in the bottom right corner, I captured a segment from three hours ago. In my private lab, a figure in that gray hoodie was typing rapidly at the terminal.
Even with her hood pulled low, her habit of tapping her left hand on the table when hitting 'Enter' betrayed her. Sloane, the girl I had protected with my life for eight years, was bypassing the firewall, handing over full control of my defensive systems to Greg’s hacking team in the most clandestine way possible.
In that instant, my heart felt like it had been flooded with ice slush. The pain wasn't sharp; it was a slow, devastating dullness. She wasn't just stealing access; she was carving a path—a path to hell with no way back.
"What's wrong? Jack, you don't look so good. Is that old wound acting up, or are you just scared by my proposal?" Greg sneered, standing up to clap me on the shoulder with performative bravado.
I watched him expressionlessly. If you knew your little "ally" was dismantling your entire defensive system, would you still be smiling?
I slid the terminal back to the center of the table, the metallic clatter jarring in the silent hall. "You have the clearance, Greg. As long as you guarantee this data isn't dumped to the black market, do what you want with it."
My voice sounded as calm as if I were discussing the wind direction over the lake tomorrow. It was a gamble. I knew exactly what this meant: Greg wanted to seize my security empire to purge the "conservatives" I left behind. And Sloane’s betrayal was his deadliest trump card.
After the meeting, I headed to the underground garage alone. The city’s glamorous landmarks flickered with hypnotic light in the night, but through my tactical lens, they were just cold data points.
I returned to my apartment in the city center. The lights were on. Sloane sat on the sofa, the terminal's glow illuminating her sharp, deep-set features—a face that, as she aged, grew more and more like Kastor’s.
Back in Syria, the fire had burned half the sky a sickening orange. Kastor had been pierced by shrapnel, his blood mixing with the dirt, thick as mud. He had clawed at my plate carrier, his voice grating like gravel, every word squeezed from his failing lungs: "Sloane... Jack... if you still call me your spotter, watch over her."
It was a curse, and it was the only cross I carried for the rest of my life.
I promised.
So I carried her out of the fire, gave her the best education, and even opened the core code of my security firm to her. I traded my scarred body for her secure future. I thought if I gave enough, time would wash away her biased hatred of the "loss of her father," or at least, help her understand that there were still people in this world willing to pay the price for her.
"You're back?" she asked, looking up.
She seemed so innocent. She put down the terminal, and that look... the pure, clean, even slightly dependent and fawning look returned. She stood up and naturally took my coat—a habit she’d formed over eight years.
I avoided her gaze, walking to the bar to pour myself a stiff drink.
"How was the meeting?" she asked, her tone as soft as any of the countless late nights over the last eight years. No flaws.
"It went well," I murmured. My fingers felt icy when they touched the glass.
I turned to look at her. She was fidgeting with the drawstring of her hoodie. I was gambling. I was still gambling that this was just a glitch—a phase. That as long as I remained the soldier who took bullets for her father, as long as I wasn't dead, I could pull her back from the abyss.
I sat beside her, reaching out as usual to stroke her hair. It was still soft, but I felt a dangerous intimacy.
"Sloane, remember," I said, my voice so raspy it sounded alien to me, "whatever you want, as long as you ask, as long as it brings you a sense of security, what I give you will always be more than what anyone else can."
She stiffened the moment I said it. She looked up, a flash of complex emotion in her eyes. Pleasure? Regret? Or mockery? I couldn't tell, and I didn't want to know.
I was too tired. A fatigue that seeped from my marrow, deeper than any post-traumatic stress. I closed my eyes,仿佛 (as if) seeing the armored vehicle destroyed by an RPG all those years ago. In the fire, Kastor’s face faded away in my memory, slowly replaced by Sloane’s cold profile.
"Go to sleep," I said.
I listened to her footsteps receding toward the bedroom. Light, rhythmic, standard—perfectly calculated.
This was the last time I would indulge her, and the last time I would allow myself to sink into this deadly relationship. I was a commander; I could predict the flow of battle, I could plan extraction routes. But for this game called "redemption," I seemed to have already lost.
Would tomorrow bring a better day? I didn't know. I only knew that from now on, I had to act as bait, maintaining final clarity amidst the inevitable storm.
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