Chapter 40 The Vault Line

(Dual POV: Zuri & Amani)

ZURI

The ridge rises like a scar against the dawn.

From up here, the world feels carved in two — the forest we came from, and the valley below, where concrete mouths yawn open between rusted rails and collapsed hangars. The old Syndicate vaults. My father’s ghosts.

The w...

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