Chapter 71

• Serena
• I stared out of the window, my eyes tracing the darkened streets below. The world felt frozen, every villa shrouded in darkness, not a single light piercing the stillness of the night. It was unsettling, almost like the calm before a storm. The quiet stretched around me, oppressive and heavy, but I knew better than to trust it.
• Vaughn Group was a different story entirely. There, the chaos had its own heartbeat, pulsing through the walls of that monstrous building. No one was sleeping, and the city outside could feel the tremors of it.