Chapter 104 Ethan Attacks Rome

• Rome had never seemed so vulnerable.
• Zoe knew it before seeing the headlines, before the news systems broadcast the first alert confirming what her instinct had already told her. The implant reacted with a faint pulse, a barely perceptible warning that traveled through her skull to the center of her chest: anomalous activity in the city. It was not fear that swept through her, but tense anticipation—the recognition that something was moving beneath the surface, something that could change everything.
• The connection between her and Ethan, broken and rebuilt so many times, still vibrated with an invisible thread he controlled, a subtle echo that reminded her that, no matter how far she tried to move away, pieces of her life could still be manipulated—threads of power and knowledge that would not break so easily. The entire city seemed to hold its breath, and with every heartbeat, Zoe felt she was at the center of a board far larger than she had imagined.