Chapter 4 — Into the Shadows

Lucy Carter

The day’s hum of activity had faded into eerie quiet, leaving only the low, steady pulse of VeilTech’s infrastructure. Lucy stepped into the elevator, her breath shallow as the doors slid shut behind her. The bright upper floors disappeared one by one as the elevator descended, the faint mechanical vibrations matching the rhythm of her pounding pulse. In her hand, Marcus’s badge felt heavier than it should, a forbidden key to the answers she sought.