Chapter 37: A Desperate Gambit.

Night was deathly still as Chloe crept through the dimly lit halls of the Archonic Collective's secret compound. Her heart roared within her ears with every step, the weight of the world bearing down on her shoulders. In the two weeks following the explosive confrontation at the abandoned factory, Chloe and Liam had been forced deeper into hiding as they regrouped. They hit hard at the remains of Archonic, systematically dismantling the organization's assets and shell companies wherever they could. And the enemy was far more deeply entrenched and pervasive than could ever have been imagined. For every operation that was blown, two more grew in their place, like the heads of a serpent, severed but endlessly regenerating. Duvall's death had only served to embolden his fanatics in their quest to "elevate" humanity through genetic engineering and ascension to a new plane of existence. So now Chloe finds herself within the viper's nest itself: Archonic's heavily fortified central command