Chapter 39: The Veil Rises.

The dim light of the displays within the monitoring station gave Chloe's face an unhealthy glow as she scrutinized the feeds playing through those screens. Her fingers flew over haptic interfaces with her jaw set in determined concentration, trying hard to make sense of the flood of coded transmissions and fragments of intel. It had been a day and a half since Liam had disappeared without a trace from their safe house in Praxidyn City. One moment he was beside her, going over the plan to infiltrate the newly revealed Singularity facility, and the next he was just gone—as though he had been swallowed up by the night itself. Anja and her team combed the place with a fine-toothed comb, but nothing betrayed signs of struggle or foul play. There is no proof of the taking of Liam against his will or by force. It was like he had willingly stepped into the vast crowds of the megacity, lost in the wind like a specter. Chloe knew he'd never do that, not after everything they'd been through tog