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    Something cracked. This time he felt it.

    He blinked up at the sky, the clouds smudged and low. Smoke stung his eyes. He tasted blood and ash and something worse—regret.

    He might actually die here.

    Not in a blaze of glory. Not saving anyone. Just one more body under Renata’s boots.

    And all at once, he missed him.

    Viktor.

    The thought struck like a live wire across raw nerves. Viktor should’ve been here. If anyone was going to finish this, it should’ve been him. Not faceless machines. Not Renata’s hollow soldiers.

    Jayce clenched his teeth, the motion sending white-hot pain through his skull.

    Damn you, he thought, not sure if it was grief or fury or both. You left me. You should be here.

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