AN: So so sorry. I am traveling back home so it been difficult to write. I promise by Monday we will be back to the normal schedule. Happy reading.
The night was still, not quiet. It was never truly quiet in the underbelly of the imperial city. It was still, the kind of stillness that came before a storm. The kind that made even the rats pause in their scurry.
Yu Xi could have left this to someone else as Jian Ci needed him. Jian Rui calling meant it was urgent. Yu Xi's chest clenched just thinking about him being sedated and vulnerable. But this mission… this mission was personal.
The dark legacy of his father's work had been replicated in several underground labs across Orion Drift. Jian Rui had made it his mission to dismantle every last one, and Yu Xi had been his blade.
He had razed labs in the tundras of Virelia, burned bunkers buried beneath the oceans of Calyx, and shattered glass tanks filled with half-formed horrors that should never have existed.
