The Rise Of The Betrayed Luna (Amorah and Holmes) novel Chapter 160

Chapter 160

The room Mayed tense after the las

repeated itself on the screen.

The intelligence wolves kept their distance from the main console because nobody wanted to be the one to accidentally trigger whatever had just responded back to us

1 stayed seated, but I could feel how every second of silence was making the sirvation heavier.

Conrad gave a short command. Lock the system into passive trace mode. No direct queries

One of the wolves nodded quickly, “Already done, Alpha. We’re routing through a secondary layer to avoid backlash.” Zane leaned closer to the table, eyes fixed on the screen. “So it’s alive. That system is actually answering us.

“It’s not alive” another wolf replied. “It’s reactive code tied to old council infrastructure.”

Kyra frowned. “That sounds like alive with extra steps.”

No one corrected her this time. Even Conrad didn’t.

I placed my hand lightly on my stomach as the baby shifted again, more active now than before. It always happened when the atmosphere changed too sharply, like it could sense when things were turning dangerous.

Conrad noticed immediately and moved closer. “Breathe normally,” he said quietly.

“I am breathing normally”

“You are not,” he replied.

I almost argued, but stopped when I realized he wasn’t trying to control me. He was just trying to keep me steady enough to stay present

The intelligence team shifted focus again, pulling up deeper archives from the same signal route.

The screens filled with broken fragments of encrypted council pathways most of them labeled as permanently erased after the old succession purge

One of the wolves spoke up after a long scan. “We’re not getting standard interference. It’s like the syftem is… expecting us.

“Expecting us?” Kyra repeated.

Zane leaned forward. “Or expecting “her*”

His eyes moved toward me when he said it, and I didn’t miss it

Conrad immediately responded. “Explain”

Zane hesitated, “Every time the system responds, the encryption aligns with Amorah’s old protection signature. Not council–level access. Personal–level routing

The room went quieter again.

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Conrad’s expression tightened. “Those were dumangled”

“They were “supposed to be dismantled, Zane corrected quietly.

That earned hiroya look from Tone don’t back down

The system flickered again.

This time, a partial map appeared on the screen. It wasn’t complete, but it was enough to recognize sections of vid territory

than had been atyandoud year

Then another line appeared beneath it

BRING THE FOURTH CHILD HOME BEFORE HE REACHES THE FACILITY

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felt my chest tighters slightly. “le Hole

Conrad didn’t answer innnnesiaely.this paw had already tightened in a waynerg

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Vel, he said finally

Kyra blinked. “Why is he everywhere suddenly?”

“Because he’s moving faster than we are.” Zane replied.

One of the wolves stepped forward. “Alpha, we’ve identified a physical anchor point ned to this vignal

Conrad looked at him. “Location”

The wolf hesitated before answering. “An abandoned medical facility. Outer forest bouwlary Council pris! collapse”

The word “medical” made something in my stomach twist. I didn’t like the direction this was going

Conrad noticed my reaction immediately. “You are not going there.”

I looked at him. “We don’t even know what’s there yet.”

“That’s exactly why you are not going,” he said firmly.

Kyra raised her hand slightly. “Can I also vote no on going? Because this sounds like the kind of place people disappear

Zane nodded. “Statistically, she is correct.”

No one laughed.

The system flickered one last time. Then the voice returned, clearer than before.

“Bring the fourth child home before Holmes reaches the facility!

The screens went black immediately after.

The blackout didn’t end the tension in the room. It only shifted it into something heavier, like the air itself had become unstable.

One of the intelligence wolves tried to reboot the system manually. “We’ve lost the feed. Whatever that was, it cut itself clean.”

“Not clean,” Zane said immediately. “It left pressure traces in the routing logs.”

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Conrad stepped closer to the console. “Recover anything you can. Even fragments.”

The wolf nodded and started working faster, fingers moving across the interface with practiced urgency. “We’re pulling backup echoes now. It might take a minute.”

Kyra stayed unusually close to me instead of wandering. She held onto the edge of my sleeve like she was pretending it was casual. “Amorah… it said fourth child again.”

“I heard it,” I replied softly.

Her voice dropped. “Do you think it means someone like… another kid like us?”

Zane answered before I could. “Or it means we were never the full set.”

That sentence landed wrong in the room. Even Conrad looked at him sharply.

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The system flickered one more time of a secondary monitor, not fully active, just a residual pulse.

A single coordinate flashed briefly before disappearing.

Conrad locked onto it instantly, “Mark that location. Now”

The wolf obeyed.

And as the final trace locked in, the system left one last fragmented audio burst–too distorted to fully understand, but one phrase came through clearly enough to freeze everyone in place:

“She’s already awake.

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