CHAPTER 9 – “THE NAME BURIED UNDER LILY”
CHAPTER 9 – “THE NAME BURIED UNDER LILY”
The blackout lasted only seconds.
But in those seconds, everything changed.
Vincent held Lily tightly as emergency lights flickered back on, casting broken shadows across the hallway.
She wasn’t breathing normally anymore.
It wasn’t panic.
It was recognition.
Her fingers pressed against her temples.
“No…” she whispered again, but weaker this time. “It’s coming back.”
Marco moved closer. “Lily, look at me—breathe.”
But she wasn’t looking at him.
Her eyes were somewhere else.
Somewhere far below memory.
And then—
It hit.
A flash.
A white room.
A metal chair.
Her real name spoken by a woman in a lab coat.
Not Lily.
Elena Virelli.
Her knees buckled.
Vincent caught her before she hit the ground.
And in that moment, the estate stopped being a home.
It became a lock.
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And she had just remembered she was the key.
