–Sophia–
Aunt Ines didn't hesitate. The moment Livana announced the lockdown—forty-seven hours before it would be enforced—she moved us out of the laboratory without delay.
Dr. White came with us. So did her father, Commander Dmitri White.
Everything had already been prepared.
A secluded concrete house—quiet, unassuming, yet fortified like a silent fortress. Beneath it, a panic room built of reinforced steel, fully equipped with medical machinery, stocked medicines, preserved food, and every essential needed to survive isolation.
It was a sanctuary disguised as a home.
The journey took three hours.
But the helicopter cut through the sky smoothly, its steady hum the only thing grounding me as I sat beside Kai, watching the world blur beneath us.
When we arrived, everything was ready.
Our room was on the first floor—strategically placed for easy access to the underground panic room. The house itself was pristine. Organized. Almost too perfect.
