Chapter 16 · She survived Blackwater

He moved toward the console, but the document expanded before he could touch it.

Pages of consent forms. Risk assessments. Incident reports.

Most of the names were blacked out.

Not all of them.

VOLUNTEER 01: DR. EVELYN ZHAO.

VOLUNTEER 02: MIRA SOH.

Celine stared at Mira's name.

The woman wearing her face upstairs. The woman in the company videos. The woman who had been living as Vault Bio's COO while Celine woke up in somebody else's hospital bed with no money and a countdown in her brain.

Mira Soh had been in this room.

"She survived Blackwater," Celine said.

Ethan didn't answer.

She turned on him. "You knew."

"I knew there was one survivor. I didn't know it was her."

"Bullshit."

"Celine, I didn't know she took your identity."

"But you knew she was here. You knew she was in this building."

His jaw tightened.

"I knew there was someone inside trying to destroy Vault Bio," he said. "That's why I became Diver."

The name hit the room harder than it should have.

Diver.

The anonymous messages. The copied internal files. The warning that led her back to Vault Bio.