Chapter 16 - THE NIGHT THE ARCHIVE BURNEDThe Harlow research facility caught fire at 2:13 a.m.
Not an accident.
Kessler had initiated Continuity.
Servers burned.
Paper archives disappeared.
But Rebecca had already copied the master index.
Kessler fled.
Federal agents pursued him toward a private airfield.
Noah refused to remain behind.
At the hangar, Kessler confronted him.
“You think your mother won?”
Noah said nothing.
“She spent twenty years protecting secrets.”
“No.”
Noah stepped closer.
“She spent twenty years choosing when the truth could survive.”
Kessler smiled.
“You still don't understand what Thomas did.”
Noah froze.
Kessler claimed Thomas had personally altered Noah's genetic records.
Mercer arrived with agents.
Kessler was arrested.
But before being taken away, he looked back at Noah.
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“Ask Rebecca why your mother needed two paternity tests.”
The question remained.
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