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Glass City: The Fall of Vera Kade

chap 1

Hi, guys I’m back with a new story, I hope you like this story
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Elena 20‑year‑old whistleblower, raised by her powerful stepmother.
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Vera Kade Elena’s stepmother, CEO of a security conglomerate and secret crime boss
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Cipher 30 years old Leader of the underground hacker cell
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Shade 25 years old Member of the underground hacked cell
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Glitch 23 years old Member of the underground hacked cell
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Relay 24 years old Member of the underground hacked cell
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Ghost 27 years old Member of the underground hacked cell
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Patch 20 years old Member of the underground hacked cell
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Nox 28 years old Member of the underground hacked cell
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Detective Rourke Bitter, half‑disgraced detective who suspects Vera but lacks proof.
So let being the story
Elena watched the city rot from the penthouse windows. Vera Kade’s city. Her stepmother’s city.
Security is control, Elena, Vera always said. And control is love.
Elena
Elena
Love does not wiretap your bedroom at sixteen
Elena
Elena
Love does not make people disappear
Cipher
Cipher
You ready?
The voice bled through Elena’s earpiece, low and distorted
Elena
Elena
Ready enough
Elena
Elena
* tightened the coat around her*
Elena
Elena
* Dockside air knifed through the fabric*
Cipher
Cipher
Remember the rules
Cipher
Cipher
You don’t touch her
Cipher
Cipher
We expose her. We don’t become her
Elena
Elena
She killed people, Cipher
Elena
Elena
She made me watch what she could do
Elena
Elena
Why shouldn’t she—
Cipher
Cipher
Because we’re not writing a murder confession tonight
Cipher
Cipher
We’re writing a case file even this city can’t ignore
Author
Author
I hope you will like this story
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To be continued

chap 2

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Detective Rourke
Detective Rourke
Your stepmother owns half my department *lighting a cigarette he wasn’t allowed to have inside the precinct*
Detective Rourke
Detective Rourke
You get me evidence that stands in court, and I’ll burn what’s left of my career to use it
Elena
Elena
She doesn’t leave evidence
Detective Rourke
Detective Rourke
* A dry laugh*
Detective Rourke
Detective Rourke
Everyone leaves something. Your friends in the wires just have to show me where it’s buried
Glitch
Glitch
Pulled the blueprints on Kade Security’s data vault
Glitch
Glitch
* she typed in the encrypted chat*
Glitch
Glitch
The good news: it’s not impenetrable. The bad news: it’s suicidal
Shade
Shade
Love suicidal
Shade
Shade
Keeps things interesting
Ghost
Ghost
Focus. There’s a human in the middle of this
Ghost
Ghost
Elena, you sure
Elena
Elena
* Her fingers hovered over the keyboard*
Elena
Elena
She traffics dissidents through ‘security contracts,’ launders money through shell NGOs
Elena
Elena
and has people killed when they talk
Elena
Elena
I’m sure
Cipher
Cipher
We go in three phases
Cipher
Cipher
* said over the dim hum of the safehouse servers. Screens painted his face in shifting blues*
Cipher
Cipher
One: we steal. Two: we leak. Three: we protect Elena when Vera comes hunting
Nox
Nox
And the detective?
Cipher
Cipher
He’s our public face
Cipher
Cipher
He waves the files in front of the cameras while we keep the system from erasing them
Patch
Patch
Mirror nodes set
Patch
Patch
*she said* Once the data goes out, even Vera’s cleaners can’t scrub it all
Elena
Elena
She’ll come for me first *whispered *
Elena
Elena
She always does
Cipher
Cipher
Good. Let her
Elena
Elena
* She frowned* That’s your plan?
Cipher
Cipher
You’re the bait, Elena. But this time, the trap’s wired to her own weapons

chap 3

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Shade
Shade
In*murmured, sliding an access card through the reader*
Shade
Shade
* The lock turned green* Tell your stepmom her security standards are embarrassing
Relay
Relay
Internal cams looped for ninety seconds,
Relay
Relay
After that, the building sees everything again. Move
Elena
Elena
* heart hammered as they slipped into the chilled corridor*
Elena
Elena
* Doors without handles, glass panels with hidden sensors, the faint buzz of servers beneath the floor*
Elena
Elena
This is where she keeps them
Elena
Elena
The contracts. The kill orders. The recordings
Ghost
Ghost
Room 7C. Biometric lock. Elena, your han
Elena
Elena
* The scanner warmed under her palm*
* A soft chime followed. The door unsealed. Of course Vera had keyed the vault to her*
Glitch
Glitch
Motherload
Glitch
Glitch
* breathed, fingers already dancing over a portable terminal*
Glitch
Glitch
Encrypted case files, off‑ledger accounts, video archives. She didn’t just keep receipts, she framed them
Elena
Elena
*On one screen, a frozen frame: Vera in a pristine white suit, shaking hands with a man Elena remembered as*
Elena
Elena
Uncle Marek *Uncle Marek had* vanished *in a car accident two years ago*
Elena
Elena
Can you get audio?
Patch
Patch
Already did
Patch
Patch
* A hiss, then Vera’s voice*
Patch
Patch
Make sure the body is unrecoverable. I don’t want the police mistaking incompetence for rebellion
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Author
Author
Happy New Year to all my readers! Wishing you a wonderful year and that all your wishes come true
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To be continued
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