Chapter 11

Armed with only the flashlight from her smartphone, Chloe descended the dusty concrete steps into the mansion's hidden basement.
The air was stale and freezing cold, smelling faintly of gunpowder and old paper documents.
At the bottom of the stairs lay a massive steel vault, locked with an advanced biometric retinal scanner.
To her absolute shock, the scanner activated automatically, a mechanical voice echoing through the dark room.
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“Welcome back, Chloe,” the automated system announced before the heavy steel doors hissed open with a loud pneumatic blast.
Her father had programmed her biometric data into a vault she never even knew existed until this very moment.