Chapter 11: The Woman in Black
> [System Alert: Olivia Grayson – Signal Terminated]
[Final Location: Garden Maze, East Wing]
[Unknown Entity Identified – Designation: "Null Sync"]
[Threat Level: Extreme]
Charles didn’t wait.
He left Isabella breathless and flushed against the wall, her gown halfway undone, her lips parted in confusion and desire. His heartbeat thundered like war drums. Olivia’s signal was gone. Not flickering. Not damaged.
Erased.
And Lust Sync was warning him the enemy wasn’t just using another version of the system. This woman wasn’t bound by it at all.
Null Sync.
Someone who negated everything Lust Sync stood for.
He burst out into the cool night air, the garden looming ahead in mist and moonlight. Ivy-covered archways stretched before him, paths twisting through hedges too tall to see over. Lanterns flickered low, casting dim golden glows—but even that couldn’t touch the darkness curling deeper within.