Security Breach: The Last Shift

Previously

…The floor beneath me buckled. Metal groaned, twisted, and tore. The containment breach was no longer a distant threat; it was a ravenous maw opening in the heart of the facility. My last shift had just begun, and it was a fight for everything. Not to escape, but to hold the line. To become the warden Aris Thorne had intended, not out of duty, but out of love. For my family. For the world that had no idea how close it had come to oblivion. The architect’s shadow had loomed over me my entire life, but now, standing in the heart of the storm, I knew I had to forge my own path through the darkness. And it would be a path paved with blood, fire, and the desperate, primal instinct to protect.