The Glass Between Us

Welcome to the Hadal Luxe.Please enjoy the reef.Please respect all safety barriers. Please don’t attempt to bribe the trilobites.Four hundred feet beneath the Pacific, I built the impossible:

a pressure-glass paradise where billionaires sip cocktails beside a resurrected Cambrian reef.Ancient life, modern engineering, and the most advanced containment systems in the world holding it all in place.At least, that’s what the models say.When Kevin, the reef’s apex predator, begins changing his patrol route, I call it variance.

But the deeper the anomalies spread, the harder it becomes to ignore the truth: the reef isn’t just alive.It’s evolving.Trapped below with me are three men who see me too clearly.

Dutch, who trusts my commands even when the walls start breathing.Reyes, the engineer who can feel the facility failing through his hands.And Holden, the ex who once loved me, left me, and has arrived just in time to judge every terrible choice I make.The only way out is through the bay.Kevin already knows that.

And he’s learning how doors work.