Mag-log inLucas Bennett is perfection. He is silent, elegant and untouchable. The world thinks he’s the most beloved person at Adrian Chase’s side: the CEO’s obsession, his treasure, his pride and his everything. Nevertheless, love doesn’t feel like this, not when your body isn’t yours and not when your past has been erased. Not when the man who touches you is the same one who destroyed your life. Adrian gave Lucas everything: beauty, luxury, and a place beside him, but Lucas wants only one thing in return: his life back. Therefore, he’s willing to burn Adrian’s world to ashes to get it.
view moreThe words on the car screen stayed there even after Marcus killed the display.Bring him, or we wake Milo.Lucas stared at the black screen, but he could still see the white letters burned into it. His body had stopped shaking, yet the fear had not left. It had only changed shape.Milo.The name sat inside him like a hand reaching through a wall.Noah looked at Lucas, then at Adrian. “Whoever sent that knows the files copied.”Marcus drove faster through the rain. “They also know our car system. I am switching routes.”Adrian’s voice was cold. “Do it.”Lucas turned slowly. “Do not speak over me like I am not here.”Adrian looked at him. “You are barely conscious.”“I am conscious enough to know that message was for me.”“It was a trap.”“It was Milo.”No one answered.That silence made Lucas’s chest tighten. He touched the coat where Daniel’s photograph rested. His father had left proof. The proof had led to Facility N-17. Facility N-17 had led to Milo. Every answer opened another wou
Lucas remembered the voice before he remembered the face.It came from far away, the kind of voice a person used when asking a child to stop crying. That made it worse. Cruel voices were easier to fear. Gentle ones could enter the mind and stay there.Adrian carried him through the red-lit hallway while alarms pulsed around them. Marcus moved ahead. Noah ran behind them with Daniel’s box pressed against his chest. The doctor shouted that Lucas should not be moved, but no one listened.Lucas barely heard him.The voice from the screen kept playing inside his head.Elias, come home.His ribs burned with each step. The chip pulsed as if it was happy to be remembered. Lucas dug his fingers into Adrian’s coat, not for comfort, but to stay awake.“I know him,” Lucas whispered.Adrian’s arms tightened. “Do not follow the memory.”Lucas gave a weak laugh. “You think memories ask permission?”Adrian said nothing.They reached the service elevator, but Marcus stopped short. “No.”The numbers ab
Pain pulled Lucas under before he could fight it.One moment, Adrian’s arms were around him. The next, the clinic lights stretched into white lines, and every sound became far away. Noah was shouting. Marcus was ordering the doors locked. Somewhere, the technician cried that the system was still connected.Lucas heard none of it clearly.The beep inside him became louder than all their voices.It was not just a sound anymore. It felt like a hand inside his ribs, pressing, turning, reminding his body that it had never fully belonged to him.Adrian lowered him to the floor. “Lucas, stay with me.”Lucas wanted to laugh, but the pain swallowed it.Lucas.That name was soft in Adrian’s mouth, careful and almost desperate. But beneath it, another name opened like a wound.Elias.A white room flashed behind his eyes. A thin boy curled beside a wall. Small fingers pushed under a door and touched his.“Do not forget,” the boy whispered.Lucas gasped.“Milo,” he breathed.Adrian froze above him
The beep followed Lucas into the car.It was not loud, yet he heard it beneath everything. Rain struck the windows. Noah breathed hard beside him. Marcus spoke into a phone in the front seat, giving orders in a voice too calm for what had just happened.But Lucas heard only the sound under his ribs.Beep.Beep.Beep.Adrian sat beside him, one hand near Lucas’s shoulder but not touching him. That almost made Lucas angry. After everything, Adrian was still careful in the wrong ways.“Stop looking at me,” Lucas said.Adrian’s eyes did not move. “Your face is losing color.”“My face belongs to me. Let it lose anything it wants.”Noah looked between them. “This is not the time.”Lucas turned on him. “You do not get to choose the time either.”Noah went quiet.The scar burned again, and Lucas bent forward, clutching the metal box to his chest. The flash drive was hidden in his fist. The silver key pressed against his palm. His father’s photograph sat inside his coat like a warm wound.Adri
Lucas woke to the smell of smoke.For one strange second, he thought the room was burning. His eyes flew open, and his hand clawed at the sheet, searching for heat, ash, anything that proved the memory had followed him into the real world.There was no fire.There was only Adrian’s bedroom light ab
Adrian did not move.For the first time since Lucas had known him, the man looked as if someone had taken the air out of the room and left him standing inside it. His hand was still on Lucas’s shoulder, but his fingers had gone stiff.Lucas could barely breathe. The pain under his ribs was still th
Morning came without warmth.Lucas opened his eyes and stared at the ceiling. For a few seconds, he did not move. The room was quiet, but the silence did not calm him. It only brought back everything from the night before.Adrian’s voice.The mirror.The corrections.The way his body had gone stiff
The door shut behind them with a quick sound that seemed loud in the dark hallway. Lucas stopped, his heart beating fast, as Adrian’s hand rested gently on his lower back, guiding him into the clean, modern living room. No one spoke yet—just the feeling of Adrian being there, quietly saying that Lu












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