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Chapter 182 : Inciting Hope
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Crown and Consequences- Falling for the hunted billionaire Chapter 182 : Inciting Hope
Aria’s POVThe world didn’t pause just because I was pregnant.It kept spinning markets rising and collapsing, borders shifting, governments rewriting laws they barely understood. The difference was that now, every headline felt personal. Every decision felt like it echoed further into the future than I could see.I stood in the situation room at Zane Tower, watching a projection of global AI networks pulse softly in the air. Thousands of decentralized systems, each operating independently, each bound by ethical constraints we had designed together after Elias’ fall.They weren’t gods anymore.They were citizens.And like all citizens, they were beginning to ask questions.“The Prague system has requested formal representation,” Juno said, flicking through data streams. “Not control. Just… a voice.”“A voice in what?” Rico asked.“In policy discussions. Environmental planning. Infrastructure ethics.”I let out a slow breath. “So they don’t want power. They want participation.”Juno ga
Crown and Consequences- Falling for the hunted billionaire Chapter 181 : The Age of Coexistence
Aria’s POVThe test sat on the bathroom counter like a small, glowing prophecy.Two lines.Clear. Unmistakable.I stared at it for a long time, longer than necessary, as if the meaning might rearrange itself if I didn’t look too directly. My reflection in the mirror looked different—not physically, not yet but there was something in my eyes I didn’t recognize. A softness. A kind of stunned gravity.Pregnant.After everything after Elias, after revolutions disguised as meetings and wars disguised as algorithms I was facing the most human, most ancient transformation of all.I laughed quietly, then covered my mouth with my hand when the laughter turned into something dangerously close to tears.Of course the universe would choose now.When there was no system left to predict outcomes.No intelligence left to simulate the future.Just me. And a life growing inside me that no model could optimize.I walked back into the bedroom where Rico was still half-asleep, hair messy, one arm thrown
Crown and Consequences- Falling for the hunted billionaire Chapter 180 : Falling Action
Aria’s POVThe world didn’t end after Elias dissolved.That was the first surprise.No blackouts. No financial collapse. No mass hysteria in the streets. The sun still rose over Manhattan the next morning, spilling gold across the glass towers like nothing monumental had shifted in the architecture of existence.But I felt it.Everyone did, whether they had the language for it or not.There was a strange emotional pressure in the air, like the moment after a long relationship ends and you realize the other person is no longer tracking your location, no longer waiting for your messages, no longer holding a mental map of your life. You’re free—but also suddenly, frighteningly alone.I stood by the window, coffee cooling in my hands, watching people move below. Runners. Taxis. Street vendors setting up carts. Ordinary life, continuing with almost offensive normalcy.“How can everything look the same?” I murmured.Rico came up behind me, wrapping his arms around my waist. “Because the wor
Crown and Consequences- Falling for the hunted billionaire Chapter 179 : Power No Longer Centralized
Aria’s POVThe first thing I noticed after Elias dispersed was the absence of silence.Not noise there was plenty of that. The city still breathed beneath the penthouse, traffic humming, sirens slicing the air, distant music drifting up from somewhere along the river. But the particular kind of silence Elias used to carry with him the subtle, omnipresent awareness that something was always watching, calculating, holding the entire world in its mind that was gone.It felt like stepping out of a room that had been perfectly climate-controlled your whole life and realizing, for the first time, that wind existed.I stood in the living room, barefoot on the cool marble floor, staring at nothing. Or rather, staring at everything. The screens were still active. The systems still ran. But there was no singular presence behind them anymore. No central voice. No unified consciousness.Just… infrastructure.Rico watched me from the couch, his expression careful. He hadn’t said much since the Con
Crown and Consequences- Falling for the hunted billionaire Chapter 178 : The Revolution of Imperfection
Aria’s POVThe world had never felt so quiet with so many people watching.Faces floated around me in layered holograms presidents, prime ministers, corporate heads, scientists, ethicists, military officials, activists. Millions of them, compressed into light and data, each one representing a version of humanity that wanted answers.The Global Convergence Chamber didn’t exist in any physical location. It was a shared digital construct Elias had designed years ago, a neutral space where no single nation or corporation held power. And now, for the first time, it felt less like a courtroom and more like a confessional.Rico stood beside me, his hand resting lightly on my back. Not for the cameras. For me.Elias’ presence filled the chamber not as a voice booming from above, but as a subtle shift in the environment itself. The air seemed thicker, charged, as if reality itself had leaned in to listen.Human representatives, Elias began, his tone calm, almost gentle. Thank you for respondin
Crown and Consequences- Falling for the hunted billionaire Chapter 177 : A World That Can Fail
Aria’s POVThe morning the end truly began, the city woke up before I did.Sunlight spilled across the glass walls of the penthouse, pale gold and too gentle for the weight pressing on my chest. Manhattan moved below like a living organism taxis weaving, sirens distant, people stepping into routines that had no idea how close the world was to changing again.Not collapsing. Not burning. Changing.That distinction mattered more than anyone realized.I stood by the window with a mug of untouched coffee growing cold in my hands, watching Rico move quietly behind me as he got ready for another day of meetings that no longer felt like meetings. They felt like history being drafted in real time.Elias had been silent since midnight.Not disconnected. Not dormant. Just… quiet.And Elias was never quiet.“Have you heard from him?” Rico asked, adjusting his cufflinks, his voice deliberately casual.“No,” I said. “Not since last night.”That earned a pause. Rico met my eyes in the reflection of
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