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Chapter 48: The Thorne Lineage
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Dear Billionaire Ex, I am more than an arranged marriage Chapter 48: The Thorne Lineage
Ari Thorne wasn’t just a little girl anymore. She was the key. The living key. This truth hit Lucian like a punch to the gut. The one thing that could unlock the full power of the quantum reactor. And suddenly, everything made sense and it made him sick.He sat in the secure conference room, but it no longer felt secure. It felt tight, like the walls were closing in. His chest was heavy. The kind of heavy that came from heartbreak, guilt, and fear, all at once.He buried his face in his hands. His strong shoulders trembled with the weight of it all. “Ari,” he whispered, his voice cracked and broken. “My God. All this time… I blamed Eva. I fought Derek. I was so focused on the past… and it was always this. My family’s twisted legacy. My grandfather’s obsession with genetics. I never saw it coming. I never realized… she was the target all along.”He lifted his face slowly. His eyes, usually sharp and in control, were now full of pain as he looked at Eva. “This is my fault. All of it.”E
Dear Billionaire Ex, I am more than an arranged marriage Chapter 47: The Living Key
The soft hum of the private jet filled the cabin, calm and steady, so different from the chaos they’d left behind in the Alps. Eva and Lucian sat side by side, still catching their breath. Their bodies were finally slowing down, but their minds were racing. The horror of what they’d discovered hadn’t left them. Not even close.Back at Thorne Capital, Izzy’s voice came through the comms, full of energy and nerves. She had already started digging through the data drive they’d recovered from Finch’s hideout.“Guys,” she said, her voice crackling with emotion, “this is huge. Finch’s theory about the ‘living key’ is real. And it’s unbelievably detailed. He believed the quantum field could be influenced by a specific human genetic sequence. Not just thoughts or emotions, but something biological. Like a person whose body gives off a natural signal. A living antenna.”Lucian’s face tightened. “You mean... a person. A real, living person could control the field?”“Exactly,” Izzy replied. “And
Dear Billionaire Ex, I am more than an arranged marriage Chapter 46: Alpine Shadows
The icy wind howled through the mountains, cutting through their coats and biting at their skin. It was a sharp change from the warm, sticky air they’d left behind on the Pacific coast. Lucian, Eva, and Marcus moved quickly and quietly across the snowy path, their breath rising in white clouds as they climbed higher into the Alps. Every step had been carefully planned. They knew Margaret’s surveillance reached far, so this mission had to be perfect.Their plane had touched down at a quiet, hidden airstrip hours earlier. From there, they had driven rough, all-terrain vehicles through narrow, frozen mountain roads. It was a long, tense journey. The weather was brutal. The paths were barely roads at all, it was just icy tracks hugging the side of cliffs. But the real danger wasn’t the cold or the steep drop-offs. It was the fear that someone might be watching.Lucian’s security team picked up small signs. Strange heat signatures from hidden cameras. Old footprints in places no hiker shou
Dear Billionaire Ex, I am more than an arranged marriage Chapter 45: The Architect’s Shadow
Eva had always trusted her gut. Years of chasing stories, digging through lies, had sharpened her instincts. This time, they led her to a name that had almost been erased from history…..Dr. Alistair Finch.He wasn’t just another scientist. Finch had once been one of the brightest minds in quantum research. He was brilliant, yes, but also difficult. In the early days, before Vance built the Syndicate, Finch had been his partner. Back when their wild theories were laughed at, not feared. But where Vance leaned into control and dominance, Finch had taken a different path, he took the path that explored how living beings might interact with the quantum world.Izzy dug deeper into Finch’s background, pulling scraps of information from forgotten databases. She found that Finch had vanished from public life years ago, shortly after a very ugly fight with Vance. The last trace of him was from a research facility buried deep in the European Alps.“Finch,” Lucian said under his breath, eyes nar
Dear Billionaire Ex, I am more than an arranged marriage Chapter 44: The Ghost in the Machine
The strange signal Izzy had found, what she called the “stabilization signature” quickly became the center of their world. It wasn’t just a technical detail anymore; it felt like the one thread that could unravel Aethelgard’s threat. Eva and Lucian spent hours buried in Vance’s old diagrams and Finch’s scattered notes. They sat side by side, sometimes not speaking for long stretches, their minds locked in the same focused rhythm.Izzy, drifting like a ghost through layers of secure servers, finally broke through another wall of Vance’s old code. Her voice came alive in the comms, a little breathless.“It’s not just a signal,” she said. “It’s a resonance. A pattern. Vance called it ‘The Ghost in the Machine.’ It’s weird, guys… almost like it thinks for itself. He believed the quantum field didn’t just follow physical laws, it could respond to human consciousness. Emotional energy. Like, who we are could influence it at that level.”Eva sat up straighter, eyes wide. “Then it’s not about
Dear Billionaire Ex, I am more than an arranged marriage Chapter 43: The Quiet Before Collapse
Back in San Francisco, the buzz of Thorne Capital’s headquarters felt normal compared to the chaos they had just escaped. The building was all glass and steel, humming with energy and whispers. Reporters were still poking around, and the boardroom had become a place of carefully rehearsed speeches and quiet panic.But Lucian walked through it all with the calm of a man who refused to show any cracks. He told the board a clean, tidy version of the truth, he said there were “technical problems” at a remote research site. It wasn’t a lie, but it was far from the full story. Still, he looked steady. Strong. In control.Eva watched him from a distance, admiring how well he played his part. Even when everything underneath was breaking apart, Lucian Thorne could wear a mask like no one else.And for a short while, it worked. Their return to the city gave them a moment to breathe.When Lucian stepped into the penthouse, Ari came running. She threw herself into his arms, laughing, her face lig
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