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Chapter 154: The Breaking Point
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Forbidden never felt this good Epilogue: After the Lines Were Crossed
I still wake up sometimes expecting the hum.That low, constant vibration under the world, like something watching from behind the walls. It takes me a few seconds to remember where I am, to register the quiet, the open window, the way morning light spills across the floor without permission from any system.Then I breathe.And I remember I am free.The house is small. Intentionally so. No hidden rooms, no reinforced walls, no places designed for surveillance or control. Just wood that creaks when it settles and glass that lets the outside in.Elliot is already awake.I know because the kettle is on, because the faint scent of coffee drifts down the hallway, because some part of me has learned the rhythm of him the way I once learned danger.I pad into the kitchen barefoot.He looks up from the counter and smiles not surprised, not searching. Just… present.“Morning,” he says.“Morning,” I reply.Some days, that’s all we need.The city we chose is quieter than the one we left behind.
Forbidden never felt this good Chapter 158: What Remains After Fire
The world did not end.That was the strangest part.After everything, the system, the fractures, the choices that felt too big for one body to carry, the world simply… continued. Lights still turned on. Wind still moved through open spaces. People still woke up not knowing how close everything had come to breaking.Elliot and I stood at the edge of the platform as the facility powered down behind us. Not exploding. Not collapsing. Just shutting itself off, layer by layer, like something finally accepting it was no longer needed.No alarms chased us.No one tried to stop us.For the first time in a long while, there was no one telling me where I was allowed to exist.“You’re quiet,” Elliot said.I smiled faintly. “I’m listening.”“To what?”“To the absence,” I said. “It’s loud.”He nodded like he understood exactly what I meant.Outside, the air was colder than I expected. Clean. Untouched by hums or signals or invisible eyes tracking movement. My wristband was gone. The faint pressure
Forbidden never felt this good Chapter 157: The Thing I Finally Chose
They didn’t bind my hands.That was the first sign this was different.No restraints.No force.No cold efficiency meant to remind me I was owned.Instead, they stood back and let the room speak for them.The chamber was circular, walls layered with shifting data that never quite settled into stillness. It felt less like a courtroom and more like a mirror, every surface designed to reflect consequence rather than judgment.Adrian stayed near the entrance. Elliot was nowhere in sight.That absence hurt more than any restraint ever could.Mary’s presence was steady inside me, not overwhelming, not distant. Present in the way only someone who had already died once could be.“This is the end of their patience,” she said quietly.I swallowed. “And the beginning of mine.”The figures stepped forward at last. Three this time. Not guards. Not observers.Architects.“We will not correct you,” one of them said. “We will not erase you.”My pulse ticked faster.“You will decide,” another continue
Forbidden never felt this good Chapter 156: The System’s Last Play
The silence that followed felt heavier than anything the system had ever tried to impose on me. The air between us, between me and the man standing there, seemed to hold its breath. I could feel the pressure building, like a storm waiting to break, the hum of the system intensifying in the background.“You’ve made your choice,” he said quietly, his voice laced with something I couldn’t place, maybe disbelief, maybe the last shreds of authority the system still thought it had over me.I didn’t respond right away, not because I couldn’t find the words, but because there was nothing more to say. My choice had been made, and there was nothing he could do to take it back.I took a slow breath, steadying myself, grounding myself in this new, uncertain reality. “I have,” I said finally, my voice low but unwavering. “And it’s not the one you wanted.”“Nothing ever goes according to plan,” he muttered, almost to himself. “But you’ve crossed a line that can’t be undone.”I glanced up at him, my
Forbidden never felt this good Chapter 155: Unraveling the System
I knew the moment I stepped into the unknown that it would come to this.I could feel the weight of the system’s pulse against my skin, pressing in from every corner, as if it had been waiting for me to take the wrong step. I’d felt the walls close around me before, but this was different. This time, I wasn’t running from them. I wasn’t hiding behind walls or silence. I was facing them head on.The man before me, his presence wasn’t like the others. It wasn’t calculating, cold, or clinical. No, this one had weight. He had the kind of power that didn’t just come from the system, but from understanding what it could break, and how much more it could control by simply existing.“I warned you,” he repeated, stepping closer. His eyes weren’t soft. They were sharp, assessing, like a predator sizing up its prey. “You’ve been allowed to make choices, Cassie, but there’s a limit. You’ve crossed it.”His words didn’t faze me. They only pushed me further into resolve. Because they had always bel
Forbidden never felt this good Chapter 154: The Breaking Point
The system didn’t stop.It couldn’t.It wasn’t designed to pause. It wasn’t made to allow decision making to stand in the way of its own algorithms. It recalculated, rerouted, adjusted every point of data it could.But it didn’t anticipate me.Not anymore.The room remained still, but the tension in the air was palpable, like something about to snap. I stood there, not moving, not reacting to the system’s manipulations, but feeling them. Every hum, every flicker of the lights, every shift in the walls, it was all an attempt to bend me back into place, to force me into a role it had assigned me long ago.But I wasn’t that person.Not anymore.Adrian and Elliot stood at opposite sides of the room, their silent tension wrapping around me, suffocating and yet grounding at the same time. They were mirrors of the choices I had to make, both offering something I couldn’t claim in full. Neither of them understood, and yet, I felt that there was something in their stance that belonged, but not
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