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CHAPTER 125

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The convoy rolled out without headlights. The engines are low and the tires drove through the service road in silence behind the old industrial district.

The converted storage facility loomed ahead. The structure is windowless, silent, its corrugated metal skin reflecting the thin sliver of moonlight like a blade.

Inside that building was the medical relay team that Althea supervises.

Doctors. Field medics. Four nurses. A trauma tech.

Civilians in the middle of a war they never asked for.

Domin
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  • His Dead Wife: No Longer the Surrogate Bride   CHAPTER 250

    “DOMINIC!” Luca’s voice roared through the tunnels. Another explosion shook the corridor violently. “You should’ve stayed at Blackstone!”Dominic advanced instead.“YOU F8CKING SHOULD’VE STAYED AWAY FROM MY FAMILY!” He yelled angrily.More blood and gunfire started to exchange again, the tunnel becoming war itself. The unknown operators attacked from the upper ridges again suddenly.This time, they are hitting Luca’s men directly where three men dropped instantly.Another tumbled screaming into the lower shaft below.“They’re everywhere!” Aurelio cursed sharply as he took a shot.“No, they’re not.” Reyes muttered grimly beside Dominic. He looked towards Luca and his men before staring towards the direction of the gunfire from the unknown operators. “They’re herding us.”Realization hit Dominic immediately on their every movement, every engagement and every tunnel split.The one Althea found. He thought hardly.The Axis Gate kept compressing all three groups toward the same convergence

  • His Dead Wife: No Longer the Surrogate Bride   CHAPTER 249

    The Axis Gate fought back with no mercy and Dominic understood it now.The Gate itself resisted intrusion like a living thing buried beneath centuries of stone and blood.The deeper they descended, the worse it became.Gunfire thundered endlessly through the tunnels.Muzzle flashes erupted violently against ancient walls while three separate forces collided beneath the earth in a storm of violence and confusion.Dominic’s men.The unknown operators.Luca’s network.Somewhere beneath all of it, the Axis Gate is manipulating them all.“LEFT!” Dominic shouted over the chaos while firing toward the advancing corridor ahead.One of Luca’s men dropped instantly, blood spraying against the stone before another rushed into position behind him.Explosions shook the tunnel violently and dust cascaded from above.The walls groaned like the mountain itself resented their presence.Michael moved beside Dominic with brutal precision, eliminating another approaching shooter before dragging one wound

  • His Dead Wife: No Longer the Surrogate Bride   CHAPTER 248

    The descent finally began slowly and the tunnels swallowed the sound almost immediately.Stone walls narrowed around them while overhead lights attached to tactical gear cast shifting shadows across ancient surfaces carved long before any of them were born.Water dripped steadily somewhere deeper below.The air started to smell metallic and old like buried history and rust.And worst of all, the tunnels felt wrong.Althea had warned them repeatedly.“Pressure manipulation.” She enumerated dozens of times. “Behavioral funneling. Instinctive directional control. You have to focus.”Now Dominic understood exactly what she meant.Every few minutes, his body would automatically want to turn right despite logic telling him otherwise.The tunnels subtly curved.Perspective shifted and the space started to compress unevenly.Psychological architecture. Dominic thought darkly.Sebastian muttered quietly behind him, “This place is engineered to make people panic.”“It’s working.” Enzo answered

  • His Dead Wife: No Longer the Surrogate Bride   CHAPTER 247

    Only the faint glow of dashboard instruments illuminated the inside of the armored vehicles as the convoy moved without headlights.Dominic led the descent northward through abandoned mountain roads few people even knew existed anymore.Rain fell intermittently but it was not enough to slow their movement but it did make the darkness heavier as the drive continues.More suffocating.Inside the lead vehicle, nobody spoke for nearly twenty minutes. Their weapons are rested ready while maps remained open across Sebastian’s lap and the men are looking at them from time to time.Vincent continuously monitored the encrypted movement tracker while Michael reviewed the last structural overlays Althea gave them before leaving.Enzo meanwhile stared out the window like a man reconsidering every life decision that brought him here.“I hate tunnels.” He muttered but no one answered. He let out a heavy sigh. “You know what’s beneath tunnels?”Sebastian rubbed tiredly at his forehead.“Please don’t

  • His Dead Wife: No Longer the Surrogate Bride   CHAPTER 246

    Althea nodded once before she finally stepped fully into the operation.The surgery began immediately.Scalp incision.Bone access.Pressure release.Too much blood appeared almost instantly.“Suction.” Althea instructed firmly.The nurses around her moved quickly.AURELIA projected vascular overlays across the monitor while Althea’s hands moved with terrifying precision beneath the surgical lights.“Pressure rising, Doctor.” The junior doctor informed her calmly.“I see it.”Microfractures spread deeper through the cranial plate than expected.The swelling worsened and beneath it, rupture risk climbed rapidly.Helena monitored the secondary displays beside her.“Temporal artery integrity collapsing.” She quickly relayed.Althea’s jaw tightened faintly.“Clamp.”Tool exchanged instantly and the operating room became rhythm.Movement.Control.Minutes disappeared, turning into hours.Despite that, Dominic remained inside her mind.Every time the monitors stabilized briefly, her thought

  • His Dead Wife: No Longer the Surrogate Bride   CHAPTER 245

    The convoy carrying Althea cut through the highway long after Dominic’s team disappeared into the night.Rain had started somewhere beyond the mountains and roads started to get slick and dark. The direction almost empty except for occasional checkpoints Helena’s operators cleared ahead of them.Inside the armored vehicle, silence pressed heavily against the windows.Not the peaceful silence but the kind that came before blood, uncertainty and waiting.Althea sat near the center of the vehicle with the patient file open across her lap while Helena reviewed scans projected through the portable system beside her.Neurovascular trauma.Massive cranial injury.Multiple arterial compromise.Possible brain swelling already progressing.And beneath every clinical detail is time that is running out quickly.“He’s young.” Helena murmured quietly while enlarging another scan.Althea’s eyes scanned the imaging automatically. “Shearing near the temporal lobe.” She only murmured back and then slid

  • His Dead Wife: No Longer the Surrogate Bride   CHAPTER 88

    THIS CHAPTER CONTAINS MATURE CONTENT. PLEASE READ WITH DISCRETION.Althea held onto Dominic as he scooped her up in his arms and placed her on the middle of the bed and immediately sandwiching her between his legs. She tilted her face up to him when he lowered his head to her.“I’m not going to hol

  • His Dead Wife: No Longer the Surrogate Bride   CHAPTER 87

    THIS CHAPTER CONTAINS MATURE CONTENT. PLEASE READ WITH DISCRETION.Dominic gripped Althea’s hips tightly, pulling her to him as he continued to kissed her hungrily. He could hear her making moaning sounds at the back of her throat.The moment she finally stepped out from her dress that pooled on he

  • His Dead Wife: No Longer the Surrogate Bride   CHAPTER 85

    “Enough.”Aurelio closed his mouth, stopping himself from continuing when his father raised his voice a bit to get their attention.Luca’s gaze slid to Althea, assessing her quietly.“You’ve been delivering results, Althea.” He said seriously. “That speaks louder than suspicion.”“For now.” Aurelio

  • His Dead Wife: No Longer the Surrogate Bride   CHAPTER 84

    It has been more than a month since Althea had been back inside the Valtieri orbit.Long enough for routine to return in her system, to feel ordinary for every danger and long enough for her name to be spoken without hesitation.Althea Valtieri, as an asset of the Valtieri empire.Luca wasted no ti

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