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THE PULSE BENEATH HER SKIN
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2025-10-12 15:06:04Lena woke to the faint hum of generators. The air smelled of antiseptic and rain-soaked metal. Fluorescent lights buzzed above her, sharp and cold. For a moment, she didn’t know where she was.
Then memory struck — the glass, Victor’s warning, Adrian’s arms catching her as everything faded to black. She sat up too quickly. Pain pulsed through her abdomen like fire, dragging a gasp from her throat. The room around her wasn’t Adrian’s penthouse anymore. This place was smaller, darker — a converted underground bunker by the looks of it. Computers lined one wall, cables snaking across the floor like veins. A door hissed open. Adrian stepped in. His shirt was unbuttoned at the collar, dark stubble shadowing his jaw. There were circles under his eyes, and tension in every movement. “You’re awake,” he said quietly. She swallowed, throat dry. “Where are we?” “My safehouse outside the city. No signals in or out. They can’t trace us here.” Her pulse quickened. “Victor—?” “Gone,” Adrian cut in. “When you collapsed, he said you needed help. Then he left. I don’t know if he’s working with them or not.” Lena tried to stand, but he was beside her instantly, a steady hand on her shoulder. “Easy. You fainted from stress and exhaustion. And…” His gaze flicked toward her stomach, hesitant. “Something else.” She followed his eyes, then froze. Her skin beneath the thin hospital gown was glowing faintly. Not a bright light — just a soft, shifting luminescence that pulsed beneath the surface like liquid moonlight. “Adrian…” Her voice shook. “What’s happening to me?” He didn’t answer immediately. Instead, he turned to the monitor and pulled up a series of medical scans. “I ran some tests while you were unconscious.” The screen displayed her bloodwork — the red cells altered, their cores shifting with strange bioluminescent threads. “It’s rewriting your DNA,” he said at last, voice low and hoarse. “Whatever they put inside you — it’s not human.” Her breath caught. “You mean the baby?” Adrian’s jaw tightened. “I mean both of you. The child’s development is… influencing you. It’s changing your cells, your pulse, even your brain waves. Erevos called it Symbiosis.” Lena pressed a hand to her stomach. The faint glow flared beneath her fingers, warm and rhythmic — like a heartbeat answering her own. “I can feel it,” she whispered. “It’s… aware.” Adrian turned back to her, eyes dark. “Then we don’t have much time.” The weight of his words settled like smoke between them. For a long moment, silence filled the bunker. The only sounds were the whirring machines and Lena’s uneven breathing. Then she looked up at him — really looked — and saw the fear he was trying to hide. “You think I’m dangerous,” she said quietly. “I think they made you something they don’t understand.” Her throat ached. “And what about you? You don’t understand me either.” He hesitated. Then his voice softened, almost breaking. “I’m trying to.” She wanted to believe him. God, she did. But the past stood between them like glass — all the lies, the betrayals, the pain they’d never named. Her eyes blurred. “You still don’t forgive me, do you?” Adrian’s gaze fell. “I forgave you the day you left. I just never forgave myself for letting you.” Something cracked in her chest at that. Before she could speak, the lights flickered — once, twice. Adrian’s head snapped up. “Power surge.” Then came a sound — faint at first, then sharper — static bleeding through the comms. A distorted voice whispered through the speakers: > “You can’t hide her forever, Mr. Cole.” Adrian moved fast, slamming a switch that killed the line. “Damn it. They’ve found a signal.” “How?” Lena’s voice trembled. He was already moving, pulling open a weapons case, checking the safety on a handgun. “We have maybe ten minutes before they breach this place.” She stood, clutching the edge of the bed for balance. “Then we run.” He shook his head. “No. You’re not stable enough. The child—”
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MY EX IS PREGNANT FOR ME THE AWAKENING FIELDS
The world north of the Vault felt wrong—too still, too expectant. The sun hung low behind a screen of silver haze, and the wind carried the faint electric scent of something newly born. Adrian adjusted the strap on his pack and kept walking, boots sinking into soil that pulsed faintly with light.Lena followed, the child asleep against her shoulder. Each step triggered a shimmer in the tall grass, tiny motes rising like sparks before settling again.Kira paused beside a twisted signpost, squinting toward the horizon. “You seeing that?”Ahead stretched miles of rolling fields—yet the grass moved as though it breathed, every blade tilting in unison to some unheard rhythm. Beneath it, faint threads of bioluminescence wove through the earth like circuitry.Adrian crouched, touching the soil. Warm. Alive.“The planet’s rebooting,” he murmured. “The Vault’s energy bleed must’ve jump-started dormant code.”Lena frowned. “You’re saying the ground is… thinking?”“Not thinking,” he sai
MY EX IS PREGNANT FOR ME THE SKYLINE VAULT
The world grew colder as they traveled north.Each day the horizon seemed to withdraw, painted in hues of iron and ash. The air carried the metallic scent of storms that never quite broke, as if the sky itself was waiting for permission to fall.Adrian, Lena, Kira, and the child moved through the skeletal remains of the northern industrial zone—a labyrinth of rusted refineries and wind-torn towers that once harvested solar currents. Every echo here sounded mechanical. Every shadow looked alive.The coordinates Mira had etched into the boy’s pulse led them deeper into the wasteland. At night, the sky above shimmered faintly with auroras—electric curtains that whispered when the wind passed through them.“Radiation?” Kira asked one night, crouched beside the campfire.“Not exactly,” Adrian murmured. “It’s residual code. The Vault’s systems must still be active underground. They’re leaking signals into the ionosphere.”Lena drew the child closer. “It’s reacting to him,” she said quietly.
MY EX IS PREGNANT FOR ME MIRA'S SIGNAL
The morning rose pale and metallic, as if the sky itself had forgotten warmth. Dew shimmered on the weeds that carpeted the ruined highway. Adrian led the way north, boots crunching over glass that had once been windshields. Behind him, Kira scanned the horizon while Lena kept the child wrapped tight against her chest.They had traveled for hours when the first distortion rolled through the air—an invisible pulse that made their teeth ache. The birds in the distance went silent. Then came the smell of ozone and the faint crackle of static.Kira flinched. “That’s not weather.”Adrian checked the scanner strapped to his wrist. Its display rippled like water under pressure. “Signal wave—broadband, directional. Somebody’s broadcasting.”“From the coordinates?” Lena asked.He nodded. “Close. Maybe two klicks east.”They slipped through the skeleton of what had once been an industrial district: rusted cranes, storage tanks half-collapsed, concrete painted with ivy. Every surface
MY EX IS PREGNANT FOR ME THE VOICES IN THE DARK
The tunnels trembled long after the Archive went silent. Water dripped steadily from cracked concrete, each drop echoing like a metronome for the world’s end.Adrian wiped grime from his face and listened. No more humming servers, no more data-light. Just the pulse of the place and the soft, even breaths of the child asleep in Lena’s arms.Kira stood guard near the entrance, eyes scanning the dim corridor. “Whatever that awakening was, it reached far. Every band on my scanner just died.”“Or got replaced,” Adrian murmured. He knelt beside a half-functional console, coaxing a spark from its broken screen. Lines of code appeared—fragmented transmissions looping on repeat. we are awake / we are coming / we remember.Lena shivered. “They’re speaking.”“Not to us,” he said quietly. “To him.”The baby stirred, blue light flickering under his skin like lightning trapped beneath thin ice. Lena pressed him closer, whispering, “It’s okay, sweetheart, it’s okay.”Adrian’s jaw tightene
MY EX IS PREGNANT FOR ME THE ECHOES AWAKE
The forest thinned by dawn, giving way to the fractured bones of a city long devoured by vines. Concrete towers leaned against one another like the ribs of a giant carcass, their windows hollow, their spines cracked. Adrian led the way through the mist, his rifle slung across his back, every step sinking into moss and memory.They had left the dam behind—its flickering lights, its trembling walls, and the uneasy promises of the people within. Now there was only the soft hum of the child in Lena’s arms and the whisper of the wind moving through empty streets.“Archive’s beneath the old metro,” Kira said, her breath ghosting in the chill. “Last functional network node this side of the mountains.”Adrian scanned the horizon. “Then Roth will guard it.”“Or haunt it,” Kira muttered.Lena adjusted the blanket around her son. The faint blue glow under his skin had dimmed, but the air still seemed to vibrate whenever he stirred. “He hasn’t slept properly since the storm.”Adrian glance
MY EX IS PREGNANT FOR ME THE GATHERING STORM
The forest stretched for miles, a tangle of iron and roots reclaiming the bones of the old world. Rusted vehicles lay half-buried beneath moss, their windows shattered, vines curling through what had once been highways. The air carried the clean scent of rain mixed with metal and smoke.Adrian walked ahead, weapon drawn, eyes scanning every ridge. Kira followed, silent and precise, while Lena carried the sleeping child against her chest. His faint blue glow dimmed and brightened with each breath, casting ghost-light on her face.“Almost there,” Kira murmured. “The outpost is built into an old hydro station. You won’t see it until we’re on top of it.”Adrian’s instincts remained taut. “And they’ll let us in?”“If they don’t shoot first,” she said flatly.Lena managed a weak smile. “Comforting.”They moved through the trees until the forest gave way to a ravine. Far below, the remains of a dam cut across the water like a scar. The structure’s heart glowed faintly—a remnant of long-dead
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