Se connecterChapter 30One year later, the sprawling Holloway-Jones estate overlooking the ocean glowed with warm lights and children’s laughter. The triplets—now six and full of boundless energy—chased each other across the manicured lawn, their dark curls bouncing as they played with toy motorcycles and dolls. Lucas led the charge, Ethan right behind, while Ava Rose twirled in her favorite princess dress, her laughter ringing like bells.Ava stood on the wide veranda, one hand resting on her hip, the other cradling the tiny bundle in her arms. Little Sophia cooed softly against her chest, her twin brother, Alexander, sleeping peacefully in the bassinet beside her. The twins had arrived healthy and strong six months ago, their births a celebration unmarred by glowing markers or ancient curses. The mother code had settled into quiet dormancy, a faded echo of the nightmare that once defined their lives.Jeffrey stepped up behind her, wrapping his arms around her waist and pressing a kiss to her te
Chapter 29The final confrontation unfolded at the edge of a storm-lashed cliff overlooking the raging sea, the same isolated cove where the Jones legacy had first ensnared Ava years ago. Wind whipped her hair as she stood between Jeffrey and Samuel, the mother code surging through her veins like liquid fire. The triplets and her growing belly with the twins were secured back at the compound under ironclad guard, but the echo of their innocent voices haunted every heartbeat.Madam Jones stood at the precipice, a glowing replication chamber humming beside her—the last viable sample of the hybrid marker pulsing inside. “You’ve come full circle, Ava. Transfer the mother code to me, or I release it into the sea and let the world burn with uncontrolled manifestations. Your choice ends the blood war.”Jeffrey stepped forward, blood still seeping from his bunker wounds, his obsessive gaze locked on Ava with fierce devotion. “Take me instead. My life for theirs. I’ve paid for my sins—let me e
Chapter 28The mountain safehouse felt smaller with every passing hour, walls closing in as Ava paced the reinforced nursery. The triplets slept fitfully in their shared bed, exhausted from the chaos, their small hands clutching each other even in dreams. Ava’s palm rested on her rounding belly, feeling the twins shift restlessly—the mother code humming like a live wire beneath her skin. Samuel stood by the window, monitoring perimeter feeds, his presence both comfort and reminder of everything lost and gained.“Jeffrey’s message was a trap,” Samuel said quietly, not turning around. “Madam Jones has him, or he’s playing both sides again. The kill gene purge was incomplete. If you go alone, you’re walking into her hands.”Ava stopped pacing, eyes burning. “And if I don’t, the twins manifest and I lose them. He’s their father, Samuel. The man who fought through hell for us on the island. I saw the change in him.”Samuel turned, pain etched deep in his features. “The obsession you call l
Chapter 27The abandoned research facility loomed like a concrete mausoleum under the gray morning sky, its broken windows staring like empty eyes. Ava clutched Jeffrey’s hand as they stepped through the rusted gates, her other hand pressed to her abdomen where the twins kicked with unnatural urgency. The mother code burned hotter in her veins, a living fire that made every step a battle. Samuel’s encrypted message replayed in her mind: I’m not dead… Run, sister.Jeffrey’s grip was iron, his jaw set in that obsessive, protective line she had come to crave. “Stay behind me. Whatever Madam Jones wants, she doesn’t get you or our babies.”Madam Jones waited in the central atrium, elegant even in defeat, flanked by a handful of remaining loyalists and glowing medical pods. The two hybrid clones floated in their artificial wombs, pulsing faintly. “Ava, darling. You brought the wrong man.”Before Ava could respond, shadows moved. Samuel emerged from a side corridor, alive, bandaged, eyes ha
Chapter 26The secure compound nestled in the mountains felt like a fragile sanctuary as Ava stood on the balcony overlooking the mist-shrouded peaks. Dawn painted the sky in soft pinks and golds, but her hand rested protectively over her still-flat stomach where two new lives grew—Jeffrey’s twins. The confirmation from the doctors yesterday had brought tears of joy mixed with bone-deep exhaustion. Samuel’s sacrifice, the island’s destruction, Cassandra’s death… it should have been the end. Yet Madam Jones’s escape and the ominous text about the mother code hung over them like a guillotine.Jeffrey’s arms wrapped around her from behind, his chin resting on her shoulder. His touch was warm, possessive, the obsessive fire that had once terrified her now a source of strength. “Morning, future Mrs. Jones again,” he murmured, lips brushing her neck. “The triplets are asking for pancakes with ‘hero Daddy.’ Let me spoil you all today.”Ava leaned back into him, allowing herself this moment.
Chapter 25The speedboats cut through the choppy midnight waves like knives, salt spray stinging Ava’s face as the Jones family island estate loomed ahead—a fortress of jagged cliffs and shadowed spires rising from the sea. The triplets huddled against her in the reinforced cabin, their small bodies warm but tense, the faint hybrid glow pulsing softly beneath their skin once more. Jeffrey sat to her left, his arm a steel band around her shoulders, gun resting on his thigh. Samuel occupied the right, pale from blood loss but eyes sharp, monitoring a tactical tablet.“No one touches the children,” Jeffrey growled, his voice low and obsessive. “I’ll handle Cassandra. You get them out, Ava. This ends with me proving I’m the father they deserve.”Samuel didn’t look up. “The estate’s vault requires all three paternal markers—yours, mine, and the maternal override. One sacrifice to balance the replication. Cassandra’s clone won’t stop until the blood debt is paid.”Ava’s heart twisted as Ava
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ISLAI felt a pang of disappointment and hurt when Lucian pushed me away after accepting our wolf bond. But as I saw Elias and Jace approaching, I realized why he did that. Maybe he didn't want anyone to know that I was his mate now.Fear still gripped me as I saw Elias's face, his intense gaze and







