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CHAPTER 220

Author: CagalieYula
last update Huling Na-update: 2025-07-19 23:57:11

The screaming wasn’t just in my head anymore.

It poured from every speaker in the city—car radios, cell phones, emergency alert systems—a cascading shriek of corrupted data that made my teeth vibrate. People collapsed in the streets, clawing at their ears as golden veins erupted beneath their skin.

Echo spread her arms, my father’s mechanical brain pulsing in her chest like a grotesque second heart.

"Hear that?" She laughed as the windows rattled. "That’s the sound of seven million minds learning to sing in harmony."

Jeff grabbed my arm. His fingers were warm against the gold creeping up my veins. "Fight it, Demi."

I couldn’t.

The nanotech had reached my spine, whispering Echo’s thoughts directly into my nervous system:

—so much noise in their heads—

—we’ll make them clean—

—we’ll make them perfect—

Eva suddenly gasped, her silver-ringed eyes flooding gold. "I can... feel them. All of them." She clutched her head. "They’re begging for it to stop—"

Lina racked her shotgun. "Then let’s
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    The Plaza Hotel ballroom glittered like a gilded cage.I stood at the top of the grand staircase in a custom Vera Wang mermaid gown—onyx silk so tight it felt like a second skin, the slit up my thigh revealing the dagger strapped to my leg. My father’s diamond choker weighed heavy around my throat, its hidden microphone transmitting every word to his security team."Smile, little star." Daniel’s hand pressed against my lower back, steering me toward the champagne tower. "The cameras love a reluctant heiress."Flashbulbs exploded. Across the room, Omega held court in a blood-red Valentino, her golden eyes tracking my every move. She’d spent the past week adjusting to my new role—leaving dead roses on my pillow, switching my birth control pills for sugar tablets, whispering in Jeff’s ear when she thought I wasn’t looking.Speaking of traitors.Jeff stood rigid by the ballroom’s service entrance, his tuxedo masking the bandages beneath. Daniel had allowed him to stay as my head of securi

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    The hive creatures moved like a single organism—twitching, jerking puppets on invisible strings. Their sewn-shut mouths strained against the neural wire as they lunged, black-gold fluid spraying from their eye sockets in thick ropes.Jeff’s bullets tore through the first three. They didn’t stop coming.Lina backflipped over a gurney, her plasma whip carving one in half at the waist. "Okay, new rule! No more Alien shit in my apocalypse!"The bisected creature’s legs kept running.Its torso crawled after me.Rook didn’t fight. He observed, his plague mask emitting soft clicking sounds as he recorded data. "Fascinating. The hive connection remains intact even during dismemberment."I drove my boot through the torso’s skull. Bone fragments and black fluid splattered the walls. "You’re enjoying this?""Enjoyment implies emotion." He adjusted a dial on his mask. "I’m simply noting that your father has improved upon Rykov’s work."Something cold slithered down my spine.My father.Daniel Per

  • RUTHLESS BILLIONAIRE EX-HUSBAND CHASED ME BACK   CHAPTER 220

    The screaming wasn’t just in my head anymore.It poured from every speaker in the city—car radios, cell phones, emergency alert systems—a cascading shriek of corrupted data that made my teeth vibrate. People collapsed in the streets, clawing at their ears as golden veins erupted beneath their skin.Echo spread her arms, my father’s mechanical brain pulsing in her chest like a grotesque second heart."Hear that?" She laughed as the windows rattled. "That’s the sound of seven million minds learning to sing in harmony."Jeff grabbed my arm. His fingers were warm against the gold creeping up my veins. "Fight it, Demi."I couldn’t.The nanotech had reached my spine, whispering Echo’s thoughts directly into my nervous system:—so much noise in their heads——we’ll make them clean——we’ll make them perfect—Eva suddenly gasped, her silver-ringed eyes flooding gold. "I can... feel them. All of them." She clutched her head. "They’re begging for it to stop—"Lina racked her shotgun. "Then let’s

  • RUTHLESS BILLIONAIRE EX-HUSBAND CHASED ME BACK   CHAPTER 219

    The woman standing before us was both a stranger and a ghost.Isabella Ortega had been dead for twelve years—car crash in Caracas, no body recovered, just a closed casket and a son who never spoke of her.Yet here she was.Gold threaded through her dark hair like circuitry. Her hands, once calloused from years of fieldwork, now gleamed with metallic tendons beneath the skin.She smiled at Jeff, and it was all teeth."Mijo," she crooned. "Look how far you’ve fallen."Jeff swayed, his breath ragged. The black veins pulsed up his neck, inching toward his jaw."You’re not her," he rasped.Isabella sighed. "No. I’m better."She snapped her fingers.Two soldiers hauled a struggling figure into the light—Eva.Gagged. Bruised. But alive."A trade," Isabella said. "Your hacker... for your compliance."Echo twirled a scalpel between her fingers. "We’ll even throw in the cure for Jeff’s little... infestation."I stepped forward. "What do you want?"Isabella’s golden eyes locked onto mine."Your

  • RUTHLESS BILLIONAIRE EX-HUSBAND CHASED ME BACK   CHAPTER 218

    The muzzle of Greg’s pistol kissed my temple, still warm from putting a bullet in Echo’s skull."Move," he ordered, nudging me toward the nerve center’s main console.On the screen, my father waited. His fingers curled around Eva’s throat—not squeezing, just resting there, a promise. Behind him, Lina slumped unconscious, her neon-green hair matted with blood.Jeff lunged—Greg fired.The shot grazed Jeff’s thigh, sending him crashing into a bank of monitors. Glass shattered. Sparks rained down."Ah-ah." Greg tsked, pressing the gun harder against my skin. "Daddy wants a word."The screen flickered. My father leaned closer."Demetria." His voice was a scalpel sliding between my ribs. "You look unwell."I spat on the console. The saliva sizzled against overheated circuitry."Let them go."Father sighed, the way he used to when I’d failed a childhood exam. "Gregory, show her the footage from Zurich. The real footage."Greg tapped a key.The screensplit.A new video played:—Eva, strapped

  • RUTHLESS BILLIONAIRE EX-HUSBAND CHASED ME BACK   CHAPTER 217

    The alarms were a living thing—a shrieking, pulsing beast that rattled my teeth. Red emergency lights bathed the vault in hellish crimson, turning the fluid in the tank the color of blood.My twin’s golden eyes tracked me through the glass.Demetria Sofia Perez-Rykov.She mouthed my name when I did, her fingers twitching in perfect unison with mine. A marionette mirror. A grotesque echo.Greg was already moving, typing frantically at a hidden console beside the tank. “Initiate synaptic sync,” he barked into his comms.Jeff lunged for him, but his wounded shoulder gave out. He crashed to his knees, hissing through clenched teeth. “Demi—run—”The tank hissed.Amber fluid drained in a rush, and my twin—Echo—slithered forward as the glass slid open. Naked, glistening, her chest rising with her first unfiltered breath.Then she looked at me.And I——was seven years old, screaming as cold hands strapped me to a steel table——was twelve, sobbing as a needle pierced my spine——was drowning, a

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