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Chapter 109: The Boy Chooses
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2026-03-05 13:01:57
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Replaced by His First Love Chapter 375 Battery K-01
Kael Blackwood woke on the floor with Serena's voice in his mouth.For one sick second, he thought he had answered her.His body lurched before his mind caught up. One hand slammed against the marble, slipping in blood and broken glass. His lungs dragged in air that tasted of smoke, old whiskey, and the bitter metal of a bond that had been cut so many times it should have stopped hurting.It had not.Serena's broadcast glowed on every wall screen in the master suite."All children marked by gold are ordered to report for sanctuary processing."Her face filled the room.Soft eyes. Torn silver silk. A hand pressed to her chest like she was keeping her heart from breaking.Kael knew that face.He had loved that face.No.Worse.He had chosen it.The thought made his stomach twist. He turned his head and vomited onto the marble beside the bed.The motion sent pain through his ribs so sharp his vision went white.K-01 CAPACITY: 0.6%.The text flickered over the screen for less than a secon
Replaced by His First Love Chapter 374 The Doors That Opened
Across the city, nursery doors began to unlock.The sound reached me through the extraction beam.Not as one sound. As hundreds.A soft click in a tower apartment where a mother had dragged a dresser in front of the door. A heavier bolt sliding back in the Citadel's lower childcare wing. The thin magnetic snap of basement dormitories where gold-marked children slept two to a cot, their wrists tucked under threadbare blankets.Click.Click.Click.Each one landed under my ribs.Some doors did not open all the way.A mother in the west district threw her whole body against a nursery door and held it shut with one bare shoulder while her little girl cried on the other side, not because she wanted to leave, but because Serena's voice had made leaving sound like being loved.In the servant dormitories, a boy tried to crawl under a cot. His older sister caught his ankle and whispered his name into his hair until he stopped reaching for the screen.The city was not obeying as cleanly as Sere
Replaced by His First Love Chapter 373 The Wrong Leo
Serena spoke with my son's voice.For one second, the extraction chamber disappeared.There was no cannon light. No black geometry beyond the torn sky. No High Elder Valerius watching me as if I were a specimen he had finally managed to pin through the heart.There was only that voice."Pack your bags, Mommy."Soft. Bright. Wicked in the way Leo had been wicked when he was five, when he had stolen strawberries from a bowl and thought flour on his nose made him invisible.My body reached before my mind could stop it.Both hands strained toward Serena's projection, toward the hollow chest where my son's stolen phrase had landed. The beam punished the movement at once. White light tightened around my wrists. The Mercury Lines under my skin went from burning to freezing, and pain shot up my arms so sharply my fingers curled.I did not care."Give it back."Serena's projection floated inside the left side of the beam.
Replaced by His First Love Chapter 372 The Light That Had Teeth
The cannon light did not burn.That was the first wrong thing.Fire would have been honest. Heat, smoke, skin blistering off bone; those were things a body could understand. The Null-Canon gave me none of that. It took the air out of my lungs, the weight out of my blood, and the direction out of the world, then pulled me upward through the place where the basement ceiling used to be.My fingers clawed at nothing.For one stupid, human second, I tried to grab the terminal.Not the Root. Not the Mercury Lines. Not the hidden architecture of Rebirth City.The terminal.The old mechanical keys with blood drying in the cracks. The cracked glass corner where Silas had once slammed his fist and sworn it could survive a direct overload. The ugly little machine that smelled like hot plastic, old dust, and the cheap soap the basement girls used when there was enough water pressure to pretend they were still people.My nails scraped throu
Replaced by His First Love Chapter 372 The Light That Had Teeth
The cannon light did not burn.That was the first wrong thing.Fire would have been honest. Heat, smoke, skin blistering off bone; those were things a body could understand. The Null-Canon gave me none of that. It took the air out of my lungs, the weight out of my blood, and the direction out of the world, then pulled me upward through the place where the basement ceiling used to be.My fingers clawed at nothing.For one stupid, human second, I tried to grab the terminal.Not the Root. Not the Mercury Lines. Not the hidden architecture of Rebirth City.The terminal.The old mechanical keys with blood drying in the cracks. The cracked glass corner where Silas had once slammed his fist and sworn it could survive a direct overload. The ugly little machine that smelled like hot plastic, old dust, and the cheap soap the basement girls used when there was enough water pressure to pretend they were still people.My nails scraped throu
Replaced by His First Love Chapter 371 The Prisoner of Protocol
FIFTY-EIGHT SECONDS.The basement floor didn't just vibrate; it shrieked. A high-frequency howl tore through the limestone, rattling my molars and making the glass of the monitor screens ripple like water. I lunged for the terminal, my boots skidding on a layer of frost that shouldn't have been there. In the gaps of the foundation above, the sky of Rebirth City had finished its rot, turning from a synthetic blue to a flat, light-eating black."Silas, get up!"He didn't move. He was a heap of iron and scarred muscle on the floor, his fingers digging into his scalp so hard his knuckles had turned white. His cybernetic eye whirred—a frantic, mechanical clicking—but the iris was gone, replaced by a flickering grey 'loading' icon. The system was formatting him in real-time, scrubbing the Guardian clean of the woman he’d spent months protecting."Who..." He coughed, and the sound was wet, like gravel in a blender. "Target... target identified.
Replaced by His First Love Chapter 14: The Phantom Hacker
The clock ticked toward 2:00 AM in the Alpha’s office. Kael sat hunched over three monitors, the cold blue light painting his sharp features with the pallor of obsession. His tie hung loose, sleeves rolled up; he looked less like a king and more like a man haunted by ghosts.He clicked through the
Last Updated : 2026-03-18Replaced by His First Love Chapter 29: Blood for Blood
The medical wing of the Moon Pack estate was not designed for comfort.It was designed for survival.White walls. Steel floors. The sharp bite of ozone and antiseptic in the air.Phoenix stood against the far wall, arms crossed, her silk blouse stiff with dried blood. She didn’t look at the doctors
Last Updated : 2026-03-20Replaced by His First Love Chapter 32: The Prisoner of Protocol
The East Wing of the Moon Pack estate was a fortress within a fortress.Thick stone walls. Bulletproof glass. A separate ventilation system that Kael had personally engaged to filter out any airborne toxins.It was the most secure location in the North.And tonight, it was a prison cell.Phoenix st
Last Updated : 2026-03-20Replaced by His First Love Chapter 21: The Fashion Show Disaster
The air in Moon Pack Square crackled with the ozone of high-intensity stage lights and the restless buzz of the elite.Serena stood behind the velvet curtains, fingers clenched in the shimmering silver fabric of the Eternal Luna gown. Tonight was supposed to be her resurrection. Every spotlight pro
Last Updated : 2026-03-19
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