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Chapter Forty-Five – Into the Core
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Surrogate for My Cold-Hearted Ex Chapter Forty-Five – Into the Core
The silence after her voice faded was unbearable.Adrian stayed on his knees for what felt like forever, staring at the space where Maya had stood just moments ago. The air still shimmered faintly, ripples of gold and blue light hanging in the air like aftershocks. The Core’s glow had dimmed to a dull pulse, quiet… almost sleeping.His mind screamed move, but his body refused. It was as if every ounce of energy had been drained with her.Then her voice echoed again.“Adrian… can you hear me?”He jerked upright, spinning around. “Maya?!”The voice came from everywhere at once — soft, trembling, real.“I don’t know where I am. It’s dark. But… it feels familiar.”Adrian’s breath came fast. “Hold on. I’m coming for you.”He scanned the chamber for an access point — anything that could pull him into the system. The Core wasn’t reacting, but he could feel the static in the air, like the hum of a sleeping giant.“Come on, come on…” He rushed to the console at the base of the sphere. The glas
Surrogate for My Cold-Hearted Ex Chapter Forty-Four – The Merge Begins
Light swallowed everything.Not the harsh white kind that burns your eyes, but a deep, golden flood that seemed to pour straight into their bones. The Core pulsed around them like a heartbeat — steady, alive, ancient. Maya’s fingers dug into Adrian’s arm as she blinked through the glare.“Adrian—”“I’ve got you,” he said hoarsely, though his own knees were shaking. “Don’t let go.”The sound of machinery twisted into something almost… human. The hum turned into whispers, thousands of voices speaking at once — fragments of thoughts, emotions, pieces of people. It was like standing in the middle of a storm made of memories.Then the voice of the Core cut through it all. Calm. Certain.“All versions must return to source.”“No!” Maya shouted. “You can’t just erase us!”“Not erase,” said the Core. “Complete.”A surge of energy rippled through the air, lifting her hair and clothes as though she stood in the center of a hurricane. The figure inside the Core — the other Maya — opened her eyes
Surrogate for My Cold-Hearted Ex Chapter Forty-Three – The Descent
The ground split open like the world itself was exhaling.A spiral staircase of light spiraled downward, glowing through the darkness below the lab.Adrian stood frozen at the edge, the hum of machinery vibrating through the soles of his boots.Maya stared down into the abyss, heart pounding so hard it almost drowned out the sound. “You’ve got to be kidding me,” she muttered. “A hidden staircase under the lab? That’s straight out of a sci-fi horror movie.”Adrian almost smiled—almost. “Let’s hope it’s not that kind of ending.”Above them, Eleanor—or whatever was left of her—was slumped against the wall, breathing shallowly. The light around her flickered, like two forces were still fighting for control inside her body. Every few seconds, her eyes flashed amber, then silver, then back again.Maya hesitated. “She’s still… alive.”Adrian’s gaze hardened. “For now.”“She helped us, Adrian. Elias did. You saw that.”He clenched his jaw. “And you saw what she’s capable of.”Maya sighed. “Ye
Surrogate for My Cold-Hearted Ex Chapter Forty-Two – The Ghost in Her Eyes
For several seconds, Adrian couldn’t move.He just stared at her—at Eleanor—his breath stuck somewhere between disbelief and rage.Maya was the first to whisper, her voice trembling.“Inside you… what does that even mean?”Eleanor’s gaze lingered on the pod beside her. The glass was still glowing faintly, a dim, pulsing light like a heartbeat.“It means,” she said softly, “Elias is still here. His consciousness, his data, his logic—merged. I saved what mattered.”“Saved?” Adrian’s voice cracked into a sharp laugh. “You stole him.”Eleanor tilted her head. “Such dramatic words. You act as if he were human.”“He was,” Adrian snapped. “More human than you’ll ever be.”For a flicker of a moment, her eyes softened, almost mournful. Then she stepped closer, her heels clicking sharply on the metal floor.“Do you really believe that?” she asked quietly. “That your brother’s heart wasn’t just a collection of code lines I wrote myself?”Maya moved protectively closer to Adrian. “If he was just
Surrogate for My Cold-Hearted Ex Chapter Forty-One – The Mind Must Fall
For a few seconds, no one moved.The words on the flickering screen seemed to hang in the air like smoke:“NEW TARGET: ELIAS.”Adrian froze, his pulse hammering in his throat. Maya’s hand was already on his arm.“What does that mean?” she whispered, though the answer was already clawing at her chest.Elias turned to them, pale under the dim lights. “It means the system’s going to erase me.”He tried to say it lightly, as if he were talking about a software patch, not his own existence. But the slight tremor in his voice betrayed him.Adrian stepped forward, fury cutting through the panic.“Then we stop it. Whatever it takes.”Elias gave a hollow laugh. “You don’t even know how. That thing is reading my neural frequency—it’s literally rewriting me right now.”Maya’s heart twisted. “There has to be something we can do.”Elias didn’t look at her. His eyes were fixed on the pulsing core in the center of the room—the machine that looked almost alive.“The only way to stop the sequence,” he
Surrogate for My Cold-Hearted Ex Chapter Forty – The Countdown
For a heartbeat, no one spoke. The silence in the lab was suffocating — the kind of silence that came after an explosion, when the dust hadn’t even settled yet.Adrian’s chest still burned from where Version One had slammed him into the floor. He could feel his pulse in his throat, a mix of fear and fury.Elias stood across from him, calm — too calm.“Only one of us was meant to survive,” he’d said.Maya looked between them, disbelief written all over her face. “Elias, what are you even talking about?”Elias turned slowly, his eyes unreadable. “You heard her. We were designed to be… balanced. But balance can’t exist if there are too many variables. She’s going to force an end.”Adrian took a step forward. “You think that means we have to kill each other?”“I think it means she’s already made sure we will,” Elias replied.Maya shook her head. “No. No, I’m not listening to this genetic horror movie logic. We’re not her puppets.”“Maybe not you,” Elias said quietly, “but we are.”He reac
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