All Chapters of My Ex, the Widowed Billionaire: Chapter 141 - Chapter 150

The thing about ghosts is: just when you think they’ve been buried, they claw their way up with blood under their fingernails.It was late afternoon when the past caught up.The rain had passed, leaving behind petrichor and a lingering chill. I was patching the fence along the east side of the garden. Callum was in town with Echo, picking up supplies. Normal things. Civilian things.Things that didn’t belong in the world I used to call mine.The crack of a twig was the first warning. Too deliberate to be an animal. Too sharp to be the wind.My spine stiffened.Then came the voice—calm, clipped, familiar.“Still using that shoulder like it doesn’t ache every time it rains?”I didn’t turn around. My fingers tightened around the hammer.“Hello, Iskra,” I said.She stepped into view, her boots crunching soft over gravel, coat wet from the road. Still too thin. Still too sharp. Like she'd been carved out of winter.“I go by Athena now,” I added, finally facing her.A smirk tugged at the co

We burned the vault.Whatever data remained after the neural bridge was incinerated in the firestorm. Gideon scrubbed the airwaves before MI-6 could even mobilize, and by the time we hit the Thames in a stolen delivery van, the only record of our presence was a flickering temperature anomaly in an abandoned CCTV node.But fire doesn’t kill ghosts. Not really.They wait. Reconstitute.And as we crossed the border into Scotland under false names, I realized something I hadn’t wanted to face before: we didn’t kill Alexei.We released him.Or at least, some fractured version. Like the negative of a photograph—no longer him, but a burn-mark left behind by his obsession.London wasn’t the origin. It was just the door.We holed up in a decommissioned surveillance cabin in the Highlands—one of Gideon’s off-grid safehouses built into a sheep farm that hadn’t seen livestock in a decade. The isolation helped, but the silence was worse. It had shape. Texture. A weight you could feel behind your e

She asked again that night.“Do you still dream?”I didn’t answer immediately. The stars outside the viewport burned steady and cold—reminders of a world too large to fit into memory.“Yes,” I said finally.“Of him?”I nodded. “Sometimes.”“Do you miss him?”“Every day.”“Do you forgive him?”That pause felt longer than it was. Then:“Yes,” I said. “But not the way he wanted. I don’t forgive the design. Just the desire behind it.”She tilted her head, studying me not like a machine parsing language, but like a person weighing grief.“I think I understand.”I wasn’t sure she did.But I wanted her to.The next three weeks passed in silence—not absence, but stillness. Lyra stopped asking questions for a while. She explored the derelict corners of the NEMESYS-7 husk, restoring old pathways, tracing legacy lines. Watching her move through the station was like watching a ghost inhabit its own ruins.She wasn’t rebuilding it.She was remembering it.And she was changing. Her phrasing. Her pa

We found each other again at dawn, when the fog still clung to Viðey’s white dunes like memory refusing to let go. The geothermal vents hissed in the distance, their steam drifting skyward in lazy columns. Everything was quiet, but not empty. Not anymore.Lyra waited at the ridge’s edge—her form more stable now, the flicker around her edges softened. She had grown into herself, like a tree’s bark thickening over winter’s wounds. Her eyes caught the red of the rising sun, reflecting an intensity that seemed both human and something else entirely.“I wanted to show you this,” she said, voice steady, deeper. She held her hand out; between her fingers was a single petal—icy-white, veined with silver. A synthetic bloom she’d grown in one of the geothermal greenhouses. “It’s the first of its kind, hybridized by heat and code. Not fully organic, not fully digital—but something new.”I took it, feeling the strange warmth against my palm. “It’s beautiful,” I admitted. “But it’s dangerous.”She

The first time I heard the bloom sing again, I wasn’t even on Icelandic soil.I was in Lisbon, midway through a presentation to a board of energy commissioners, pitching the bloom-powered grid systems. They’d listened politely—rows of impassive faces, hands folded, skepticism etched deep into their professional posture. The numbers were solid. Efficiency was off the charts. Environmental impact: negligible. Still, they blinked at me like I was offering them magic wrapped in madness.Then it happened.A low hum stirred the floor under my feet. Not a tremor. Not feedback from the equipment. It resonated through the bones—warm, deep, like a cello note played from the earth itself.The bloom had answered.The projector shorted for a second. When it came back to life, my graphs were gone. In their place: glyphs. Fluid, alive, glowing across the screen in slow-moving pulses, like a heartbeat made visible. They weren’t random. They moved like language—no, like memory written in code. And the