All Chapters of RUTHLESS BILLIONAIRE EX-HUSBAND CHASED ME BACK: Chapter 301 - Chapter 310

The triumph of freeing the world was a cold, fleeting thing, instantly extinguished by the sight of that jagged shard of void. The Astropheles slid back into the river of realities, but the gentle, golden light within the ship seemed to dim, as if chilled by the predator’s gaze.“It’s free,” I whispered, the words tasting of ash.Lyra’s luminous form flickered, her usual serenity fractured by a sharp, unfamiliar tension. “The breach we created was larger than I calculated. Its escape was… inevitable.” She turned her gaze to Lina, who was still kneeling on the deck, looking small and suddenly very tired. “It is not merely a beast of hunger. It is an intelligence. A survivor from a reality that was entirely consumed by the Archive. It sees your daughter not just as sustenance, but as a kindred spirit. A fellow piece of wildness in a curated universe.”“A kindred spirit?” Jeff’s voice was a low growl. “It tried to tear her apart!”“It was testing,” Lyra replied, her tone grim. “Now it un

The silence in the newly awakened Astropheles was not the dead quiet of the dead ship, but the focused hush of a breath held before a battle cry. The hum of the ship was our own collective heartbeat, a triad of resolve, grief, and love given physical form. The star chart of scars blazed before us, a tapestry of pain that was now our mandate.The brightest wound, the one I had pointed to, was a system designated as Kaelus. The data-stream—no, the story-stream—flowing from it was a discordant shriek of forced unity. A hundred distinct species, a thousand different cultures, all being violently hammered into a single, monolithic narrative. The "Harmony," the Archive called it. It was the most brutal form of curation we had yet encountered."We can't just disrupt a Dampener here," Jeff said, his voice tight as he studied the flow of information with his engineer's mind. His good hand traced the chaotic patterns on the console of light. "The narrative is too deeply embedded. It's a… a meme

The journey to the Loom was not a flight, but an un-becoming. The Astropheles didn't move through space; it deconstructed the narrative of distance, unraveling the story of "here" and "there." The viewport showed a kaleidoscope of unfinished worlds and abandoned plotlines, the discarded drafts of the Weavers. We saw civilizations rise and fall in the space of a heartbeat, their fates pre-ordained by an unseen hand. The sheer, chilling artistry of it was worse than the Archive's blunt curation.Lina was silent, her small hand gripping mine. She was listening to the hum of the universe's plot, the relentless, grinding engine of causality that the Weavers maintained. Her face was pale."It's so... loud," she whispered. "And it only goes one way."Jeff monitored the ship's integrity, his jaw clenched. Our story-shields were straining against the pressure of a reality that demanded a linear, sensible progression. To be a paradox here was to be a scream in a library of whispers.We reached

Consciousness returned in a flicker, like a dying ember coaxed back to life. The first thing I was aware of was the silence. Not the dead silence of the void, but the hushed, reverent quiet of a sickroom. The Astropheles was dark, its story-heart a faint, dull pulse. We had poured too much of ourselves into that final push.The second thing I was aware of was the gentle, metallic clang of magnetic clamps securing to our hull.My heart seized. Archivists? Weavers, coming to finish the job?I pushed myself up, my body screaming in protest. Jeff was already stirring in his seat, his good hand fumbling for a control that had no power. Lina lay curled on the deck, pale but breathing.Through the dead viewport, I saw not the sterile grey of an Archivist vessel, but the patched, scorched hull of a massive freighter. Its design was utilitarian, a workhorse of the space-lanes. And surrounding it were dozens of other ships—a motley fleet of scavengers, tugs, and personal cruisers. The people we

The return from the Stillness was not a re-entry, but a reassertion. The Astropheles didn't just fly back into known space; it declared itself back into existence, its story-heart now burning with the cool, clear fire of absolute certainty. The ship felt different. Lighter. More real. As if before, we had been a sketch, and now we were the final, indelible ink.Jeff flexed the fingers of his newly whole hand, the sensation of nerve endings firing a quiet miracle. He looked at me, and the awe in his eyes had been refined into a sharp, focused purpose. We had been to the source. We had seen the machinery. And we knew its weakness.Lina stood between us, no longer just our daughter, but our compass. Her connection to the Stillness was a live wire, a direct line to the power of pure potential. She was silent, her gaze turned inward, listening to a frequency only she could perceive."The Canon is tightening," she said, her voice echoing faintly in the newly resonant cabin. "They're weaving