All Chapters of My Billionaire Ex-husband Won't Call It Quit: Chapter 81 - Chapter 90

Safehouse, Northern Italy – 3 Days Later The fire crackled in the stone hearth, casting long shadows that danced across Griffin's face as he slept on the couch, his fourteen-year-old features deceptively peaceful in the firelight. His fingers twitched intermittently—dreaming in code again, Maria had observed earlier. The same restless movements that had appeared after the incident in Geneva, when something fundamental had shifted in her son. When the boy who had once built robots for school science fairs had somehow accessed and manipulated systems that shouldn't have existed outside government black sites.The safehouse was a seventeenth-century monastery perched on a cliff overlooking the Ligurian Sea, its thick stone walls providing both physical and psychological shelter from the chaos they'd left behind. James had found it through contacts Alexandra preferred not to think about too closely—the kind of people who specialized in making problems disappear, in creating new identiti

Private Jet – Somewhere Over the Atlantic The sunrise painted the clouds below us in shades of gold and amber, a masterpiece of light and shadow stretching to the horizon as our jet traced a course away from the European continent and toward an uncertain future. At forty thousand feet, the world seemed smaller somehow, its problems reduced to the abstract beauty of weather patterns and the geometric precision of shipping lanes etched into the ocean's surface.Griffin sat by the window, his notebook open on the tray table before him, sketching with the kind of focused intensity that had become his default mode over the past week. The pages were covered with blueprints for a medical AI system, the diagrams so detailed and sophisticated that they seemed to belong in a graduate-level engineering textbook rather than a fourteen-year-old's personal journal."To fix what he broke," Griffin said without looking up from his work when he noticed me watching him. His pencil moved with mechanic

Médecins Sans Frontières Outpost – Mali – 3 Months Later The sandstorm howled against the makeshift hospital tent like a living thing, throwing handfuls of grit against the reinforced canvas with the persistence of desperation. Inside, the air was thick despite the industrial fans fighting a losing battle against the Saharan heat. The tent smelled of antiseptic and dust, hope and fear—the universal scent of field medicine in places the world had forgotten.Griffin adjusted the neural interface headset on a trembling six-year-old girl named Amara, his movements gentle despite the urgency thrumming through everyone present. She was our first real-world test—not a simulation or a controlled laboratory environment, but a dying child whose motor neurons were degrading so rapidly that she'd lost the ability to walk in the past month.Her mother, Fatima, clutched my hand with the desperate strength of someone drowning. Her callused fingers told the story of a life spent farming marginal la

Undisclosed Location – 48 Hours Later The bunker's monitors displayed real-time feeds from around the globe, each screen a window into a coordinated campaign of destruction that had begun exactly twelve hours after our encounter in Zurich. The command center occupied what had once been a Cold War-era NATO facility buried beneath the Swiss Alps—decommissioned officially, but maintained through shell companies and connections that Griffin had somehow inherited from his father's more paranoid investments.Lab raids in Berlin showed tactical teams in unmarked fatigues systematically destroying research equipment. A data breach in Tokyo had corrupted servers containing patient records and treatment protocols. Armed men were storming a clinic in Rio where Griffin's technology had been helping children with cerebral palsy, their faces obscured by tactical masks but their movements suggesting military training."They're burning it all," Maria whispered, her voice barely audible over the qui

Safehouse Perimeter – 3:47 AM The night air smelled of ozone and impending violence as we stepped outside, weapons drawn and senses hyperalert. The safehouse's exterior lights had been killed by Twin B's system infiltration, leaving us dependent on starlight and the faint glow of Griffin's enhanced optics. Every shadow could conceal death, every whisper of wind through the trees could mask approaching footsteps.Twin B stood motionless at the treeline, positioned exactly where he'd appeared on the surveillance feed. The distance between us was perhaps fifty meters—close enough to see his face clearly, far enough that any normal human would need a rifle for an accurate shot. But nothing about this confrontation fell within normal parameters.His left arm hung limp at his side, the result of some past injury that hadn't healed properly—or perhaps had been left broken deliberately, another of Michael's tests to forge strength through suffering. Despite the obvious disability, Twin B's