All Chapters of After Divorce, I became the CEO of my Ex-Husband's Company : Chapter 231 - Chapter 240

Sophia’s POVFor a moment, I couldn’t breathe.Lina stood before me—blood smeared across her cheek, tears streaking lines through the grime, her chest rising and falling in panicked bursts.But behind her, smoke still hung heavy, curling like fingers from the ruined stasis chamber.The other Lina was gone.No body. No trace. Only an empty harness, wires sparking against cold metal.“I said it’s me,” Lina whispered again.Her voice cracked, raw and desperate.Alex’s rifle stayed trained on her.“I need more than words right now,” he said, steady but sharp. “Prove it.”She flinched. “How?”I stepped closer. My heart wanted to believe. My instincts screamed not to trust what my eyes saw.“You said Nyx needed you alive,” I said quietly. “Why?”Her lips trembled. “Because I’m the original.”“That’s not proof.”Lina’s gaze darted between us, frantic. “You want proof? Fine.”She pressed her hand to her side, wincing, and pulled something free from beneath her ruined jacket.A small, worn cha

Sophia’s POVI didn’t blink.I couldn’t.Because behind that vault door, I heard it.Not the hum of machines or the hiss of hydraulics. Not the screech of metal grinding loose.No.Breathing.Slow. Deliberate. Human.Or something close enough to it.The woman—no, the thing wearing her shape—smiled as if she could hear my thoughts clawing their way to the surface.“You understand now,” she said. “Don’t you?”“I understand you’re insane.”“No, Sophia. I’m inevitable.”Her hand pressed flat to the vault. Symbols lit beneath her palm, old tech, something pre-dating even Omega or Echo. This wasn’t abandoned. This wasn’t forgotten.This was sealed on purpose.I stepped between her and Liana, shielding my daughter with my body.“Let her go,” I said again, slower this time. “Or I swear, I’ll burn this place to ash before you take another step.”The woman’s smile didn’t falter.“You think you’re still holding the match?”She gestured behind me.I didn’t turn right away.Not until I heard it—an

Sophia’s POVFor the first time since Damian stepped into that room, he didn’t smile.He stared at Lina like she wasn’t a little girl anymore. Like she wasn’t his niece. Like she wasn’t even human.“What did you say?” he asked, his voice raw with something I didn’t recognize. Fear.Lina wiped the blood from her mouth with the back of her hand. Slowly. Carefully.And then she smiled again.But this time, it wasn’t my little girl’s smile.This smile belonged to something far older. Far colder.“Genesis,” she whispered. “Woke up inside me.”The woman beside Damian—Nyx, or whatever she was now—lurched backward like she’d been struck.“That’s not possible,” Nyx said. “We isolated the fragments—”“You thought you did,” Lina said. “You thought you were in control. But Genesis doesn’t take orders. Genesis evolves.”My heart slammed against my ribs. I didn’t understand this. I couldn’t.This was my daughter. My Lina. I had carried her. I had bled for her. I had loved her into existence.But th

Sophia’s POVI didn’t sleep.Not after what I saw crawl out of that vault wearing my face.Not after feeling her hands on my throat, her breath in my ear, telling me that this was just the beginning.Alex had driven us through the night, through burned-out highways and ghost towns until the horizon bled pink and gold. We didn’t speak much. Words didn’t fit in the silence between us anymore.He kept one hand on the wheel, the other wrapped around mine like if he let go, I might vanish again.Lina sat curled in the back seat, head against Liana’s shoulder. Lena sat beside them, clutching the rifle like a lifeline.We were all bleeding. All broken.But alive.That had to count for something.“I thought you were dead,” Alex said finally. His voice sounded wrecked. Raw. “When the place came down. When the signal cut out… I thought I’d lost you.”“You almost did,” I said. “But you always find me, remember?”He gave a hollow laugh. “One day you’re going to stop saying that and I’m going to s

Sophia’s POVThere are silences that soothe.There are silences that scream.The one wrapping itself around this place was the latter.I could feel it sinking into my skin like frostbite.Like the moment before a heart flatlines.We hadn’t slept.Not really.The girls were curled on the narrow cots, Lina cradling Liana like she could shield her from everything we’d dragged them through. Lena sat against the far wall, rifle across her knees, blood still drying on her temple.Alex was pacing.That was never a good sign.“We can’t stay here,” he said finally, low but sharp enough to cut through the quiet. “You know that.”“I know.”He stopped in front of me. His hands braced on the table, knuckles white. “Then tell me what the hell we’re waiting for.”I didn’t answer right away.Because the truth wasn’t something I could say out loud.The truth was… I wasn’t sure we could outrun this anymore.Not when I could still feel her.The other me.Wearing my face.Moving with my instincts.Thinki