All Chapters of My Father's Rival Is My Lover : Chapter 121 - Chapter 130

The silence after the storm was deceptive.Ashford Estate stood battered but upright, walls scorched, windows blown, its gardens turned graveyard. The staff walked like shadows, whispering prayers for the lost, while Eva and Samira coordinated recovery teams. Yet beneath the surface, something even more dangerous stirred: a revelation that would make the last war seem like a prologue.Grace held the device with her father's final message in her hand, the words looping in her head like a warning bell.“I left behind one final heir. One who was never activated. One who doesn’t even know what they are yet…”Another heir. Another SEED.“God,” she murmured, pacing the remnants of her father’s old study. “How many secrets are buried in this house?”Nathaniel watched her quietly from across the room, arms folded, a bandage on his jaw. “What are you thinking?”“I’m thinking I’m not done fighting ghosts.”“You’re not,” he agreed. “But this one, this ghost might not even know they’re a weapon.”

The storm had broken over the Ashford Estate like a divine warning, torrential rain pounding the marble terrace, winds screaming against the tall glass windows, and lightning clawing across the sky as if heaven itself was ready to rip apart the world below.But the real war was not of thunder and wind.It was blood and betrayal.Steel and secrets.And at the center of it all stood Grace Ashford, heir to a crumbling empire built on deception, and Adrian, her father’s greatest weapon, and possibly her greatest weakness.The Calm Before JadeThe estate’s underground war room was alive with red signals blinking on the security board. Nyx’s fingers moved across the screen, tracking the encroaching enemy through the outer forest.“They’re splitting into three teams,” she said, voice calm despite the tension. “Snipers to the west. Infiltrators from the south. Tech jammers near the communication tower.”Nathaniel stood behind her, his expression unreadable. “Classic Ashford siege strategy. Ja

The blinking green light beneath the Ashford Estate pulsed steadily in the shadows, like the heartbeat of a buried monster. Far below the restored silence of the manor, the air was thick with electricity, ancient dust, and secrets that had waited too long to wake.On the monitor, lines of code unraveled like prophecy.PROJECT ALPHA_002: STATUS—ACTIVEPRIMARY HOST CONFIRMED: ADRIAN ASHFORDSECONDARY COMMAND: ENGAGE GENESIS MODESomewhere upstairs, Adrian stirred in his sleep.Grace’s DreamGrace didn’t know why she was crying in her dream, only that everything around her was falling.A ballroom.A chandelier crashing.A voice screaming her name.She turned and saw Adrian… not as he was, but younger. A child, barely ten, shackled to a chair with wires in his skin.Behind him stood a man in shadows. Faceless. Watching.“You can’t save him,” the voice said her own, but twisted.“I can try,” she whispered.“Trying costs everything.”Then the floor opened up beneath her and she fell into da

The moment Grace shattered the kill switch beneath her heel, the air in the Ashford Council Chamber thickened like smoke before a storm. Gasps rippled through the council members, some rising from their chairs in protest while others stared in stunned silence.Jade, eyes wide with disbelief, stepped forward. “You’ve doomed him.”“No,” Grace said calmly, standing taller. “I saved him.”Adrian’s heart was pounding. The device was gone. The last safeguard. But he felt more in control now than ever before. The ghost of Alaric was still inside him, but weaker, quieter. As if Grace’s defiance had disrupted the ancient algorithm of the Genesis Protocol itself.“This was never meant to be just about power,” Adrian said, sweeping his eyes over the council. “It was about control. Fear. Alaric ruled from the shadows, convinced emotions were weaknesses. But he was wrong. Love isn’t my weakness. It’s my strength.”“You sentimental fool,” one of the older councilwomen snapped. “You don’t understand

The Swiss dawn crept slowly over the horizon, painting golden streaks across the sky as the Ashford Empire lay in smoldering digital ruins. The Black Tower stood cold and silent, its systems permanently shut down. No more secrets. No more surveillance. No more control.Adrian Ashford stood on the terrace of the lakeside villa, a steaming cup of espresso in hand. The chill bit at his skin, but he welcomed the sting. It reminded him that he was alive. Free. No longer a puppet in his father's twisted empire.Behind him, Grace stirred beneath the soft linen sheets of their shared bed. She had barely slept, and he didn’t blame her. What they’d uncovered in the Tower had cracked open wounds neither of them knew existed. But through the cracks, something new had begun to bloom, honesty, vulnerability, love.He sipped the espresso and stared into the sunrise. His empire had fallen. Now it was time to build something better.But first, he had to face the ghosts still walking among the ashes.T