All Chapters of Crave Me,Kill Me: Chapter 111 - Chapter 120

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Chapter 111: Reassembled System

Three weeks later, the city didn’t look reborn.It looked awake.The filters that once cloaked the skyline in synthetic gleam were gone. Giant projection boards now streamed citizen-submitted images unedited, glitchy, pulsing with color and contradiction. Even the transit grid chimed differently, the voiceover raw, emotionally voiced by volunteers instead of coded monotone.And in the heart of the Central Administrative Forum, a new panel rose not elevated, not behind glass. Just a circular table, open on all sides.There were no assigned chairs.Just space.Aria stood at the edge, dressed in a deep gray jacket over a simple black tee, her fingers curled around a digital slate containing the first draft of the reassembled governance protocol.She didn’t speak first.Cassian did.Not into a mic.But directly to the people.“We’re not rebuilding Eden. We’re not replacing the Council. We’re acknowledging that any system designed to filter the human experience will eventually try to own i

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Chapter 112: The Found Family

They gathered in the courtyard behind the district’s new community hall once a tribunal processing center, now stripped of scanners, stripped of judgment. Just brick and air and presence.No one had been summoned.No invitations sent.They just… arrived.Nova was first, with a tablet under one arm and a half-eaten pastry in the other.“I brought data,” she announced. “And carbohydrates.”Cassian, already leaning against the ivy-wrapped wall, arched a brow. “Bribery?”“Bribery,” she confirmed, dropping the pastry box with a theatrical thud.Next came Rae hair shorter now, buzzed down one side, a new scar trailing down the back of her neck. She didn’t speak when she entered. She just hugged Aria for too long, then shoved a folded map into her hands.“Resource hubs. People who slipped through. No one’s tracking them yet. But they still want to help.”Aria nodded, throat tight. “Then we’ll find a way to fold them in.”Elias arrived not long after, sleeves rolled, voice already half-lost f

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Chapter 113: Eden & Cassian at Home

The apartment wasn’t new.It wasn’t fortified.It wasn’t even smart.It was just… theirs.One floor above a community arts co-op. One door down from a retired baker who played cello badly but with complete joy. The kind of building where no one blinked when someone screamed from a nightmare, or danced barefoot at 2 a.m., or cried in the stairwell.Cassian had signed the lease under a name that wasn’t filtered by legacy.And Eden Aria had painted the front door herself. Not metaphorically. With real brushes, chipped nails, and a color called burnt persistence.The walls were uneven. The windows stuck. The radiator hissed in the winter like it had something to say.But it was the first place in either of their lives that hadn’t been chosen for them.Inside, there were no weapons.No security nodes.No expectation of clarity.Just a coat hook by the door, a half-sanded dining table, and two coffee mugs one cracked, one stolen from the old Council kitchen.Aria stood barefoot in the kitch

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Chapter 114: Lingering Ghosts

It started with a sound that didn’t fit.The apartment was full of familiar rhythm: the rattle of the radiator, the soft tick of their secondhand clock, the clatter of Cassian flipping through breakfast dishes.But this This was too soft.Too intentional.A slip of static at the window.Aria paused mid-step in the hallway, holding a mug of tea. She didn’t drop it. She didn’t flinch. She simply listened.Again: the static.A barely-there blip of interference, like a signal catching the wrong wire, just long enough to register.She turned back toward the kitchen.“Cassian.”He looked up immediately. Her tone had changed, just slightly.“What is it?”Aria walked to the front windows, eyes scanning the street. The usual: a courier on a bike, a child chasing a paper ring, a woman setting out plants on the stoop.But her gaze caught on the third window across.Someone watching.Not moving.Not hiding.Just watching.Cassian joined her, quiet and tense.“I count one,” he said.“Same,” she r

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Chapter 115: Reunion

The morning light found them on the apartment terrace, savoring silence and slow sips of coffee. An unexpected knock at the door broke their reverie. They exchanged glances uncertainty flickering across tired but hopeful eyes.Cassian rose, his bare feet echoing softly on the wooden floor. Aria followed. As he opened the door, they were greeted by Rae boots muddy, jacket draped over her arm, hair tousled from early activity. She looked both triumphant and wary.“Thought you’d want to know,” she said, holding up her tablet with a brief nod. “Lyra’s network isn’t rebuilding. They’re reaching out. Invitations are going out to ex-regulators, old council members, even some of Cassian’s former aides.”Aria’s chest tightened. “What kind of invitations?”Rae scrolled. “An offer to rejoin. To reconcile. To help rebuild Eden under the promise of oversight.” She swallowed. “Some of them are taking it.”Cassian closed the door, letting it click softly behind Rae. He leaned against it, arms folded

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Chapter 116: Echoes of Control

It began with a message.Not from Nella.Not from the network.From the system itself.Or what was left of it.A rogue node flickered alive inside a dormant Eden terminal one buried beneath the old Vale archives Cassian had ordered sealed months ago. No access, no alerts.Until now.Aria stood in front of the terminal, breath held, fingers hovering just inches from the holographic keys. The screen didn’t ask for credentials. It opened automatically.A single prompt:“Are you ready to restore baseline influence sync?”She didn’t touch it.Didn’t need to.Because the node this ghost wasn’t asking to be revived.It was asking to be obeyed.Cassian entered behind her, his voice quiet. “This was never supposed to be active.”She didn’t turn. “It’s not active.”Cassian moved closer, the air between them dense. “Then why does it feel like it’s watching?”Aria’s voice was barely audible.“Because part of me remembers what it felt like to be chosen by it.”He stepped to her side, gaze fixed on

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Chapter 117: The Betrayal

The knock came just before dawn.Not the hesitant tap of a messenger.Not the pounding of emergency.Three soft raps.Measured.Intentional.Cassian answered the door in a low shirt, Aria standing just behind him, tension already blooming in her chest.Nova stood in the doorway.Eyes bloodshot.No device in hand.Just her.Raw.Silent.Aria stepped forward. “Nova?”She didn’t speak. Just held up a paper.Cassian took it.One page.No header. No seal.Just a transcript.A copied dialogue from three nights ago.Lines spoken between Cassian and Aria during the node breach.“I still want it.”“You didn’t want control. You wanted to belong.”Cassian’s blood chilled.“How ”Nova’s voice cracked. “It leaked. To Council Archive Forty-Six. Disguised as a corruption test file. Someone burned it into the meta-cache during the terminal wipe.”Aria stepped back like she’d been slapped.“No one else was in the room.”Nova swallowed. “That’s not the worst part.”She handed over a second slip.Encryp

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Chapter 118: Uncovered

It began with a silence.Not metaphorical.A literal data blackout twelve seconds, localized to sector seven. Just long enough for the city’s archive relay to skip a beat.Nova flagged it first.She burst into the apartment before breakfast, breath short, tablet glowing.“No one triggered it. No one’s claiming it,” she said, pacing.Cassian took the slate from her hands.Aria followed the playback. “Twelve seconds of no transfer. No ping. No trace.”Nova nodded. “Which doesn’t happen unless someone buried something inside the gap.”Cassian’s voice dropped. “A worm?”“No,” Nova said, jaw tight. “A replacement.”Aria frowned. “What kind of replacement?”Nova hesitated.Then pulled up a secondary file.It wasn’t marked by the system.It wasn’t tagged by any known protocol.It was signed By Aria.Only she hadn’t written it.The room chilled, but the air didn’t move.Aria stared at the file.It was her voice her cadence, her sentence structures. Down to the way she clipped off the word co

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Chapter 119: The Purge

They didn’t leave the vault.Not right away.Because you don’t flee from your shadow.You erase it.Cassian stood in front of the mainframe, its synthetic warmth radiating like breath on skin. He watched his own image flicker across one of the displays silent, patient, unsettlingly serene.Aria moved behind him, her reflection glitching on a nearby screen. It looped her smile. Not the confident one.The unguarded one.The version no one else was ever supposed to see.Nova’s voice came from the far terminal. “There’s no single shutdown command. It’s not centralized it’s rooted in fragments. They scattered the core so it can’t be purged all at once.”“Like emotional horcruxes,” Rae muttered, pacing the perimeter.Cassian’s voice was low, seething. “So we don’t shut it down.”Aria stepped forward, eyes narrowing. “We unmake it.”Nova turned, wary. “That’ll burn trace elements of your original Eden node. It means losing… everything.”Aria didn’t blink. “Good.”Cassian’s eyes flicked to he

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Chapter 120: Soul Supply

The child didn’t speak for the first three hours.Not with words.Only with eyes wide, unblinking, watchful. As if language itself had been used too often as a weapon and could no longer be trusted.Aria sat across from him, legs crossed, hands resting on her knees.She didn’t smile.She didn’t reach.She waited.Cassian stood near the wall, leaning into the threshold like a stormbreaker present, protective, still. Not a threat. A question mark.The boy’s name was Ivo.Six years old.Found in a decommissioned Eden off-site two nights earlier alone, dehydrated, curled into the corner of a utility locker like some piece of forgotten wiring.Nova had contacted Aria before the transport team even had a destination. No orphan center. No file match.Just a note:“He recognizes your face. No fear. Just… stillness.”Now he sat in their living room, knees drawn to his chest, silent as circuitry.Aria leaned in slowly.“Ivo,” she said softly. “You don’t have to explain. Not yet. Maybe not ever.

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