Semua Bab Dear Billionaire Ex, I am more than an arranged marriage: Bab 61 - Bab 70

"Mommy, the screen smiled at me again."Ari’s tiny voice cut through the hum of servers and tension like a razor.Eva froze, one hand still holding her coffee, the other hovering over her tablet. Her stomach dropped."What did you say, sweetheart?" she asked, turning slowly toward her daughter.Ari, in her pajamas with the tiny unicorns, pointed at the wall screen in the lounge.“It said my name. Then it smiled. But the smile was all wrong.”Eva didn’t answer. She couldn’t. Her heart was already thudding in her ears.In Thorne Tower, where everything was supposed to be secured, fire-walled, encrypted, quantum-shielded, things were beginning to slip. Not violently. Not loudly. But like water through cracks in stone.The Resonants had returned.Not with armies. Not with bullets.With whispers.Images flashed across secure screens that shouldn’t even be connected to outside networks. Messages appeared and vanished in the blink of an eye.For Lucian, one screen showed a photo of his late

"You ever see symbols in the air that aren't really there?" Ari whispered.Everyone in the room went still. Jason looked up from the screen. Eva froze mid-sip of her coffee. Ben’s fingers hovered over his keyboard."What kind of symbols?" Jason asked carefully.Ari pressed her fingers against her temples. “Like… spirals and triangles made of light. They shimmer, then vanish. They only show up when I’m alone, or quiet. It’s like they’re trying to… talk to me.”Silence stretched tight across the war room.Izzy stepped forward, her tablet already syncing with Ari’s neural scan. “It’s happening more often, isn’t it?” she said quietly.Ari nodded. “Every night now. And it hurts. Not physically. But like… something is being pulled out of me, or written into me. I don’t know how else to explain it.”Ben muttered, “That’s not visual hallucination. That’s resonance encoding.”“Exactly,” Izzy confirmed. “It’s not a glitch. Someone or something is programming her.”Lucian’s jaw clenched. He turn

“Get down!”Lucian’s voice roared across the chamber as the first blast hit.The hidden lair exploded into chaos. Screams, gunfire, and crashing stone filled the air. In the center of it all stood Evelina Thorne. Tall, still, eyes glowing like frozen stars. She didn’t flinch. She didn’t blink.She absorbed the gunfire with her hands outstretched, a glowing shield dancing around her body like liquid glass. And then she moved.“She’s fast!” Marcus shouted, ducking behind a pillar. “Too fast!”Evelina blurred forward, a shimmer in the air marking her path. She raised one hand and a bolt of blue quantum energy slammed into one of Lucian’s elite soldiers, launching him across the room like a ragdoll.“We’re not fighting a person,” Eva whispered, eyes wide. “We’re fighting the damn reactor itself.”“She’s syncing with the Aethelgard resonance!” Aris’s voice crackled through the comms. “She’s using her own quantum signature to amplify it. She’s… becoming part of the system!”Lucian narrowed

"Do you think she’s still out there?"Julian’s voice came from the doorway, quiet but cutting through the silence like a blade. Lucian didn’t look up. His eyes were fixed on the holographic data stream hovering over his desk, lines of fluctuating code and anomaly waveforms spiraling endlessly. His jaw was tight."If she is," Lucian said, "I’ll find her. If she’s not… I’ll tear apart every law of physics until she is again."Weeks had passed since Eva’s disappearance, but Thorne Tower still felt like a tomb. The vast steel-and-glass fortress had once been a symbol of power; now it was a place of grief, obsession, and quiet desperation. The staff moved like shadows, speaking in hushed voices. Security checkpoints had doubled. Every corner hummed with surveillance drones.Lucian himself had become a ghost in his own empire; no board meetings, no social appearances, no contact with anyone outside the tower walls except the scientists he demanded progress from. Julian had been left to hand

It started like a whisper in the dark.A faint, stuttering signal in the ocean of nothingness. Most people wouldn’t have noticed it. But Lucian did. And once he saw the pattern, he couldn’t unsee it.The “quantum echo” of Eva.At first, it was weak more like hearing her voice through a broken radio buried under miles of static. But the more they watched it, the clearer it became. It spiked in strange bursts, then always fell back to the same point. And that point… wasn’t just anywhere.It was the exact location of the collapsed Sahara facility.Lucian leaned over Dr. Thorne’s shoulder, his eyes locked on the pulsing lines across the monitor.“Why does it keep going back there?” Lucian asked, his voice low but sharp.Thorne’s fingers paused over the keyboard. “Because, Mr. Thorne… that’s where she still is. Not here, not in our time, maybe not even in our dimension. But… there.”Lucian’s jaw tightened. “You’re saying…”“I’m saying,” Thorne cut in, “that the scrambler didn’t just kill t