All Chapters of Dear Billionaire Ex, I am more than an arranged marriage: Chapter 71 - Chapter 80

The lab went dead silent the second Lucian disappeared.The humming of the quantum inter-locator cut off, leaving only the faint crackle of ozone in the air. The vortex snapped shut like a door slamming in their faces. Izzy stood frozen, her chest heaving, her hands trembling at her sides. Dr. Thorne braced himself on the console, his white hair damp with sweat. Both of them were staring at the empty space where Lucian had been just seconds earlier.“He’s gone,” Izzy whispered, her voice almost too small to hear.Dr. Thorne didn’t answer right away. His sharp eyes scanned the screens as if there might be some trace left of Lucian, some echo that could be pulled back. But the monitors showed only static and wild data spikes from the Aethelgard anomaly.“No signal,” he muttered, his tone heavy. “No tether, no feedback. He’s cut off.”Izzy swallowed hard. “So he’s really… alone?”“Yes,” Dr. Thorne said quietly. “Completely.”The words hit her harder than she expected. Lucian had stepped

Julian never thought life would land him here. He had been the carefree Thorne, the one who drank too much at galas, who flirted shamelessly, who laughed when others worried about numbers and deals. Responsibility had always rolled off him like rain on glass. But now… now every headline, every panicked phone call, every desperate glance from Ari reminded him that the world no longer allowed him that luxury.Lucian was gone. And with his brother’s absence came the weight of an empire, a family, and perhaps even the survival of nations.Julian wore confidence like a mask. He answered investors with a steady voice, calmed government officials with smooth reassurances, and stood before cameras looking every bit the steady leader. But when the lights were off, and the city outside fell into its uneasy silence, the mask slipped. He often sat alone, shoulders hunched, chest tight, fighting the feeling that he was drowning in someone else’s life.And then there was Ari.Most nights he found h

The Ghost Cell in Lagos had finally tracked their mission to an old factory on the city’s outskirts. The building looked abandoned from a distance with high walls, rusted gates, razor wire curling across the top but the air around it buzzed faintly, as though it carried a secret. From inside, a steady hum of energy leaked out, quiet yet heavy enough to make the skin prickle.That night, the sky above Lagos was in chaos. A quantum storm tore through the clouds, lightning flashing green instead of white. Each strike sent tremors through the city’s weak power grid, plunging neighborhoods into darkness before sparking back to life. It was no accident; Aethelgard had done this deliberately, twisting the storm as a shield.Inside the factory, the Ghost Cell found the source: the emitter. It was no ordinary machine. Its tall frame of glowing pipes and veins of crystal pulsed like a living thing. The light around it bent and warped as though the air itself were cracking. The power coming from

The first time the signal pulsed through the machines, Izzy thought her mind was playing tricks. A faint rhythm, fragile but steady, like a heartbeat trying to cut through a storm. It wasn’t random static. It was him.Lucian.“Dr. Thorne,” she whispered, her hand tightening on the console. “It’s back. The resonance…it’s alive.”Dr. Thorne bent over the readout, his eyes narrowing. The man had been on the edge of despair for weeks, but in that instant, his face lit with a desperate kind of hope.“The quantum echo,” he breathed. “He’s still fighting.”The lab filled with a low hum, the machines straining to translate the pulse into something human minds could grasp. Izzy leaned closer, her breath catching as the static broke apart into flashes; fragments of images that looked more like dreams than reality.A face. His face. Lucian, jaw set, eyes burning with determination. Behind him, landscapes that couldn’t exist; fields of shifting glass, rivers made of light, shadows that bent and t

The air inside the Nexus shimmered like glass on fire. Every step Lucian took felt heavier, like the universe itself was pressing him down. And then he saw her.Eva.Suspended in a crystalline chamber that pulsed like a living heart, her body glowed with threads of quantum light. She wasn’t just Eva anymore, she was something vast, something terrifying, something holy. Her eyes blazed with an ancient power, yet behind that radiance he swore he caught a flicker of the woman he once held, the woman who laughed at his terrible cooking, who whispered promises into his chest when the world felt too heavy.“Eva,” Lucian whispered, voice cracking under the weight of longing and fear.Her head turned. For the briefest moment, the glow softened, and there she was—his Eva. A tear, luminous and unreal, slipped down her cheek and seemed to dissolve into the air.“Lucian…” Her voice wasn’t just sound, it was resonance itself, echoing from the walls, the floor, the very air. “You shouldn’t have com