All Chapters of 365 Days With My Fake Husband : Chapter 81 - Chapter 85

The descent felt endless.Jessica's boots hit the steel grate with hollow echoes, each step swallowed by the darkness twisting ahead of them. The air grew colder, denser as if the facilty itself were holding it's breath. Aurora gripped her hand tightly, her small fingers trembling. Miguel walked slightly ahead, weapon drawn, shoulders rigid with a soldier's readiness.Claire moved beside the group, expression unreadable, scanning every shadow.Sector Twelve was not just another another part of the facilty. It was the core. The heart.The place where the Project started....and where it was meant to end.A thin vibration thrummed through the walls a low pulse, almost alive.Jessica's voice cracked the silence. "Claire... what is this place really?"Claire didn't look at her. "A vault. A prison. A testing arena. Depends who you ask".She exhaled, eyes hardening."For Romeo, though... it's a trap".

The world came apart behind them.Metal screamed as the ceiling plates tore free, crashing down in violent sucession. The floor titled sharply, throwing Jessica forward as she dragged Romeo with her, every step a fight against gravity and fear. Dust swallowed the corridor, thick and choking, turning the red warning lights into bleeding shadows. Aurora stumbled. Miguel caught her just before she fell, lifting her effortlessly as a section of the wall collapsed where she'd been standing seconds earlier. "THIS WAY!" Claire shouted, pointing toward a narrow passage flickering on her tablet. "Maintenance spine if it's still there!"Jessica's lungs burned. Romeo was dead weight now, his breath shallow, his body trembling as the tremors intensified."I'm slowing you down", he rasped. Jessica didn't even look at him. "Don't you dare".Another explosion rocked the sector. The corridor split open ahead of them, r

The Director pressed his thumb down.The device in his hand pulse once low, resonant like a heartbeat echoing through the vault.Immediately, alarms screamed to life.Red lights flooded the chamber as the pods along the walls hissed, their seals unlocking in staggered succession. Glass panels slide aside with mechanical precision, releasing clouds of cold vapor that curled along the floor like something alive.Jessica's breath caught. "Aurora...:"I know", Aurora said softly. The first figure stepped out of a pod.Then another. And another. They moved stiffly, as if the concept of motion itself was unfamiliar. Their eyes glowed faintly some blue, some amber, some an unsettling white. Each one bore fragments of humanity stitched together with something else: reinforced spines, synthetic veins, markings etched beneath translucent skin.Claire backed away slowly. "They're like her"."N