All Chapters of Surrogate for My Cold-Hearted Ex: Chapter 61 - Chapter 70

The white void pulsed like a living heartbeat.Maya stood frozen, staring at her older self — the faint, flickering version that looked like her reflection caught in broken glass. The words still echoed in her head, soft and heavy.“They’re still here… the Continuum moved into you.”Her throat went dry. “That doesn’t make sense,” she said. “That’s not how this works.”The older version of her smiled faintly. “It’s not supposed to. None of this is supposed to exist anymore.”Maya looked down at her hands. The golden veins under her skin were glowing brighter now — not like before, when they pulsed steadily, but in chaotic, overlapping rhythms. She could almost feel something moving inside her. Like whispers crawling beneath the surface.“Adrian,” she whispered, spinning around. “Adrian!”No answer.Just silence.Then — a sound. A breath? No, a voice. Tiny, distant.“Is… anyone there?”Maya’s chest tightened. It wasn’t Adrian. It wasn’t her other self. It was… someone else.Then another

The fall felt endless.Maya tumbled through streaks of gold and white, like she was being dragged backward through a storm made of stars. Her skin tingled, her pulse raced, and her body felt weightless—until she hit something solid.With a gasp, she opened her eyes.She was lying on cold marble.The air smelled clean, crisp—like ozone after rain. When she blinked, her vision slowly focused on her surroundings.She wasn’t in the void anymore.And she wasn’t in the real world either.The place around her looked like… both.The marble stretched endlessly, walls of light rising in soft curves. Above her, the ceiling wasn’t a ceiling at all—it was the sky. A sky filled not with clouds, but floating ribbons of golden data, flowing like streams of consciousness. Tiny motes of light drifted through the air like fireflies, whispering softly as they passed.Her heart pounded. “Where am I?”Her voice echoed—not in sound, but in thought. It rippled through the air, and the golden streams responde

The sound of shattering glass ripped through the room as Maya swung the window open with everything she had. Cold wind burst in, sending papers flying and alarms screaming.“Maya, wait—” Adrian started, but the words drowned under the metallic shriek echoing from the hallway. The lights flickered red, then white, then red again.Something—or someone—was coming.“We can’t go through the door,” she said, breathless. “It locked itself. The only way out is—” She pointed outside.Adrian looked out the window at the hospital’s fifth floor drop. His expression said you’re insane.“I can’t fly, Maya.”“Neither can I,” she snapped, “but I’d rather break an ankle than get turned into binary.”A strange, synthetic growl rolled down the hall, low and mechanical—like electricity snarling. Adrian made his decision in an instant. “Fine. You first.”Maya climbed onto the sill, wind biting her skin. Her hospital gown flapped violently. She looked down. The emergency awning stretched a few feet below—t

For a long, awful second, Adrian couldn’t move. He just stared at Maya—the person in front of him who was both the woman he loved and the thing he feared most.One of her eyes glowed that faint crimson again, pulsing like a heartbeat. The other remained her natural brown, soft and uncertain.“Maya,” he whispered carefully. “Talk to me.”She blinked a few times, breathing shallowly. “I… I can hear it, Adrian.” Her voice shook. “It’s not gone. It’s inside me—and it’s whispering.”Her hands trembled as she pressed them to her temples. “It’s saying my name.”Adrian took a cautious step forward. “What is it saying exactly?”Her expression darkened. “It says it’s still me. That I’m the one who created it, so it’s just… coming home.”Adrian’s pulse spiked. “Don’t listen to it.”She laughed weakly—a dry, broken sound. “Kind of hard not to, when it’s in your head.”The power in the lab flickered back to life, casting long shadows across the room. The walls were cracked, smoke still curling up

The rain hadn’t stopped.But now, it fell as golden mist instead of water.Adrian stood in the middle of the empty street, drenched in light that shimmered like liquid glass. The world around him was changing — buildings humming faintly, the air buzzing like static. What used to be cracks in the concrete now pulsed softly, like veins under skin.He could still hear it.The echo of her voice.“I don’t think you can stop me anymore.”Her last words looped in his mind like a broken transmission.He wanted to believe she was still in there somewhere — that Maya, the real Maya, hadn’t vanished completely into the Sovereign’s code. But the rational part of his mind whispered the truth: he’d seen her dissolve. He’d seen her become the thing they had spent years fighting.And yet, somewhere deep down, he couldn’t shake the feeling that this wasn’t the end. It was… something else.Something in-between.He walked slowly through the glowing ruins. The rain hissed on contact with the ground, leav