Lahat ng Kabanata ng THE BIKER'S NEW FOUND MATE : Kabanata 111 - Kabanata 120

"Let her go!" I screamed through every person in the building. Through Reaper. Through Subject Seven. Through Victoria. Through everyone. All speaking at once. All desperate. All helpless.The woman laughed. "You can't even form properly, Eva. You're too scattered. Too weak. Too busy being foundation to be fighter. How are you going to stop me?"Grace struggled. Pulled against the woman's grip. "Mommy, help! Please help me!"I tried. God, I tried. I pulled at my consciousness. Tried to gather it. Tried to become focused enough to fight.But the moment I did, I felt it. Felt enhanced people worldwide starting to collapse again. Felt them losing control. Felt the network straining under my absence.I couldn't gather without killing hundreds of people.I couldn't save my daughter without destroying everyone else."That's right," the woman said. She could feel my struggle. Feel my impossible choice. "You can't save her. You can only watch. That's what being foundation means. You gave up b

Inside the prison I'd made of myself, Grace cried.Not because she was hurt. Because she understood what I'd done. What it meant. What it cost."Mommy, please," she sobbed. "Please don't do this. Please find another way. Please—""There is no other way, baby," I said softly. My voice existed only inside our shared space now. Only in the consciousness trap I'd become. "This is how I save you. How I save everyone. How I finally—finally—do something right."The woman raged inside me. Clawed at my consciousness. Tried to break free. But I held tight. Wrapped around her like chains. Like walls. Like mother's arms protecting child from monster."You can't hold me forever," the woman snarled. "Eventually you'll weaken. Eventually you'll—""Eventually doesn't matter," I said. "What matters is now. What matters is Grace gets to live. Gets to grow up. Gets to be more than vessel. More than host. More than tool."Outside our shared consciousness, Reaper's body collapsed. Empty now. Just meat wit

Three months passed.The world looked different now.No more enhanced people. No more quantum powers. No more abilities that bent reality. Everyone was baseline again. Human again. Normal again.The cost had been enormous.Seventeen thousand people died when their powers vanished. Some from injuries. Some from shock. Some from despair at losing what made them special.The Rusty Spoke was quieter now. Half empty. The bikers who'd survived came back eventually, but the joy was gone. The family was broken.Subject Seven worked the bar most nights. She looked older without her powers. Tired. Human in ways she'd forgotten she could be."Another beer?" she asked a customer.The man nodded. Didn't speak. Nobody spoke much anymore. What was there to say?In the back room, Albert sat alone.He'd aged ten years in three months. Hair graying at the temples. Lines on his face that hadn't been there before. Eyes that looked empty. Dead.On his lap sat Grace's stuffed rabbit. The one she'd held eve

Inside the prison, time moved differently.Days felt like years. Years felt like seconds. Everything blurred together into endless present where past and future didn't exist. Just now. Just holding. Just being cage.Grace clung to me in the darkness. Not physical darkness. Consciousness darkness. The absence of everything except awareness and pain and desperate love."Mommy, I'm scared," she whispered. For the thousandth time. For the millionth time. Time had no meaning here but fear was constant."I know, baby. I'm scared too.""How long have we been here?"I didn't know. Couldn't know. "Not long. Just—just a little while.""It feels like forever.""I know."James floated nearby. His presence was gentle. Strong. But sad. So deeply sad."I miss the sun," he said quietly. "I miss—I miss feeling warm. I miss my mother even though I killed her. I miss being boy who played instead of consciousness that's prison. I miss—""Stop," the entity said. She spoke rarely now. Saving her strength.

Inside the prison, we learned to exist together.Not live. Existing wasn't living. But we made it—bearable. Almost."Tell me a story, Mommy," Grace said. She asked this often. Clinging to rituals from before. From when she was just three-year-old girl instead of consciousness cage."What kind of story, baby?""A happy one. About us. About when we were real."I searched my fading memories. Found fragments. Pieces of life before prison."Once upon a time," I started slowly, "there was a little girl who loved dinosaurs.""That's me!" Grace said. Excited. Like she'd forgotten and just remembered. "I loved dinosaurs! I had—I had toys. Didn't I? Little plastic ones?""Yes. You had twelve of them. You named them all. The T-Rex was—was—" I couldn't remember. The name was gone. Lost to the fading."Bitey," Albert said softly. "You named him Bitey. Because he kept biting your other toys.""Bitey," Grace repeated. Wonder in her voice. "I remember now. I remember playing with him. Making him stom