Semua Bab Breed Me, My Boss Alpha: Bab 11 - Bab 18

Smoke covered the sky, and the city lights looked like dying stars. The air was thick with ash, every breath tasting like metal and fear. I didn’t know how long we had been running, but my lungs burned and my legs felt like they could give out any second. Alexander never slowed down. His hand stayed locked around mine as if letting go meant the end.When we finally stopped, we were standing on the edge of a service tunnel that led into the old industrial zone behind the company tower. The fire from the explosion still glowed behind us, painting the streets orange. I could hear sirens in the distance, but no one was coming this way. It was like the city didn’t even know what had just happened.“We can’t stay out here,” Alexander said. His voice was calm again, but his eyes weren’t. “They’ll track movement and heat signatures. We need to disappear.”“Disappear where?” I asked.He turned toward the dark tunnel. “Down there.”Everything in me screamed not to go back underground, but the w

The first thing I felt when I woke up was silence. Not the peaceful kind, but the heavy, wrong kind that fills every corner of the room like smoke. My head was pounding, and my throat was dry. When I tried to move, my body felt stiff, like I had been asleep for a century.The faint light from the monitors flickered across the walls. Alexander was still there, sitting beside me. His eyes were closed, head leaning against the cold wall, exhaustion written all over his face. I watched him for a second. The rise and fall of his chest was the only proof that something real still existed here.Then I heard it again.A soft whisper. Inside my head.“You shouldn’t have left me.”I froze. My heartbeat picked up so fast it hurt. I looked around, but the room was empty except for the two of us.“No,” I whispered. “No, you’re gone.”The voice chuckled. “Gone? I am you. Did you forget already?”I covered my ears, but it didn’t help. The sound wasn’t coming from outside. It was inside me, crawling

There was no sound when I opened my eyes. Only white. Endless, heavy, suffocating white. It wasn’t light or fog or cloud. It was like being trapped inside a blank memory, one that hadn’t been written yet.I tried to move, but my body didn’t respond right away. My legs felt heavy, my hands numb. The air smelled like metal and silence. I wasn’t sure if I was breathing.Then a voice broke through.“Luna Reyes, sequence confirmed.”The sound came from everywhere and nowhere. It wasn’t loud, but it echoed inside my mind, calm and cold like a machine pretending to be kind.I turned slowly, and that was when I saw the first crack in the white. It shimmered faintly, like glass about to break. Behind it, I could see flashes—memories flickering like television static. My mother’s face. The lab. Alexander shouting my name as the light swallowed me.“What is this place?” I whispered.“You are inside the Core,” the voice replied. “Where the system decides what to keep and what to erase.”I swallow

The sun finally broke through the clouds three days after the explosion. For the first time in months, light touched the city without flickering. The smoke had thinned, though the smell of ash still clung to the air. The towers were mostly gone, their glass skeletons hollow and silent. What was left of the streets had turned into makeshift shelters.Alexander and I stayed in the ruins of the research facility, the one place that somehow still stood. The electricity came back in short bursts—enough to keep a few lights glowing and the small generator humming. I hadn’t slept properly since the blast. Every time I closed my eyes, I heard it—the faint heartbeat under the ground, so distant I couldn’t tell if it was real or just memory.Alexander walked in, holding two mugs of instant coffee. He looked exhausted, his shirt torn at the shoulder, a thin bandage wrapped around his hand. “You should eat,” he said.“I’m not hungry.”He sighed and placed the mug beside me. “You haven’t been hung