All Chapters of Ghost on the highway : Chapter 51 - Chapter 60

CHAPTER 51 — Beneath the SurfaceThe elevator doors slid open with a soft chime, but the atmosphere inside Aiden’s penthouse was anything but soft.Luca walked in first, hesitant, his eyes scanning the luxurious space—the tall windows, the dim city lights, the silent tension humming in the air.Aiden walked in behind him, closing the door with a click that sounded heavier than usual.For a moment, neither of them spoke.Luca turned around slowly.“Aiden… talk to me.”His voice was soft, careful.“Tell me exactly what’s going on.”Aiden removed his coat and draped it over the chair, his jaw set in a way that meant he was holding back an entire storm.He faced Luca.“The Black Serpents aren’t bluffing. They’ve been tracking you for days.”He paused, breath tightening.“And they sent a message tonight.”Luca swallowed. “What message?”“That if I don’t give them what they want…” Aiden’s hands curled into fists.“…they’ll take you.”Luca’s heart thudded painfully.“I thought you said you k

CHAPTER 53 — Fractured ShadowsAiden stood frozen, the tag clutched in his hand as if it were a live wire. Luca’s words burnt through him—engineered… not the only one…—and the room seemed to shrink around him, suffocating with every heartbeat.“Engineered?” Aiden whispered, voice low and deadly. “Luca… what the hell does that mean?”Luca stepped closer, trembling, hands shaking as he reached for the chair to steady himself. “I… I can’t explain everything right now. Not without risking your life. But the Serpents… they didn’t just take me. They created me. They experimented. Trained me from birth. Every skill… every reaction… every time I thought I was free, I was still… part of them.”Aiden’s fists clenched. His mind raced. The pieces that had never fit together—the reason Luca always sensed danger first, why he seemed to anticipate moves that even the deadliest could not—everything clicked. And it made his blood boil.“They lied to me. To both of us,” Luca continued, voice breaking.

CHAPTER 55 — Shadows of the PastThe rain pelted down harder now, hammering against Aiden and Luca like a drumbeat of doom. The convoy of black SUVs sat like predators, their headlights slicing through the dark street, illuminating every drop of rain like shards of glass.Aiden’s jaw clenched. He could feel Luca trembling beside him—not from fear, but from the cold. His heart ached. He couldn’t let this happen. Not after everything.And then the figure stepped closer from the shadows.Tall. Muscular. Cold eyes that seemed to pierce through the rain. Familiar, yet impossible.It was… Rico.Rico, Luca’s brother.Dead—or at least, that’s what they’d all believed.“Rico?” Luca’s voice cracked, disbelief and hope mixing in a dangerous swirl. “You… you’re alive?”Rico’s lips curved in a ghost of a smile. “Alive, yes. Free? Not quite.” His gaze flicked toward the convoy, then back to Luca. “They made me disappear. Thought I’d never return. But here I am. And you… you’re right on time.”Aiden

CHAPTER 57 — Ashes and AwakeningThe world came back to Aiden in shards. Smoke choked the air. Sparks rained from cracked beams. Concrete dust coated everything like snow, settling on blood and sweat alike.Aiden’s ears rang. His lungs burnt. He coughed violently, clawing through the wreckage.“Luca!” he screamed, voice hoarse, raw.Silence answered him. Only the low hum of dying machinery echoed in the ruins.Aiden pushed through the debris, every step an effort. Blue light flickered from a corner of the chamber. His heart skipped.He found him.Luca lay on the floor, chest heaving, sweat and blood mixing. But something had changed. His eyes flickered—not with fear, not with exhaustion—but with… power. A low glow, faint yet undeniable, pulsed from beneath his skin.Aiden fell to his knees beside him. “Luca… are you okay? Talk to me!”Luca’s lips trembled as he looked up. “I… I don’t know.” His voice was raw, shaken. “It’s… inside me. I feel it… and I can’t control it… completely.”Ai

CHAPTER 59 — The Eye of the SerpentsRain pelted down like shards of glass. The street trembled beneath the combined energy of Luca and the ancient force stirring within him. Lightning streaked across the sky, reflecting the chaos below.The Serpents advanced, weapons glinting, faces hidden beneath hoods, and every step seemed to amplify the tension, every movement a drumbeat of impending violence.Aiden stepped in front of Luca, fists clenched. “We fight together. No hesitation.”Luca’s glow flared violently, energy arcing from his body, crackling through the street. “I… I can’t hold it much longer,” he admitted, voice layered with his own and something deeper, something older.Aiden nodded. “Then we use it. All of it. Let it fight for us.”---The First StrikeDarius stepped forward, calm in the chaos, a twisted smile curving his lips. “Let’s see what your little gift can do, Luca. Or maybe I should call it… mine.”Energy surged between Luca and the shadowy force within him. The air