Lahat ng Kabanata ng His Dead Wife: No Longer the Surrogate Bride: Kabanata 151 - Kabanata 160

The medical wing was bathed in a pale, early light when Althea entered.Morning had fully broken now, but the quiet here remained unchanged. The wing is still, controlled, suspended somewhere between life and recovery. The steady hum of machines filled the air again, a rhythm she had long since learned to read like a second language.Seraphina Valtieri lay where she had been for days.Unmoving.But no longer unreachable.Althea stepped in without a word, already slipping into that familiar space between detachment and care. She reviewed the monitors first, looking at the heart rate steady, oxygen levels stable, neurological responses beginning to normalize.Good. She thought as she glanced at the tablet she is holding. Very good.She moved closer to the bed, her fingers gentle but precise as she checked pupil response, then reached for her tablet to check the chart at the foot of the bed.“Sedation has been fully tapered.” She murmured to herself as she entered the notes. “No signs of

Dominic finally went back to the war room and the atmosphere immediately shifted with his presence.Enzo had already pulled more data from Luca’s system, projections cascading across the screens. Layers within layers, encryption wrapped around intent like armor.Michael stood close, tracking movement while August studied the structure in silence. Sebastian remained where he always was, watching everything, his eyes moving from side to side.“We don’t have long before he notices the breach, Boss.” Enzo muttered. “Whatever we do, we do it fast.”Dominic stepped forward, eyes locked on the display.“Show me the convergence points.” He ordered firmly.Enzo typed on his keyboard and the system immediately reorganized, the lines intersecting and clusters started to form.It was chaos at the first glance but staring at it longer will make one see that beneath it, there’s order.Dominic’s mind moved quickly, breaking it apart, rebuilding it in his head.There. He thought as his eyes narrowed

The war room was empty when Dominic returned.Empty in the way a place feels when it’s waiting to be used again. Screens glowed in low pulses. Data streamed in quiet loops. Luca’s system that Enzo managed to hack stretched across the main display like something alive, layered, deceptive, waiting to be understood or weaponized.Dominic stepped in and closed the door.He didn’t call anyone.Didn’t need anyone.Not yet.He set the tablet down, then press a button on the console to bring the system back up in full projection. The lines unfolded and the nodes lit up. The connections reassembled into motion.And this time, Dominic didn’t look at it the same way.He zoomed first into the convergence point that Nicholas had found.It was clean, elegant and logical.They all pass through this one. Dominic’s jaw tightened slightly as he remembered his son’s words.“You were right, Nico.” He murmured.Because Nico had been the one to see it, anyone in that room would have agreed.But now, this

Althea didn’t speak for a long while as she stayed in Dominic’s arms.The silence between them had changed, not heavy, not sharp but fragile. Like something carefully held together, one wrong word away from breaking.Dominic stayed where he was.Waiting.Because now he understood that when she spoke like a while ago, it wasn’t just explanation.It was memory.“I checked on him.” She said quietly.Dominic’s chest tightened.“Nico?”Althea nodded.“He was afraid.”The word settled deep.Dominic looked down briefly, jaw tightening.“I didn’t mean to—”“I know.” She pressed. She did not sound angry or soft. She sounded tired and she paused for a while. “It took a while. He wouldn’t stop asking why I raised my voice.”Her fingers curled slightly in her lap.“I had to sit with him. Explain it slowly. Carefully.” A faint breath escaped from her. “He kept looking at me like he was trying to figure out if I was still me.”Dominic didn’t interrupt.“And then he asked me something.” She added.D

By the time Dominic left the war room, the plan was already in motion as the men started discussing the advantages and disadvantages, strategies and alternatives.Enzo remained behind to monitor the system.Michael went out ahead of Dominic to discuss a patient with Helena and would return later.Sebastian and August had dispersed, each carrying their own thoughts, their own recalculations.But Dominic didn’t follow them, turning to a different direction. He calmed himself for a while as he knew that shifting from war to stillness is never easy and right now, he chooses the stillness.He walked towards the direction where it is quieter and that mattered more.The garden was alive with late morning light. It added softness, warmth and unthreatening, which contrasts deliberately to everything inside Blackstone.Althea was already there, seated on the low stone bench beneath the trees, her posture relaxed but her eyes attentive.Nicholas sat on the grass a few feet away, his dinosaurs sc