All Chapters of His Dead Wife: No Longer the Surrogate Bride: Chapter 251 - Chapter 260

The Axis Gate descended deeper than any of them imagined.Instead of expecting it to be tunnel or bunker what greeted them were layers being uncovered of the history itself, every step downward felt older and heavier.As though the mountain remembered every death that had occurred beneath it.Now, it will remember them too.Dominic’s group moved through the collapsing bypass corridor with brutal urgency while gunfire echoed endlessly behind and below them.The unknown operators continued pushing from the upper ridges while Luca’s men hunted from the lower descent.The Gate itself kept pressing against their minds with whispers, disorienting them and pressuring them as well as instilling fear.The deeper they descended, the less human the tunnels felt.The walls changed.Stone became smoother in some places, carved deliberately with markings older than modern language. Ancient symbols stretched across the surfaces in faded geometric sequences that seemed almost mathematical beneath the

The convoy heading back toward Blackstone moved slower than before because exhaustion had finally settled over everyone inside the vehicles.The surgery had lasted nearly nine hours.Nine hours of blood, collapsing vitals, microscopic reconstruction, and impossible precision while Althea fought to keep a stranger alive.She and Helena had also met with the family of the patient, who turned out to be the son of 5 Star General bac at their home country, who came to the country for a vacation.And now, with the operation finally over, her mind no longer had anything shielding it from fear.Dominic. The thought returned instantly, heavy and relentless, the moment she sat inside the armored SUV. He’s already probably deep inside the Axis Gate by now. Possibly already fighting Luca. Possibly wounded. Possibly—NO! Althea shouted through her thoughts, shutting down the unimaginable immediately.Althea knew that if she allowed herself to imagine Dominic dead beneath the mountain, she would br

Silence stretched heavily through the library.Rain battered the windows harder outside.August slowly approached the table now and looked down toward the symbol.His expression shifted slightly too as is if he also recognized the symbol, though far less immediate that Seraphina’s.“You’ve seen this before, August?” Althea said quietly toward him.August exhaled once.“Yes.”Althea looked between both of them and anger flared beneath her fear.“You all knew.”Neither denied it.Althea laughed softly then in frustration and exhaustion.“Dominic and most of his trusted men are all underground risking their lives inside the Axis Gate while everyone around him keeps speaking in half-truths and fragments.” She slammed the book down onto the table hard enough to make the candles flicker. “As well as your son, August! But I’m done with that.”The room went silent again.Even August looked slightly surprised by the force in her voice.Althea pointed directly toward the symbol.“What. Does. It

The library remained heavy with silence after Seraphina’s revelations.Rain battered against the tall windows while candlelight flickered softly across the scattered books and ancient diagrams spread over the massive table.The symbol remained at the center of everything.The Custodians.The bloodlines.The Gate.And Alessandro.Althea sat slowly in one of the chairs now, exhaustion finally dragging at her body after the surgery and the endless tension clawing at her mind.But despite the fatigue, her thoughts remained dangerously sharp. She lamented over the fact that every answer they are uncovering only created worse questions.Dominic was underground risking his life inside something tied to centuries of hidden history.And somehow, his father had known all of it.Her eyes slowly lifted toward Seraphina.“How much did Alessandro actually know?” Althea questioned tightly, her knuckles turning white as she gripped her fists.Seraphina remained silent briefly before answering.“More

The chamber surrounding the Axis Core seemed alive in the way mountains remembered storms and oceans remembered every ship that had ever crossed them.The massive sphere of light suspended in the center of the cavern pulsed slowly.Once.Twice.Each pulse sent ripples of silver and gold through the crystalline walls.Dominic stared at it in silence.He wanted to go back home to Blackstone to speak to his mother, to ask what she knows about the Core but he still has questions that he feels needed to be answered.His injuries still ached.The cuts from the battle.The bruises from Aurelio's men.The exhaustion from everything that had happened since discovering the truth about the Valtieri bloodline.But none of those pains mattered now because his world had just shifted.Again."You carry two bloodlines." The Custodian's words echoed through the cavern.Valtieri.Aragon.Two of the four families entrusted with guarding the Axis Gate.Dominic slowly sat on a stone bench near the Core wh