Semua Bab Desired by My Stepdad and His Sons : Bab 161 - Bab 170

Chapter 161: The One She Couldn’t DeleteThe system didn’t just react.It rebelled.The moment ORIGIN PROTOCOL: ACTIVATED flashed across the collapsing void, everything—code, memory, structure—began to fold inward like it was being dragged back through time itself.Ariana felt it first.Not pain.Not exactly.But pressure.Like something ancient was tightening around her mind, pulling at every layer of her existence.Rewinding her.Erasing her.Rebuilding her.Daniel staggered back for the first time since she had known him.“You don’t understand what you’ve triggered!” he shouted.The calm was gone.The control—gone.Ariana stood her ground, though her entire body felt like it was dissolving.“I do,” she said through gritted teeth.“You said I built the reset to end everything.”The space around them fractured into shards of memories—labs, screens, faces, screams—all spinning backward.“Then this…” she continued, her voice steady despite the chaos, “…this is before everything.”Danie

Chapter 163: The Memory That Wasn’t Hers“You’re here to start the next one.”The words didn’t echo.They settled.Like something final had just been decided—without her permission.Ariana stood frozen.“No,” she said quietly.Not denial.Refusal.“I’m not starting anything.”The man watched her like she was a puzzle he’d already solved.“That’s what you always say.”Her head snapped up.“Always?”Daniel’s expression darkened.“Don’t listen to him.”But his voice lacked conviction now.That confidence—the one thing that always made him feel untouchable—It was gone.Ariana noticed.And that scared her more than anything.Because if Daniel was shaken…Then whatever this was—It was bigger than all of them.“I need proof,” Ariana said, her voice steadier now. “You keep talking about cycles, resets, iterations… then show me.”The man tilted his head slightly.“You really want to see it?”“Yes.”There was no hesitation.No fear in her voice this time.Just something sharp.Determined.The

Chapter 165: The One Who Chose Her“The system wasn’t trying to bring her back… it was trying to build you.”Ariana didn’t react immediately.She just stood there.Staring.Breathing.Trying to understand how everything she believed could twist so violently into something else.“No…” she said finally, her voice low. “No, that doesn’t make sense.”The man didn’t argue.He simply watched her—calm, patient, like he knew exactly how long it would take for the truth to sink in.“You said every reset was to restore her,” Ariana continued, pointing at the body in the chair. “That was the whole point.”“That’s what you believed,” he replied.Her chest tightened.“Then what was the point?”He stepped closer.“Improvement.”The word echoed in her mind.Cold.Precise.Unforgiving.Ariana shook her head slowly.“So all those people… all those deaths…”Her voice cracked.“They were just experiments?”The man’s expression didn’t change.“They were variables.”Something inside her snapped.“You’re i

Chapter 167: The Version That Lied“…and it’s worse than the cycle.”The words didn’t just hang in the air.They sank.Heavy.Suffocating.Ariana didn’t move.Her hand still rested against the glitching door, the surface flickering under her fingertips like it was reacting to her hesitation.Slowly—Very slowly—She turned.Daniel stood a few steps behind her.But not her Daniel.This one looked… worn.Not just tired.Used.Like he had lived through something that stripped pieces of him away and never gave them back.“Ariana,” he said again, softer this time. “Don’t open it.”Her heart pounded violently.“How are you here?”He didn’t answer immediately.His gaze flickered briefly to the door.Then back to her.“I found a way.”The answer was too simple.Too easy.And Ariana didn’t trust easy anymore.“You’re not supposed to be in this layer,” she said, her voice steady despite the chaos inside her.A faint smile touched his lips.“Neither are you.”Silence.Behind her, the glitching d

Chapter 169: The Thing Wearing Her Face“You became the next version of it.”The words didn’t echo.They replaced everything.The light around Ariana didn’t just flicker this time—it glitched. Like something beneath it was cracking through, like the perfect blank world she thought she had created was only a surface.A surface hiding something much worse.Ariana’s chest tightened. “No.”Her voice sounded smaller now.Less certain.“I ended it,” she said again, firmer this time. “I destroyed the system.”The girl in front of her—the version of her—tilted her head slowly.“Did you?”The question wasn’t loud.But it hit like a slap.Ariana took a step back.The space responded.Not smoothly.Not naturally.It lagged.Like reality itself had a delay.Her breath caught.“You feel it, don’t you?” the girl said softly.Ariana didn’t answer.Because she did.Something underneath this place—Something watching.“You didn’t destroy the system,” the girl continued. “You just removed its structure