บททั้งหมดของ Love wasn't in the contract: บทที่ 61 - บทที่ 70

Chapter 62Everything Luca Could Have BeenRain poured through the broken warehouse ceiling in slow cold streams while Damon stood beside Luca facing Cassian.The resemblance between them was horrifying.Not physically alone.Something deeper.The same stillness.The same lethal awareness.The same trained instinct to calculate every exit, every weakness, every possible kill shot within seconds.But where Luca looked humanCassian looked hollow.Like Hale had carved everything out of him until only obedience remained.“You’re staring,” Cassian said calmly to Damon.Damon’s jaw tightened.“I’m trying to figure out how someone can look alive and still be empty.”Cassian smiled faintly.Not offended.Almost entertained.“And I’m trying to understand why Hale let you survive this long.”Luca shifted slightly beside Damon.Protective.Immediate.Cassian noticed.Of course he did.“You place yourself between him and danger automatically,” Cassian observed quietly.“A fascinating degradation

Chapter 64Welcome Back, Children“Division assets returning to primary control.”The distorted voice echoed through the warehouse like a ghost crawling through old wounds.“Welcome back, children.”Every second division operative froze instantly.Including Cassian.The shift was immediate.Terrifying.One second they were fighting with deadly precisionThe next they stood unnaturally still, eyes unfocused like something invisible had reached inside their skulls and flipped a switch.Luca’s blood ran ice cold.“No,” he whispered.Because he knew that voice.Not the person.The system.The old neural conditioning protocol.Buried commands.Emergency override sequences.Psychological triggers designed years ago by Hale’s original network.Impossible.Luca remembered Hale destroying the system personally.He remembered the servers burning.The files erased.So howCassian staggered slightly.Just once.But it was enough.Damon noticed immediately.“What’s happening to them?”Luca grabbed

Chapter 66“Protocol synchronization at sixty-two percent.”The automated voice echoed mercilessly through the warehouse.Cassian screamed again.The sound ripped through Luca like broken glass.He dropped back to one knee beside him instinctively while the second division operatives around the warehouse continued collapsing one after another.Some were unconscious now.Others were barely coherent.A few had started turning weapons on themselves.Damon watched the scene with growing horror.Because these weren’t soldiers anymore.They were victims.Vale remained perfectly calm above them on the upper walkway.Watching children she destroyed die in real time without the slightest trace of remorse.“Deactivate it,” Damon said again.His voice was colder now.More dangerous.Vale tilted her head slightly.“You continue asking as if morality influences outcomes.”Damon’s jaw tightened violently.“No,” he replied quietly.A pause.“I’m asking before I stop being polite.”Something almost a

Chapter 68Cassian’s words hung heavily in the collapsing warehouse.“If you’re going to save us… then stop wasting time.”Luca stared at him silently.Blood streaked across Cassian’s face while his breathing became more unstable by the second.The second division operatives around them were deteriorating fast now.Some unconscious.Some twitching violently.Some already dead.And overheadThe automated voice continued counting down their lives without emotion.“Protocol synchronization at eighty-seven percent.”Damon swore under his breath.“We move now.”Seraphine immediately headed toward the lower corridor entrance, firing two quick shots at collapsing debris to clear the path.“This way!”The floor trembled beneath them again.The entire facility was beginning to fail structurally.Vale watched from the upper walkway with eerie calm.Like she was observing the ending of an experiment she’d already documented.“You won’t make it in time,” she said softly.Luca ignored her.He crou

Chapter 70“Mira!”Luca caught her before she hit the floor.Her body shook violently in his arms while sharp, uneven breaths escaped her lips.The synchronization was accelerating through her nervous system.Too fast.Far too fast.Damon dropped beside them immediately.“What’s happening to her?”Mira grabbed Luca’s sleeve tightly.Fingers trembling.“It hurts…”The words nearly destroyed him.Because suddenly she wasn’t the ghost from his memories anymore.She was real.Alive.Still suffering.And Luca had left her here.Guilt slammed into him so hard he almost couldn’t breathe.“I’m sorry,” he whispered brokenly.Mira looked confused.“For what?”That hurt even worse.Because she genuinely didn’t understand what had been done to her.Vale’s calm voice echoed through the underground corridor again.“The neural synchronization is destabilizing her central nervous system.”Damon looked upward sharply.Pure fury.“You left her down here for years?”Vale answered without hesitation.“Sh