Lahat ng Kabanata ng Love wasn't in the contract: Kabanata 71 - Kabanata 80

Chapter 71The underground facility groaned around them.A deep mechanical vibration rolled beneath the floor like the building itself had started breathing.Then the emergency lights shifted completely red.“Protocol synchronization at ninety-eight percent.”Somewhere far belowMassive generators thundered alive.Cassian’s face drained of color instantly.“The core is activating.”Seraphine looked toward the descending tunnel sharply.“How far down?”“Three levels,” Cassian answered weakly.A pause.“Maybe less if the emergency elevators still work.”Another violent tremor shook the corridor.Concrete cracked overhead.Dust falling around them in slow gray clouds.Mira cried out again softly in Luca’s arms.Her fingers digging weakly into his jacket.“It hurts…”Luca held her tighter immediately.Like he could somehow protect her from the system eating her alive.Damon crouched beside them.“We’re getting you out of here.”Mira looked at him quietly.“You sound like Luca.”Damon’s ch

Chapter 73“And that… is why I hated you all.”Cassian’s voice broke at the edges of the sentence.Not from weakness.From exhaustion.Years of it.Silence swallowed the chamber afterward.The neural core pulsed violently behind them, flooding the room with blinding white light while alarms screamed through the underground facility.“Synchronization complete in twenty-four seconds.”Luca stared at Cassian like he was seeing him clearly for the first time.Not a rival.Not a monster.A boy designed to die.Cassian leaned heavily against the console, blood dripping slowly from his nose onto the floor.“You were supposed to survive,” he said quietly to Luca.Luca’s chest tightened painfully.“No.”Cassian looked at him with tired eyes.“You still don’t understand.”Fragments of memory slammed violently into Luca again.Young Cassian convulsing during overload testing.Vale recording neural response rates.Hale watching silently while technicians increased voltage levels again and again.

Chapter 75“Stay alive this time.”Cassian’s voice barely survived the chaos around them.But Luca heard it.Every syllable.Every exhausted breath.Every unspoken goodbye hidden beneath it.The chamber shook violently as the neural core surged overhead in waves of blinding white light. Sparks exploded from shattered panels across the walls while warning alarms screamed endlessly through the underground facility.“ABSORPTION FAILURE IMMINENT.”Cassian convulsed hard against the synchronization chair.A sharp cry tore from his throat before he could suppress it.Luca grabbed the sides of the chair helplessly.“Cassian”“Do it,” Cassian gasped.Blood slid from the corner of his mouth.Luca shook his head immediately.“No.”Another violent surge slammed through the system.The floor beneath them cracked sharply.Damon tightened his hold around Mira nearby while Seraphine struggled to stabilize the failing console systems beside Hale.The entire facility was collapsing faster now.And eve

Chapter 77I Tried to Save Her“I didn’t kill her.”The words shattered through the chamber louder than the alarms.Louder than the collapsing facility.Louder than the neural core screaming around them.Damon froze completely.“What?”Luca’s entire body trembled violently beside the neural interface. White light from the core flickered across his face while tears mixed with sweat and blood along his skin.“I remember now,” he whispered.Damon stared at him like the world had suddenly tilted beneath his feet.“What do you mean you remember?”Luca looked wrecked.Not relieved.Not healed.Destroyed.Because the truth didn’t erase the pain.It only changed its shape.“I thought…” Luca’s voice cracked hard.“I thought I shot her.”Another violent surge exploded through the neural core.Cassian screamed against the synchronization overload still tearing through his nervous system.The facility shook again.But Damon barely heard any of it.Because suddenlyEverything he built his hatred a

Chapter 79“No.”For the first time since any of them had met herVale sounded terrified.Not irritated.Not coldly analytical.Terrified.The chamber erupted into violent white light the second Mira touched Cassian’s hand.The neural core screamed.Not mechanically.Almost human.Every monitor in the underground facility glitched simultaneously while warning sirens spiraled into chaos.“ANCHOR REASSIGNMENT DETECTED.”“NETWORK STRUCTURE DESTABILIZING.”“PRIMARY CONTROL FAILURE.”Hale stared at the system in stunned disbelief.“That’s impossible.”But it was happening.Everyone could see it.The neural network pulsing through the chamber had started shifting away from Luca’s imprint.Away from the original synchronization pattern.Toward Mira.And Cassian.Mira gasped sharply as data streams flashed across the walls around them like fractured memories spilling into reality.Images flickered through the room in rapid bursts.Children inside training rooms.Medical reports.Screaming ope