All Chapters of Love wasn't in the contract: Chapter 81 - Chapter 90

Chapter 81“Now I actually want to survive.”The confession landed softly.Quietly.But it shattered something open inside the room.Cassian looked almost annoyed by the admission.Like wanting to live was inconvenient.Embarrassing.Dangerous.And maybe for someone raised the way he wasIt was.Luca stared at him silently, Cassian’s trembling hand still locked tightly in his own while the synchronization chair sparked violently around them.“You’re going to,” Luca said immediately.Cassian gave him a look that practically screamed that’s medically impossible.“Luca.”“No.”The answer came sharper this time.Desperate.“You do not get to die after emotionally traumatizing me with childhood archive footage.”Despite the blood pouring down his faceCassian laughed.A real laugh this time.Weak and breathless.Damon rubbed a hand over his eyes.“This entire facility needs therapy.”Seraphine snorted despite herself.“Understatement of the century.”Another violent tremor ripped through t

Chapter 83Because nobody had ever sounded afraid to lose him before.The realization hit Cassian harder than the overload burning through his nervous system.For a secondJust one secondHe forgot the pain.Luca’s voice still echoed in his head.“I can’t lose him.”Not we.Not he’s useful.Not we need him alive.Him.Cassian stared at Luca through blurred vision while electricity cracked violently around the synchronization chair.The neural ports behind his neck burned like molten metal inside his spine.His heartbeat had become dangerously uneven.And somehowThat sentence scared him more than dying.Because wanting to survive was already terrifying.Being wanted?That was worse.Cassian laughed weakly despite the blood in his throat.“Well,” he rasped painfully, “that seems emotionally unhealthy.”Luca looked furious immediately.“You’re literally dying and still joking.”“I cope beautifully under pressure.”Another violent surge ripped through the chair.Cassian cried out sharply

Chapter 85“The torture machine ships you two.”For one full secondNobody spoke.Then Seraphine made a choking sound that was dangerously close to laughter.“You know what?” she said, rubbing both hands down her face. “I think we’ve officially gone insane.”Cassian weakly pointed toward the neural core.“In my defense…”A painful breath.“It literally responds better when they emotionally stabilize each other.”The chamber pulsed softly behind him.Almost validating the statement.Damon stared at the neural core in visible horror.“I hate that he might be right.”Luca looked like he wanted the collapsing facility to crush him instantly.“This conversation needs to die.”Cassian’s faint smile widened slightly despite the blood at his lips.“Too late.”Mira tilted her head softly.Confused.“What does ‘ships you two’ mean?”“Oh absolutely not,” Damon said immediately.Cassian ignored him completely.“It means,” he rasped weakly, “the giant evil trauma network thinks you’re emotionally

Chapter 87“They don’t want him to be alone.”The words settled over the chamber like a prayer.The archived children surrounding the room stood silently in flickering white light.Watching Cassian.Waiting with him.Not as ghosts.Not as weapons.As children who understood pain too well to let someone face it alone.Cassian looked toward the projections weakly from the synchronization chair.Blood streaked down the side of his neck now.His breathing shallow.Uneven.And for the first time since entering the facilityHe looked genuinely overwhelmed.“…that’s rude,” he whispered hoarsely.Luca frowned through panic.“What?”Cassian’s eyes glistened faintly beneath the flashing white light.“You can’t emotionally devastate someone while they’re dying.”Despite everythingLuca let out one shaky breath of laughter.And the projections flickered softer again.The system responded to warmth now.To connection.The realization still felt impossible.A machine built from suffering learning c

Chapter 89Not Scared Anymore“They’re not scared anymore.”Mira’s voice trembled through the collapsing chamber.Soft.Certain.And somehowThat simple sentence silenced everything else for one impossible second.The alarms still screamed.The reactor still failed.Concrete still cracked overhead.But the fear inside the room had changed.The archived children surrounding the chamber no longer looked trapped.No longer looked panicked.They looked tired.Sad.And ready.Luca stared at them through burning eyes.Children who should’ve had birthdays.Families.Lives outside cold laboratories and synchronization chambers.Children who deserved futures instead of becoming fragments inside a machine.And yetDespite everythingSeveral of them smiled at him gently.Like they forgave him for surviving.The realization nearly shattered him.Cassian noticed immediately.Even half-conscious.Even dying.“You’re doing the guilt thing again.”Luca looked toward him sharply.“How are you still no