All Chapters of Betrayed Before the Vows: Chapter 111 - Chapter 114

Darkness swallowed the laboratory.Camelia couldn't see William.She couldn't see Daniel.She couldn't even see her own hands.But she could hear Victoria breathing.Fast.Uneven.Afraid.That frightened Camelia more than anything.Victoria had never been afraid before.Then a voice came from the darkness."Lights."Every screen suddenly illuminated.Not the laboratory.A single face appeared.A little boy.Perhaps eight years old.His face was bruised.There was blood beneath his nose.But his eyes were unmistakable.Camelia knew those eyes.She had seen them in her dreams.She had seen them behind glass.She had seen them every time she closed her eyes.The man standing across the room had the same eyes."The first memory," he said.The screen changed.A small room appeared.Four children stood together.William.Elias.Camelia.And the boy.They were holding hands.Camelia's breath caught."We were four."William stared at the screen."No."The man smiled."Yes."Elias stepped forw

"You were never just our creator," Camelia’s voice broke, yet she did not step back. "You are our father."Marcus nodded, his eyes shining like the stars painted across the vaulted ceiling above them. "I am the father who never dared to hold you. I am the man who built hope and destruction in equal measure, praying that from the ruins, you would restore what I had broken."Beside her, Adrian tensed, his hands clenching into fists. "You made us to be tools. Be honest with us, Marcus. Why do we truly exist? To destroy Genesis… or to awaken it?"The man smiled sadly, and all around them, the chamber’s walls shifted—screens of light revealing thousands of faces, names, lives that had been erased. "I built Genesis not to rule, but to save. Twenty-five years ago, the world teetered on the edge of collapse. A plague raged unchecked, and humanity was on the brink of extinction. I found the cure—but it was dangerous, rewriting the DNA of those who received it, changing who they were. I wanted