All Chapters of Chasing the Wife He couldn't Love: Ex-Husband's Regret: Chapter 71 - Chapter 80

The giant silver needle moved closer. I could see my own terrified face reflected in its polished tip. It was only an inch away from my eye. My heart hammered against my ribs like a trapped bird. Every muscle in my body pulled against the heavy leather straps, but they didn't budge."Don't worry, Hazel," Evelyn said. She stood by the control panel, her silver hair glowing under the bright white lights. She looked like a queen, but her eyes were as empty as a broken window. "This won't kill you. It will just erase the parts of you that don't fit the story. We need you to be a hero again. A hero who follows the script.""I am not a story!" I screamed. I felt a hot, blue spark in my veins. The blue energy from the butterfly jar hadn't all gone into Bryan. A small part of it was still in my blood, humming, waiting for a reason to explode. "I am a person! I have a d

The bridge of the resistance ship turned into a nightmare in seconds. My father stood in the center of the smoke, his white suit torn and stained with silver oil. He didn't look human anymore. His skin was like thin glass, and I could see the black gears turning inside his chest. He held the black heart high, and every soldier it touched turned into a gray statue of salt."You think you can hide from me, Hazel?" my father hissed. His voice sounded like grinding metal. "I built the world you walk on. I wrote the air you breathe. You are just a character that refuses to die!""I am your daughter!" I screamed. I pushed Elle behind Bryan, my heart pounding so hard I thought it would burst. "How can you do this? How can you look at us and only see data?""Because data is perfect!" he roared. "Data doesn't cry. Data doesn

The giant glass spider the Eraser shrieked as the wall of gold light hit it. It tumbled backward through the dark void of the server, its glass legs snapping like dry twigs. I gripped Bryan’s hand, my feet finally touching the floating platform of code.I couldn't stop staring at the woman standing next to Silas. She had my face, my height, and the same small scar on her chin. But her eyes weren't gold or brown. They were a burning, brilliant red. And behind her, two wings made of flickering orange fire stretched out, lighting up the darkness of the digital world."Who are you?" I gasped, my voice shaking. "You look... just like me."The other Hazel smiled. It wasn't a kind smile. It was a smile full of years of teeth-gritting anger. "I'm the version of you that didn't make it out of the lab fire in the first

My mother’s hand felt like a cold lead weight on my shoulder. I spun around, my heart hammering against my ribs, but the woman I saw wasn't my mother anymore. Her skin had turned into a smooth, liquid silver. Where her eyes and mouth should have been, there was only a flat, shining mirror.I looked into that mirror and screamed. My own reflection wasn't moving with me. In the reflection, I was wearing a black Board uniform with a gold heart pinned to my chest. My reflection smiled at me a slow, cruel twist of the lips."Mom? Stop! It’s me!" I yelled, trying to pull away."The mother is a vessel, Hazel," the mirror-face whispered. The voice didn't come from her; it vibrated inside my own skull. "She was the bridge we used to bring the real Evelyn back. Now, the bridge must be burned."

The bunker smelled like old metal and chemicals. I stood in the center of the room, clutching the glass vial of red smoke. Behind me, Bryan was leaning against the wall, his face pale from the silver needle wound. Elle was huddled near my legs, her eyes wide with a fear no child should ever know.In front of us sat the young Evelyn. She looked like a teenager, but her eyes were cold and sharp. She held a bloody knife in one hand and a remote control in the other."Don't listen to Thomas," the young Evelyn said. Her voice was high and thin. "He doesn't want to save the world. He wants to reset it. That red smoke isn't a cure. It's a biological bomb. If Elle drinks it, her body will become a signal that tells every silver statue on Earth to explode.""Explode?" I gasped. I looked at the red smoke swirling inside the g