Semua Bab FRACTURED VOW : Bab 91 - Bab 97

Ethan couldn't move.Every person in the city stood perfectly still.Golden eyes stared at him.Then, together, they spoke.“HELLO, ETHAN.”The baby beside him tightened her grip on his hand.“Don't answer them.”Ethan swallowed.“Why?”“Because they're not people anymore.”One of the figures stepped forward.A woman Ethan didn't recognize.Her voice was calm.“You belong to us.”Ethan stepped backward.“No.”The woman smiled.“You were made for us.”The baby pulled him away.“Run!”They turned.The city had changed.Every street was filled with golden-eyed people.There was nowhere to go.Then the sky thundered.Ava's voice echoed through the city.“ETHAN!”He looked upward.“Ava!”“Find the old laboratory.”“Where?”“Beneath the city.”The baby suddenly pointed.“There!”A crack had opened in the ground.Beneath it was a staircase.Ethan grabbed the baby's hand.“Come on.”They descended.Behind them, the golden-eyed crowd began following.Slowly.Silently.Never running.As though

The hand entered the world.And reality began to bleed.Buildings dissolved into silver dust. The roads twisted upward, folding into the sky like pages being torn from an invisible book. The golden threads connecting Ava to World 24 snapped one after another, each break sending a wave of pain through the earth.Ethan heard Ava scream.Not through the sky.Inside his own chest.He fell to his knees.“Ava!”The enormous hand tightened around the edge of reality.And the golden-eyed man—the one who had called himself Ethan's father, staggered backward.“No,” he whispered.For the first time, Ethan saw him as something other than a powerful creator.He saw a frightened man.“It's impossible,” the man muttered. “You were sealed beyond the first boundary. I destroyed the entrance.”The voice from beyond creation answered.“YOU DESTROYED NOTHING.”The world shook.“YOU ONLY FORGOT WHERE YOU BURIED IT.”Eden began to cry.Ethan crawled toward her, grabbing the golden chains wrapped around her

Ethan couldn't breathe.The little boy stood beside Ava, holding her hand as though he had known her all his life.He had Ethan's face.Ethan's eyes.Even the tiny scar above his left eyebrow.But there was something else about him.Something that made Ethan's heart ache with a grief he couldn't explain.“Ethan,” Ava whispered, “please say something.”He looked at her.Then at the child.Then back at her.“You're telling me we had a son?”Ava nodded, tears shining in her silver eyes.“In the first world.”“And he died?”“Yes.”The word fell between them like a sentence.Ethan staggered backward.“No.”“I'm sorry.”“No, Ava. Don't apologize to me. Explain it!”The little boy squeezed Ava's hand.“Mother, he's angry.”Ava knelt beside him.“He has every right to be.”The boy considered that.Then he looked at Ethan.“Are you angry because you forgot me?”Ethan's mouth opened, but no words came out.How could he answer a child who remembered being his son when he himself remembered nothi

The man climbing out of the darkness had Ethan's face.But he wasn't Ethan.His movements were too precise. His expression was too controlled. Even the way he breathed seemed deliberate, as though breathing was a skill he had learned rather than something his body did naturally.He stepped onto the laboratory floor.Then he looked at Ava.For several seconds, he studied her.Finally, he smiled."Administrator Ava Collins."Ava went completely still.Ethan noticed."Do you know him?"She didn't answer.The stranger turned toward Ethan."Of course she knows me. She created the circumstances that led to my existence."He extended his hand."Allow me to introduce myself. I am Ethan Zero."The original Ethan swore under his breath."Oh, this is worse than I thought."Ethan glanced at him. "You know him?""I know what he represents.""Then explain."The original Ethan stared at Ethan Zero."He is the first complete version of the consciousness your father tried to reconstruct. Before the me