All Chapters of FRACTURED VOW : Chapter 81 - Chapter 90

Ava fell through darkness.There was no wind.No ground.No sound.Only the sensation of falling through something that felt strangely familiar.Then Eve Prime spoke.“Open your eyes, Ava.”Ava refused.“Leave me alone.”“You wanted the truth.”“I want you out of my head!”“Then stop being afraid of what you are.”Ava opened her eyes.And screamed.She was standing in the middle of a city unlike anything she had ever seen.Buildings stretched into the clouds, their surfaces shimmering with silver light. Vehicles moved silently above the streets. Thousands of people walked beneath enormous holographic screens displaying the same symbol.A circle.Inside it was a single eye.Ava recognized it immediately.Genesis.But this was not the Genesis she knew.There were no ruins.No laboratories.No signs of war.The world was alive.Beautiful.Perfect.Almost frighteningly perfect.A woman passed beside Ava, laughing as she spoke to a man. Children chased one another through a fountain. Vendo

Ava stared at Ethan.“I did.”The words echoed through the laboratory.Again.Again.Again.Ethan had killed her.But Ava couldn't make sense of it.“You?”Ethan didn't move.“Yes.”The original Ava stepped forward.“Ethan, don't.”He looked at her.“She deserves to know.”Ava's voice trembled.“Tell me.”Ethan closed his eyes.“I killed the first child.”Ava swallowed.“Why?”“Because she discovered what we were doing.”“What were you doing?”“Resetting the worlds.”Ava looked toward the child on the platform.“She remembered everything.”“Yes.”“And she wanted to stop you.”“She wanted to stop you.”Ava frowned.“Me?”Ethan nodded.“She believed that if you continued resetting the worlds, eventually there would be nothing left of you.”Ava looked at the original Ava.“And you?”The woman lowered her head.“I agreed with her.”“Then why did you let Ethan kill her?”“I didn't.”The room suddenly went silent.Ava looked between them.“You said you didn't kill her.”“I didn't.”Ethan's

The silence after the countdown reached zero was terrifying.Ava waited.Nothing happened.No reset.No explosion.No darkness.Instead, somewhere beyond the laboratory, a single voice whispered,“Where am I?”Then another.“Who am I?”Then thousands.Millions.Billions.The voices grew louder until they became one enormous wave of consciousness.Eve Prime stared at Ava.“You didn't destroy the system.”Ava looked at the symbol glowing in her palm.“No.”“You opened it.”Ava slowly nodded.“I gave them a choice.”Eve Prime's expression hardened.“You don't understand what you've done.”“For once, I do.”The walls of the laboratory disappeared.Ava saw the worlds.All twenty-three.They weren't separate anymore.They existed simultaneously.People who had died in one world were alive in another.Children who had never been born were walking through cities.Different versions of Ethan were standing beside different versions of Ava.And every person could suddenly see the others.The Col

CHAPTER 88 — THE MAN WHO WAS NEVER HUMAN“Ethan!”Ava spun around.He was gone.The bedroom was empty.Only the crib remained.The baby stared at her.Ava rushed toward the door.“Where did he go?”The baby didn't answer.“Where is Ethan?”“He went where he always goes.”“Where?”“To the beginning.”Ava froze.“The beginning of what?”“Everything.”The walls suddenly lit up.A single image appeared.Ethan.Standing alone in a white room.But he wasn't the Ethan Ava knew.He looked younger.Different.His eyes were completely black.Ava stepped closer.“What is that?”The baby answered softly.“His original form.”Ava stared at the image.Ethan was standing in front of a massive machine.Behind him were thousands of empty chambers.And inside each chamber,Ava.One after another.Twenty-two versions.All unconscious.Ava's stomach turned.“No…”The image changed.Ethan walked between the chambers.He stopped beside one.Version One.Then Version Two.Three.Four.Until he reached Versi

Ethan stood completely still.The voice had been unmistakable.“Ethan.”Ava.He looked toward the white sky.“Ava?”Nothing.Then the heartbeat returned.Boom.The ground trembled beneath his feet.Boom.The windows shook.Boom.Every person in the city suddenly stopped moving.They all looked upward.A woman's voice filled the air.“I can hear you.”Ethan's eyes filled with tears.“You're alive.”A pause.Then,“Not the way you remember me.”Ethan stepped outside.The entire city had changed.The buildings were still there, but something had happened to them.Their walls were transparent.People could see one another through them.There were no locked doors.No private networks.No screens.No Genesis symbols.Yet everyone seemed connected.Not controlled.Connected.A little girl pointed toward the sky.“Is that her?”Ethan looked up.A faint outline of a woman's face appeared among the clouds.Ava.But her eyes were closed.Ethan whispered,“What happened to you?”Her voice answere