Lahat ng Kabanata ng I Married My Enemy to Destroy Him: Kabanata 121 - Kabanata 130

Seraphina had spent fifteen years believing her father died a broken man.She was wrong.He hadn't broken.He had changed.And tonight, she was finally going to learn why.The car tore through the darkness.Rain struck the windshield in violent waves as Lucien drove through the city, one hand steady on the wheel and the other gripping the phone that had delivered the message.YOUR MOTHER IS WAITING.Seraphina sat beside him, staring through the window.She hadn't spoken in twenty minutes.Neither had Lucien.The silence between them wasn't uncomfortable anymore.It was heavier than that.It was the silence of two people carrying the same impossible question.Where was her mother?And why had everyone lied about her death?Seraphina looked down at the silver pendant in her palm.Her fingers traced the tiny engraving.S.V.She remembered the garden now.The fountain.The boy.Lucien at nineteen.His promise.I will come back.But another memory had returned with it.Her father.The syri

The photograph slipped from Seraphina’s fingers.For several seconds, she couldn’t breathe.Lucien stood across the room, staring at the image on the table as though it had just resurrected a ghost neither of them had been prepared to face.The photograph was old.Faded around the edges.But the woman in it was unmistakable.Seraphina.Only she wasn’t standing alone.A little girl stood beside her.And behind them, barely visible beneath the shadow of a laboratory doorway, was Lucien’s father.Seraphina’s heart slammed against her ribs.“That’s impossible,” she whispered.Lucien picked up the photograph.His face hardened.“Where did you get this?”The man who had brought it to them remained near the door.His name was Adrian Cross.Formerly one of the senior researchers assigned to Project Black Veil.Formerly.Because according to the records Lucien had uncovered, Adrian Cross had died eighteen years ago.Yet he was standing in front of them.Alive.And terrified.“You need to under

Seraphina couldn’t hear the ringing phone anymore. She could barely hear Lucien breathing beside her. All she could hear were Elena’s words. Your father is Subject 000’s creator. Her father. The man she had buried years ago. The man whose face existed only in fragments inside her childhood memories. The man she had spent years believing was dead. “No,” Seraphina whispered. Elena didn’t look away. “Yes.” “My father died.” “You were told he died.” “That isn’t the same thing.” “No.” Elena’s voice softened. “It isn’t.” Lucien stepped between them. “Enough.” His eyes remained fixed on Elena. “You’re going to explain everything.” Elena glanced at him. “You still have that habit.” “What habit?” “Trying to control a situation before you understand it.” Lucien’s jaw tightened. “I don’t need to understand you to know you’re dangerous.” Elena smiled faintly. “That’s exactly what they taught you.” Lucien’s expression changed. Seraphina no

Seraphina couldn't move.The old man stood at the entrance of the underground laboratory, his scarred face illuminated by the flickering emergency lights.He looked nothing like the scientist they had expected.But there was something familiar about him.Something in his eyes.Lucien raised his weapon.“Don't move.”The old man smiled.“You're still pointing guns before asking questions.”“Who are you?”The man slowly raised both hands.“My name is Dr. Marcus Hale.”Seraphina's heart pounded.“You said Elias Mercer died.”“He did.”“Then why were you speaking through his system?”Marcus looked toward the monitors.“Because Elias built the system.”“And you?”“I inherited it.”Lucien's eyes narrowed.“From whom?”Marcus looked at Adrian Vale.“From the man who created Black Veil.”Adrian's expression darkened.“You shouldn't be here.”Marcus laughed softly.“Neither should you.”Seraphina stepped forward.“What do you want from me?”Marcus looked directly into her eyes.“The truth.”“Y

The screens went black.Seraphina stood frozen in the darkness, Evelyn’s final words echoing inside her head.Subject 001 and Subject 000: Reunification required.Then something crashed in the corridor.Lucien immediately pulled Seraphina behind him.“Stay close.”A second crash followed.Marcus grabbed a flashlight from the emergency cabinet.“That’s not part of the security system.”Lucien raised his weapon.“Then what is it?”Marcus looked toward the corridor.“I don’t know.”A metallic scraping sound came from somewhere beyond the laboratory door.Seraphina’s heart pounded.“Where did Evelyn go?”Marcus shook his head.“She disappeared.”Lucien glanced at him.“No one disappears from a locked laboratory.”Marcus’s face tightened.“She knows this place better than anyone.”The lights flickered back on.Evelyn was gone.But something else had changed.One of the laboratory walls had opened.Behind it was a narrow passage.Seraphina stared at the opening.“That wasn’t there before.”