Lahat ng Kabanata ng I Married My Enemy to Destroy Him: Kabanata 221 - Kabanata 230

The gunfire outside grew louder.My mother was somewhere beyond those walls.Alive.And the people hunting us were coming for her.“Where is she?” I demanded.Daniel looked at me.“I don’t know.”“Then how did you know they were coming for her?”“Because she’s the witness.”The word sent a chill through me.“What witness?”Daniel pointed at the memory recorder.“The original witness to the agreement.”Lucien stepped closer.“My mother?”Daniel shook his head.“No.”He looked at me.“Yours.”My heart stopped.“My mother?”“Yes.”Another explosion shook the building.Dust fell from the ceiling.Nadia shouted, “They’re through the first security door!”Lucien grabbed my hand.“We move now.”“No.”I pulled away.“We’re not leaving without my mother.”“Seraphina—”“I’ve spent my entire life believing she abandoned me.”My voice broke.“If she’s alive, I’m finding her.”Daniel nodded.“Then there’s something you need to know.”“What?”“She came here.”I stared at him.“When?”“Before we arr

The name on the screen refused to disappear.BIOLOGICAL FATHER OF LUCIEN VIRELLI: GABRIEL VALE.Nobody spoke.I couldn’t.My grandfather.Gabriel.The man who had hunted me.The man who had erased my memories.The man who had destroyed Lucien’s life.The system was saying he was Lucien’s biological father.It couldn’t be true.“It’s a lie,” Lucien said.His voice was quiet.Almost frighteningly calm.Evelyn stared at the screen.“Sovereign doesn’t make mistakes with biological identification.”“Then the system is wrong,” Lucien snapped.Marcus stepped forward.“It isn’t.”Lucien turned toward him.“You knew.”Marcus’s face tightened.“I suspected.”“You suspected that Gabriel was my father?”“I discovered it years ago.”Lucien looked as if he’d been struck.“And you said nothing.”“I was trying to protect you.”“Everyone uses that excuse.”His voice broke.“Everyone protects me by lying to me.”I reached for his hand.This time, he took mine.His fingers were cold.I looked at my moth

The moment Gabriel said Lucien would die, something inside me went completely still.Not calm.Not peace.Something colder.Something older.The lights inside the chamber flickered as the Sovereign system continued displaying my bloodline across the massive screen.SERAEL — 100%VALE — 100%VIRELLI — 100%CROSS — 100%FULL BLOODLINE RESTORED.And beneath it:SUCCESSOR: SERAPHINA SERAEL VALE.I stared at the words.Then I looked at Gabriel.My uncle.The man who had destroyed generations of lives while pretending he was protecting something greater.“You want me to become you,” I said.Gabriel’s expression barely changed.“I want you to become what you were born to be.”“You mean your replacement.”“My successor.”“And if I refuse?”His eyes moved toward the glass chamber behind him.Lucien stood inside.His hands were restrained behind him. Blood stained the side of his shirt, but his eyes remained fixed on me.Even from across the room, I could see what he was trying to tell me.Don’

The room went silent.Then the lights died.For three seconds, there was nothing.No machines.No voices.Not even the sound of breathing.Then—THUD.A deep vibration rolled through the floor.The Sovereign system awakened.Red light flooded the chamber, illuminating every face.Gabriel stared at me.“You shouldn’t have done that.”I looked at him through the darkness.“You were afraid I would.”“Yes.”“Why?”His eyes dropped to my hand.“Because now it knows you.”A metallic sound came from Lucien’s chamber.His restraints released.He fell forward, catching himself against the glass.“Lucien!”He looked up.“I’m fine.”But his face told me otherwise.Something had changed.His eyes were darker.Almost silver beneath the red lights.The system spoke.PRIMARY CARRIER CONNECTED.FINAL LOCK CONNECTED.ORIGINAL SEQUENCE RESTORED.Then another message appeared.SOVEREIGN MEMORY ACCESS: UNLOCKED.I felt something rush through me.Images.Thousands of them.People I didn’t know.Places I h

The eyes in the darkness opened wider.I couldn’t move.They weren’t human eyes.They weren’t even eyes in the ordinary sense.They were memories given a shape.Thousands of faces flickered inside them.Children.Scientists.Soldiers.Mothers.Men and women whose names had been erased from history.All of them looking at me.Then a voice filled the darkness.Not Gabriel’s.Not my mother’s.Not Lucien’s.A voice that sounded like every voice I had ever heard at once.“You have returned.”My heart pounded.“Who are you?”The darkness shifted.A woman stepped forward.The first Serael.My ancestor.She looked at me with sorrow in her eyes.“I am not Sovereign.”I frowned.“Then what is behind you?”She turned.The enormous presence moved closer.“A memory.”I stared at her.“A memory?”She nodded.“Sovereign was never a machine.”My breath caught.“Then what is it?”She looked at me.“A vessel.”“For what?”“For humanity’s memory.”The darkness suddenly exploded with images.I saw ancien