Lahat ng Kabanata ng I Married My Enemy to Destroy Him: Kabanata 291 - Kabanata 300

The ground opened beneath us.Not with an explosion.Not with a warning.It simply split apart, revealing a staircase that disappeared into darkness.Everyone stared.Nobody moved.Then Zero-D reached toward it.Her tiny fingers opened and closed.“Home,” she whispered.Seraphina’s heart tightened.“No.”She held her daughter closer.“That isn’t your home.”Alina looked at her.“Maybe it is.”Seraphina turned sharply.“What?”Alina’s face was filled with an exhaustion that seemed older than her years.“For twenty-seven years, we ran from that place.”Richard stepped toward her.“You said it was destroyed.”“I said Black Veil was destroyed.”Alina looked down into the opening.“I never said the first chamber was.”Lucien moved beside Seraphina.“Then we end it.”Alina shook her head.“You can’t destroy it.”Seraphina frowned.“Why not?”“Because it isn’t a machine.”She pointed toward the darkness.“It is a record.”Victor’s expression hardened.“Of what?”“Everything.”Alina’s voice t

The stranger’s words should have frightened me. Instead, I felt strangely calm. “The people who created the first family know exactly where you are.” For years, those words would have sent me running toward revenge. Not anymore. I looked at Lucien. He was holding my hand. Not controlling it. Not pulling me behind him. Just holding it. That difference meant everything. The stranger watched us carefully. “You should leave.” I almost laughed. “Everyone keeps telling me where I should go.” His expression tightened. “I’m trying to save you.” “I know.” “Then listen.” “No.” He blinked. Lucien’s mouth curved slightly. I stepped forward. “I’ve spent too much of my life listening to people who claimed they were protecting me.” Richard lowered his eyes. Alina said nothing. Even Victor remained silent. I looked at the stranger. “You said your name is Adrian.” “Yes.” “Then tell me the truth.” “I have.” “No.” I shook my head. “You’ve told me what you want me to fear

The woman standing outside our house looked like a ghost.Not because she was pale.Not because the wind moved through her dark hair like something out of a nightmare.But because I had seen her face before.In photographs.In old files.In memories Lucien had once told me about.And according to everyone who had known the truth—Isabella Voss was dead.Yet she stood beneath the moonlight, alive.Beside her stood Elena.Another woman who was supposed to have disappeared years ago.Neither of them looked happy to see us.Lucien stepped in front of me.His body reacted before his mind could.Protective.Automatic.The old mark on his palm glowed faintly.Isabella noticed.Her eyes narrowed.“So,” she whispered. “It really survived.”Lucien’s voice was cold.“What survived?”She looked at his hand.“The promise.”I tightened my grip on Zero-D.Our daughter slept peacefully inside the house, completely unaware that two women from her father’s buried past had just returned.Lucien didn’t m

For the first time in my life, I woke up without wanting someone dead.The realization was so strange that I lay still for several seconds, staring at the ceiling.No target.No conspiracy.No hidden chamber waiting beneath the floor.No enemy I needed to destroy before they destroyed me.Just sunlight.The sound of waves outside the window.And the soft breathing of my daughter beside me.Zero-D was sleeping peacefully in her crib.I smiled.A year ago, I would have laughed at the idea that peace could ever feel frightening.Now I understood why.When revenge became your reason for surviving, what happened after you won?Who were you when there was nobody left to hate?I turned toward the empty side of the bed.Lucien wasn’t there.For one terrible second, panic rushed through me.Then I heard laughter downstairs.His laughter.I smiled again.I got out of bed and walked downstairs.The sight waiting for me nearly broke my heart.Lucien stood in the kitchen wearing a plain white shir

The voice disappeared with the stars.For several seconds, none of us moved.The ocean rolled quietly beyond the cliffs, completely unaware that my entire world had just changed.Lucien stood beside me, his hand still wrapped around mine.“Seraphina.”I looked at him.“I heard it too.”He nodded.The fear in his eyes wasn’t for himself.It was for me.For our children.For the family we had fought so hard to build.Then Zero-D reached toward the darkness.Her tiny fingers opened.The strange symbol on her forehead glowed once.And everything became silent.No voice.No system.No warning.Nothing.I expected another enemy.Another secret.Another door waiting to be opened.Instead, I heard footsteps behind us.Richard.Alina.Noah.Victor.Nadia.Caleb.Isabella.Elena.Everyone had come outside.Richard looked at me.“What happened?”I shook my head.“I don’t know.”For the first time in years, that answer didn’t terrify me.Because I had finally learned something.Not every mystery