Todos os capítulos de FOREVER CELESTE: From wife to aunt.: Capítulo 71 - Capítulo 80

Celeste stopped breathing.For several seconds, nobody moved.Maria Justin stood beneath the house as though she had been waiting for this exact moment for decades.She was older than the woman in the recordings.But not old.Her silver-streaked hair was pulled neatly behind her shoulders. Her face carried the unmistakable lines of age, yet something about her eyes remained strangely young.Those eyes looked exactly like Elena's.And Elena looked exactly like Celeste.A family resemblance stretched across generations.Except Maria looked at Celeste as though she were looking at a ghost.Or perhaps at herself.“Grandmother.”The word barely left Celeste's mouth.Maria's expression changed.Pain.Then something softer.“You grew up.”Elena stepped forward.“You're alive.”Maria looked at her daughter.“I am.”“You let me believe you were dead.”“I needed you to.”Elena's face tightened.“You had decades to find me.”“And every year I stayed hidden was another year you remained alive.”“

Celeste stared at the page.She read the name again.VANESSA HALE.Her fingers tightened around the edge of the ledger.“No.”Lucien took the file from her carefully.He scanned the page.His expression changed.“Celeste…”“She signed it.”“I see that.”“She gave Adrian access.”Lucien looked at the date.“Three years ago.”Celeste's mind raced.Three years.The marriage.The Blackwood house.The research.The strange moments when Adrian had disappeared for hours.The times he had insisted she was imagining things.The private laboratories she had never been allowed to enter.The locked rooms.The sudden interest in her medical records.The way Vanessa had always watched her.Celeste looked up.“She knew.”Lucien's voice was quiet.“She knew something.”“No.”Celeste shook her head.“She knew about Eve.”The room fell silent.Vanessa.The woman who had been Adrian's secretary.The woman who had slept with him.The woman who had later claimed Richard manipulated her.The woman who had

Michael screamed again.The sound travelled through the mountain.Celeste ran faster.“Michael!”Jonathan caught her arm.“Wait.”She tore herself free.“They're hurting him!”“And if you run into that room without understanding what you're facing, they'll use you too.”Lucien stepped between them.“Then explain while we move.”Jonathan nodded.“The chamber below us isn't an ordinary laboratory.”The corridor lights flashed red.“It's the original Succession chamber.”Celeste frowned.“Succession was supposed to be a Blackwood program.”“It became one.”Jonathan kept walking.“But Maria created the biological theory long before Richard turned it into a weapon.”“Why?”“Because Maria's own regenerative sequence was unstable.”Celeste stared at him.“You said she was dying.”“She was.”Jonathan's voice became quieter.“Her body could repair itself, but her nervous system couldn't keep up. Every regeneration took something from her.”“Memory.”“Yes.”Celeste's stomach tightened.“She was

The hidden door opened with a sound that seemed far too quiet for what was happening above it.A metallic hiss.A click.Then darkness.Celeste stood at the entrance to the underground passage, staring into it.Behind her, the mountain was under siege.Ahead of her, something called EVE-03 was approaching.And somehow, she knew the two things were connected.Lucien came to stand beside her.“You're not going down there alone.”Celeste glanced at him.“I wasn't planning to.”His mouth curved slightly.“Good.”Arthur approached with a tactical team.“We can secure the passage.”“No.”Arthur stopped.Celeste pointed toward the darkness.“If Eve-03 is what they say it is, sending armed men down there may trigger whatever security system is protecting it.”Jonathan nodded.“She’s right.”Arthur frowned.“So what do we do?”Celeste looked at the monitor.EVE-03 APPROACHING.“We let it come.”Lucien looked at her.“You're going to wait?”“No.”Celeste stepped into the passage.“I'm going to

00:59The number burned red across every screen.Celeste couldn't look away from the man standing in the doorway.Her father.The same face she had known since childhood.The same voice that had comforted her when she was sick.The same hands that had held hers when she was afraid of thunderstorms.But something inside her was screaming.Not him.Not completely.Jonathan Justin smiled.“Celeste.”She took one step backward.Lucien immediately moved beside her.Jonathan noticed.“You still protect her.”Lucien's jaw tightened.“I always will.”Jonathan smiled faintly.“I know.”Celeste looked at him.“You said you came back for me.”“Yes.”“From where?”“Somewhere your mother couldn't reach.”Celeste's heart tightened.“My mother?”Jonathan looked toward the communication screen.Maria was still connected.Elena's face had appeared beside hers.Both women looked terrified.Celeste noticed.“Mom?”Elena stared at Jonathan.Her lips trembled.“That's not your father.”Celeste turned shar