THE BILLIONAIRE’S HIDDEN HEARTAuthor: Esty’sCHAPTER 48 — PART 9THE ONE BEFORE THE SOURCEThe laughter rolled through the Zero World.It was not loud.It did not need to be.It moved through the empty space like a vibration inside reality itself, touching every broken world, every abandoned possibility, every memory that had ever been rejected.Hope stood completely still.Her fingers were still wrapped around Adrian’s hand.She could feel his warmth.His heartbeat.His presence.And somehow, that simple human sensation grounded her more than all the cosmic power surrounding them.Behind her stood Lyra, Amara, Evelyn, Serena, Lucian, Lucius, Noah, Azrael, and the First Mother.Everyone stared upward.The enormous shadow remained beyond the transformed Zero World.Its eyes were no longer simply eyes.They looked like two collapsing universes.Stars disappeared inside them.Worlds seemed to be born and die within the darkness of its gaze.The First Mother took one slow step backward.
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