Connection Terminated Novels & Stories

I said hopefully and almost stood up from my seat. The answer I was waiting for didn't come. Instead, Andreas disconnected the call between us. The buzzing of the connected calls was over and gone. "Andreas!" I called out his name, pulling my phone away from my ear and checking the screen, which showed the call between us had indeed ended.

Suddenly, the link goes blank and just disconnects entirely. "No... No... That didn't just happen," I say aloud in disbelief. The meeting comes to a sudden halt, and Caleb, along with everyone else in the room, turns their attention towards me. "What's going on, man?" Caleb inquires. "The link. My connection with Blossom. It just stopped. Just like..." I can't bring myself to utter Eliza's name and invite that kind of energy into this situation. "I'm sure she's fine, perhaps she just fell asleep or something," Caleb offers optimistically.

“Yes.” The line went dead.

But before Brandon could respond, the connection cut off abruptly. Trent's eyes snapped open. It was clear to him that something was wrong.

Then again, slower this time. Her hand froze around the phone. “We regret to inform you… the partnership between King Holdings and Voss Oil & Gas will be terminated effective immediately.” The words sat heavy on the screen, black and neat and final. Clara’s breath hitched. Her chest tightened. The room seemed smaller now, the air heavier. She blinked once, twice, then lowered the phone, staring at the floor like it might explain something. Her lips parted, a small tremor slipping out with her breath.

The power within me was instantly drawn out, silver light spreading along my arm. "In the name of the Moon Goddess, I, Elena Morse, formally request severance of the mate bond with Alpha Damon Aldridge." Runes flickered across the stone. The invisible bond connecting us began to tremble and twist. "Elena, stop!" Damon's voice came from behind me, laced with a panic I'd never heard before. I didn't turn around. "It's too late." The instant the mate bond shattered, searing pain shot through my chest, but it was immediately followed by an unprecedented sense of relief. That suffocating feeling of being bound vanished completely.

I had doubted things before, but since I already assumed this was an otome game, every red flag got shoved to the back of my mind. That entire drunken haze vanished in an instant. “What do I do now?” I whispered to the system in my head. “Given the… unusual circumstances, the system will now perform an emergency shutdown. Visual feed has been censored. Goodbye, host. See you tomorrow. Hopefully, you survive until then.” Before I could even scream, the system cut the connection.

Given the thread a form. I looked at the function's translation running through the clearing. The first active reconnection at designed capacity. The first ceremony supported by that reconnection. The first primary circuit site visited post activation. All of it working as designed. The ordinary work.

BEEP. "The clearing house in Switzerland," Kemi said, her voice dropping into a hard, defensive whisper as she scrambled back to her feet. She looked around for her melted rifle, her jaw tightening when she found nothing but scrap. "The main server didn't format, Zora. It just lost connection to the Spire. It’s initializing a remote diagnostic sweep." The terminal’s screen flickered to life, displaying a single line of text in cold, white text: UNALLOCATED ASSET DETECTED. INITIALIZING EXCLUSIONARY ISOLATION PROTOCOL.

came the reply. The line went dead.