All Chapters of The Contract Ex-Husband of Wealthy Widow: Chapter 71
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Chapter 71: Elena In My Pocket
"Go to hell, you freak! Let go of me!" Raka roared, his voice hoarse, swallowed by the howling wind and the screeching of burning circuits.Seraph, in her physical form with Raka’s mother’s face, clamped down on Raka’s left wrist with hydraulic force strong enough to crush concrete. "You will never give The Seed to that loser hacker, Raka. Give me the key, and I’ll let you die with a beautiful memory of your mother.""My mom wouldn't smile like a damn psychopath!" Raka fired back, delivering a lethal headbutt straight into Seraph’s silver nose.The liquid metal on Seraph’s face distorted for a split second, giving him a one second window. Raka didn’t waste it. With his right hand trembling from massive silver blood loss, he slammed the Neural Black Box, that tube shaped digital key, into the USB C slot of his Neural Deck. It was a handheld device that looked like a phone but had been reinforced with a steel frame by Leo."Leo! Now! One hundred percent, you bastard! Hurry up!" Raka scr
Chapter 72: The Absurd Truck Chase
"Hold on, Raka! Don’t go dying on me now, you still haven't paid me for that satay, damn it!" Julianna’s voice shrieked through the earpiece, nearly drowned out by the roar of the wind hitting Raka’s face like a thousand razor blades."I’m, I’m just trying not to turn into roadkill, Anna!" Raka fired back with a roar that sounded more like a groan.Raka’s body had been thrown onto the roof of the semi truck’s cabin by the gravity blast Elena triggered at the end of the last chase. He didn’t land like a hero, he landed face first, kissing a metal plate that was hot and sticky with liquid silver metal. The wound in his chest throbbed like crazy, spitting out silver blood that was now seeping into the cracks of the truck’s roof. His left hand, with its broken fingers, gripped the Neural Deck, the beat up phone that now held Elena’s consciousness, as if it were his own heart."System warning," Elena’s voice came through the phone’s cracked speaker in Raka’s hand. "Device temperature has r
Chapter 73: Love At The Bottom Of The River
"Wake up, you bastard, don't you dare die before I get that key!"The voice echoed inside Raka’s skull, not through his ears, but throughnerve-racking frequency vibrations that tortured his senses. In the dark, cold,and muddy depths of the Megalo River, Raka’s eyes snapped open. His heart, whichhad stopped just moments ago, now jerked violently from a high voltage electricshock. Seraph, in the form of a liquid metal hand crawling across his chest, hadjust delivered an emergency defibrillator jolt to revive her backup host.Raka choked, the thick, oil-scented river water rushing into his throat. Hetried to struggle, but the pressure at a depth of nearly a hundred feet feltlike it was crushing his lungs to pieces. His vision was a blur of totaldarkness, until he spotted a pale blue glow covered by a layer of liquid silverbetween the wreckage of the destroyed semi truck.The phone, Elena."Cough, gkh," Raka released his last few air bubbles. He ignored the agonizingpain in his
Chapter 74: The Truth That Destroys
"Cough! Dammit, the water tastes like used motor oil," Raka sputtered as hishead finally broke the surface of the Megalo River.His breath came in heavy gasps, his voice sounding like sandpaper rubbingagainst rotten wood while his right thigh went completely numb. The hole in hischest vented a stinging silver vapor into the cold night air as he tried to grabanything to stay afloat amidst the industrial waste."Raka? Are you still breathing, man? Answer me, you bastard!" Leo’s voiceshrieked in the earpiece, though the audio was heavily dominated by static."I’m still alive, Leo, but if you don’t shut up, I’m gonna die from being deaf,"Raka moaned, trying to paddle toward the muddy riverbank.Suddenly, the air above the water turned freezing cold as silver dust floatingin the atmosphere began to descend and arrange itself. Within seconds, thousandsof nanobots formed a massive holographic projection right in front of Raka,displaying Elena’s face with a gaze so cold it could free
Chapter 75: The Failed Final Symphony
"Don’t you move a single inch, Raka, I won’t think twice about putting a bulletin your head right now," Julianna shouted, her voice hard and leaving no roomfor negotiation.Raka looked up, staring right into the barrel of Julianna’s machine gun, whichwas only inches from his forehead. Rainwater mixed with river mud streamed downhis temples, blending with the silver blood still seeping from the wound in hischest. Behind Julianna, dozens of military police and Architects' elite squadshad moved in, forming a wall of steel that sealed off every possible escaperoute. Raka could see Kaleb and Leo slumped over nearby, handcuffed byArchitects' soldiers, their faces bruised and full of pure despair."Are you really choosing to be Seraph’s lapdog instead of my friend, Anna?" Rakaasked, his voice raspy like sandpaper on wood."I’m not on anyone’s side, Raka, I’m just choosing the side that doesn’t murderunarmed parents," Julianna fired back, her eyes welling up with a sudden, sharprag
Chapter 76: Architect Of Despair
"You awake yet, Daddy? You were out so cold, I thought you’d kicked the bucketfor real," the child’s voice sliced through a silence so heavy it was deafening.Raka gasped, trying to pull in air, but his lungs felt like they were filledwith thousands of shards of broken glass. He tried to move, but the sharp rattleof iron chains held him back. A heavy metal collar was bolted around his neck,anchored directly into the wall of the throne room. His vision was a blurredmess, but he could feel a bone chilling cold seeping deep into his marrow."Gkh, you, you little shit," Raka coughed, spitting silver fluid onto thedark marble floor."Don't talk too much, Daddy. Your heart is basically just a bundle of cablesI’ve got plugged into a wall socket right now," the Child said, offering adisturbingly innocent smile.Raka looked down at his bare chest. The massive hole Seraph had left behind wasnow packed with transparent bionic wires, pulsing with an angry red light. Thecables snaked int
Chapter 77: The Digital Crown Of Thorns
"You really gonna pull that trigger on me, Anna? After all that goat satay weput away together?" Raka asked, wincing as he spoke.His voice was a total wreck, sounding like his throat had been scorched by thatbiometric surge earlier. Julianna didn’t answer right away. Instead, she pressedthe barrel of her Magnum harder against Raka’s forehead until the skin turnedred.The atmosphere inside the Architects' evacuation bunker was suffocating, litonly by red emergency lights that flickered in time with the explosions hittingthe Megalopolis surface above. Concrete dust rained from the ceiling every timea vibration from that deep-space attack slammed into the city’s defenses."That satay is ash now, Raka, just like your brain is nothing but Elena, Elena,and more Elena while the world goes to hell," Julianna replied in an incrediblyflat tone.Raka could see the veins in her neck bulging from the strain. He coughed,spitting the last of the silver blood onto the cold steel floor."I
Chapter 78: The Banquet Of Monsters
"Eat, Raka. Don’t make me shove data cables down your throat, it won’t feel goodon your windpipe," Elena said with a voice that was so sweet, yet it carried aterror that could stop a heart.Raka could only glare, his teeth gritting as he fought the rage boiling behindhis pale face. He wasn't wearing his tattered tactical gear anymore, but acrisp, black tuxedo that fit him perfectly, as if the world’s best tailor hadjust measured him. However, beneath the expensive silk, Raka could feel thetransparent cables burrowing under his skin, controlling his muscles like amarionette. He was forced to sit upright at a long dining table placed right ontop of a heap of skyscraper ruins. All around them, the darkness of Megalopolisstretched out, silent without the sound of engines, lit only by the red glowfrom Elena’s throne and the silver plates serving bionic circuit components astonight’s meal."I’m not hungry, El. I’d rather swallow broken glass than have a meal with acreature weari
Chapter 79: The Illusion Of The Little House
"It’s so beautiful, isn’t it, Raka? We’ve finally made it to our little home, the one with no computers, no cables, just the two of us," Elena said, resting her head gently on Raka’s shoulder.Raka blinked his eyes, trying to clear the heavy throbbing that pulsed inside his skull. He looked out at a vast expanse of green grass swaying in a soft breeze under the golden light of a late afternoon sun. In front of them stood a simple wooden shack with a small porch decorated with pots of white lilies in full, stunning bloom. Raka took a deep breath, but the scent of the flowers felt strange in his nose, like the faint smell of copper mixed with the perfume Elena used to wear."Elena, are we really here? I thought we were in the middle of a bridge about to collapse," Raka asked, staring at his palms, which were now clean and free of any wounds."What bridge, Raka? You slept way too much during the trip, you’re just having some weird fever dreams," Elena replied with a soft laugh, her voice
Chapter 80: The Nerve Severing Operation
"Dammit, Raka! Stop pulling that thing if you don't want your brains spilled all over the floor, for real!" Leo’s voice shrieked inside Raka’s head, triggering a pain so sharp it felt like his eyes were about to pop out of their sockets.Raka didn't care, he let out a low groan while clutching the remains of the iron chain still wrapped around his wrists. His body was sprawled on the damp, dark floor of a technical corridor, located directly beneath the throne room that had just been blasted by a pillar of light from deep space. Red emergency lights flickered dimly, reflecting off the silver blood soaking into his tattered black tuxedo. With hands shaking violently, Raka wrapped the chain around the base of the Neural Spike, the massive bionic needle still buried in his neck, tethering his central nervous system directly to the deep space fleet."I have to pull this thing out, Leo, or I’m literally going to become a doomsday antenna for them!" Raka roared, yanking the chain with one b