“You fucking bastard. What the hell are you doing here?” She snapped at Devin.
“Did you come here to beg after causing a scene earlier? How dare you raise your filthy hands on my daughter and her deserving man?” She yelled at Devin. “Come on, you mean those two bitches?!” Devin calmly stated but was quickly interrupted by Sera. “You fucking clingy pest! Amanda must've been out of her goddamn mind to keep your ass around for so long. You should be on your knees thanking us for not letting you croak from hunger on the street. ” She walked closer to him, her anger palpable. “What the hell makes you think you can come here and harass us?” Sera glared at Devin furiously. If he dared to take even a single step forward, she'd make sure he'd regret it big time! “Madam, watch your words! It was Amanda who cheated on me! I'm the goddamn victim here!” Devin was at a loss for words. “Bullshit! Why the fuck can't she cheat?“ “You were just a pest in her life! A stigma to this family!“ ”is she just gonna be stuck with a piece of crap like you and live like a widow?!” Sera looked Devin up and down with visceral revulsion as if he were a walking contamination zone. “She's finally found a rich man to take care of her, and you want to pester her again?” She added and crossed her arms. Devin sighed while he shrugged his shoulders. “I came for what's mine. I'm not leaving until I find it,” Devin stated firmly. The bald bodyguard had checked the trash bin before they knocked but the necklace wasn't inside anymore. Someone had taken it. “Get the fuck out of my house!” Sera screamed and pushed Devin as hard as she could. Her knees gave way and she almost fell. “There's nothing for you in this house! Everything here belongs to Amanda.” “You're lucky I'm not pressing charges against you.” she continued. “You delayed my daughter for so long and we didn't even ask for compensation for wasting her time,” Sera yelled at Devin. Devin gritted his teeth as the angle of his face became more prominent. He had never expected that her whole family would be so shameless. “I bought this fucking house! I paid your family's fucking bills.” “And your daughter cheated me!” “It should be you motherfuckers, pay me back!!” Sera gasped in shock. She never thought that Devin could raise his voice at her. And the more she looked at him, the more she observed that he had changed. Something was different about him. Sera just couldn't put her finger on it. “You're nothing but a spineless sack of failure! What makes you think you're worthy to even breathe the same air as my daughter?” she pointed her finger at him. “Let me make this clear – you don't deserve to lick the dirt from Luther's boots! Throwing your worthless ass to the curb was the smartest damn decision Amanda's ever made!” Sera rolled her eyes. “Now, get out of here or I will call the police to kick you out!” Sera yelled again and attempted to shut the door in Devin's face. Devin scoffed contemptuously, done wasting breath on Sera's shameless trash. He shoulder-checked the door, steel-toed boots slamming toward the inner sanctum like a human battering ram. But then, when she moved her neck, Devin's eyes caught a glimpse of his mother's necklace. His eyes flared and he suddenly pushed the door back while she attempted to shut it. Sera gasped. “Give me that necklace. It's mine,” Devin said in a growl. “You must be insane. You're fucking crazy over money. This is my necklace,” she argued. The craftsmanship of this precious artifact alone screamed obscene wealth. No way in hell this belonged to Devin, the penniless cockroach. Even if by some cosmic mistake it did, anything found under her daughter's roof became blood-entitled property. Finders keepers, and she'd burn cities to keep it. “I won't ask the second time,” Devin told her. He took it a step further and stared at her with a sinister look in his eyes as if he was going to snap her neck and grab the necklace in the next second. Sera shuddered, she started waving her hands around and shouting for help. “Help me! Somebody help! He's trying to rob me!” She screamed out from the top of her voice. Footsteps approached from within the house and Amanda's younger brother Jim appeared. Jim was as useless as they came. He had no job, no direction in life, and constantly jumped from one party, drugs, and crime to another. He was involved in three break-ins, and Amanda had begged Devin to bail him out every time with his money. Devin had to do it because he loved her, but now he doesn’t. “What's happening here? Why is this scum here?” He called out to his mother and wrapped his arms around her. “That fucker is trying to steal my necklace!” Sera blurted out. Devin ignored Jim and looked straight at Sera. "I'll say this one last time. Give me back my mom's necklace. I don't want to make a big deal out of this." Devin repeated the words from earlier, but his tone was already quite cold. "Hey, how dare you talk to my mom like that!" Jim pointed his finger right at Devin's nose and started yelling, "Do you know who you are? You're nothing but a fucking dog at my sister's feet!" Devin frowned, and his eyes finally turned completely gloomy. Is this the quality of this family? Seeing that Devin didn't say anything, Jim thought the latter was scared and became even more brazen in his taunting. “Why the hell don't you get down on your knees and bark like a fucking dog?” Jim scoffed. “Maybe if I'm in a good mood, I'll fucking give you some money.” Devin still didn't say a word. But this time. He directly raised his hand and slapped Jim hard across the face as he was yelling.Latest Chapter
Chapter 310
310. The digital world buckled like a paper house in a hurricane. Amanda and Devin flailed around as Devin tried to stabilise himself. Amanda clung to Devin's arm, her fingers digging in so hard they left white marks on his skin. Her entire body felt strange, and she hated that she was even in such a place in the first place. Amanda's eyes darted around the crumbling space. Gloria pulled the plug out of Amanda’s hold. "Do you think it's that easy, boy? You really think that you can just walk away?" "Shut your goddamn mouth!" Amanda yelled, yanking harder on Devin. His body jerked, veins still glowing like overheated wires. "We've had enough of your bullshit games!” Devin groaned, his knees buckling. “Amanda, it's like she's got hooks in my skull. We can't... we can't hold on." "Like hell we can't!" Amanda snapped, her free hand clawing at the interface node. It floated there, mocking them, a glowing orb was flashing with red warnings. She slammed her neural plug deeper
Chapter 309
309. The monitors were going haywire and Amanda could feel the vibrations of the computer in her brain. Wrong! Wrong! Wrong! Everything was just wrong, but that Devin was too stubborn to listen to anybody. Amanda got up from her chair, coffee spilling over her lap. "Shit! No, no, no!" She slammed her hand on the console, eyes wide as the readings on Devin's vitals dropped fast, heart rate crashing, neural activity spiking off the charts. The man had done it now! What was she supposed to do in such a situation? What was happening to him in there? "Devin, you fucking idiot!" She yelled, her voice echoing in the small lab. She pressed the comms link, though she knew damn well he couldn't hear her anymore. "You just couldn't wait, could you? You never fucking can! You are a burden on my neck, Devin! Fuck you!" The medallion was floated at the centre of the room now, glowing erratically as pulses of light came out of it like an arrhythmic heartbeat. Amanda had had his body
Chapter 308
308. Devin glared at her. He clenched his fists and try to clear his head. “No, I can’t be speaking to you right. Ow. You’re not real.” Gloria smiled. “Define real. You’re not standing in your own body right now either, are you? You uploaded yourself here, does that mean that you are not real? Does that mean that this is real? You brought yourself here willfully.” He swallowed hard and looked around. The walls started changing and displaying images of his past, flashing them for half a second at a time. It showed him at meetings with investors, his time with Petra… and then, the blood. The massacre at the tower. Everything that could mess with him. “Get the fuck out of my head!” He snarled. “Your head?” Gloria asked. “Oh, Devin. You stepped into mine. You should get out of my head, I'm not the one intruding.” He took a step closer. “Where is she?” She smiled wickedly at him. “Where is whom? Petra?” “Don’t play dumb with me, you know where she is. Stop act
Chapter 307
307.Devin took his hands off the panel, looking around. "Well, that was anticlimactic." He said. "Devin, you are not allowed to touch that thing before I'm done calibrating it. I'll bash your head in with the keyboard if you do that again." He looked at her as the power returned. "And ow long will that take?" Amanda looked away. She didn't know. "It's the only way to find Petra right now. Stop trying to save me, I can make my own decisions!" Devin exclaimed angrily. Amanda groaned, rubbing her face. "You keep saying that all the time, but your actions in times like this prove otherwise. Now, listen to me. That Echo is not stable yet. If you link your mind to it right now, there's a good chance that it could fry your neurons or worse, plug you straight into Gloria's network. From what I have seen, it is very powerful." "Good." He said coldly. "Then maybe I'll find her faster." Amanda got up and stood toe-to-toe with him, glaring. "Are you hearing yourself? Yo
Chapter 306
306. Devin hadn’t slept, not a wink or a quick shut eye. He sat at the edge of the cold metal bunk staring at the medallion glowing faintly on the table. His fingers twitched every few seconds like he was resisting the urge to grab it again, he wanted to feel it, the slow pulse that felt like a heartbeat to him. Amanda came later in the morning, her face was pale and her hair even messier than before. She looked like hell but so did he and he didn't seem to mind. “Good Morning.” She muttered, carrying two mugs of black coffee in her hands. “If we can even call it that.” Devin didn’t look up. “Do you have something for me?” Amanda set the mugs down and sighed. “You’re welcome, asshole.” He realised that he upset her and he rubbed his face. “Right. Sorry.” “You should be.” She took a sip of her own coffee and sat across from him. “You look like someone dragged you through stones.” “Feels like it too.” He muttered. He was exhausted and his voice sounded hoarse.
Chapter 305
305. Amanda sat hunched over the desk with her hair tied up in a messy knot, and her eyes bloodshot from hours of staring at holographic code. The room around her was dark except for the dole glow of the medallion hovering in front of her. It was pulsing slowly, just like Devin had said, like a heartbeat, so slow and in rhythm. "Come on, you stressful piece of worm!" She muttered, tapping on the keyboard. "Show me what the hell you're hiding." Amanda had been working on decoding it for three straight days, fuelled by caffeine, anger, and perhaps obsession. Devin's obsession had bled into her, and now she was just this... creature. She ran her fingers through her hair, sighed, and then squinted at the screen. The code was beautiful but terrifying too. It was fluid, adaptive, almost alive. Every time she broke through one firewall, the medallion seemed to rewrite itself, sealing new layers of encryption in seconds. "This isn't just code." She murmured, shaking her head. "This i
You may also like

The Billionaire Husband in Disguise
Banin SN186.9K views
The Billionaire Heir
Teddy130.8K views
Incredible Oliver Storm
Dragon Sly102.1K views
I AM NOT A POOR SON-IN-LAW
Calendula582.0K views
The Secret Billionaire's Return
Veekeey66 views
The Special Agent: Andrew Pierre
The_Juice120 views
HEIR TO POWER
Hop-Grip429 views
THE SAVIOR GOD OF WAR RETURNS
Lucky B. Excelsior17.8K views