2025-03-20 00:42:59"No way, you still haven't gotten over Amanda? Are you going to go in front of her and cry and beg for forgiveness?" Luther laughed and sized up Devin with a playful look in his eyes.
"Actually, it's not impossible for you to see her if you really insist." "Enough!" Devin interrupted him. "I'm not here for her. I'm going home!" Luther burst out laughing as if he had just heard the funniest joke in the world. "You're still being stubborn, aren't you?" "Since I'm in a good mood today, I'll let you meet Amanda." He ordered the bodyguards to take Devin inside. Devin sighed. "You know what? If I go in, your wedding is going to be ruined for sure." "Really? What, are you going to mooch off the food and starve everyone else to death?" "Take him in!" Luther lost all his patience and commanded the bodyguards viciously to drag Devin in. But when they were met with Devin's cold stare, they somehow didn't dare to lay a hand on him. "You asked for this," Devin sneered, and then strode in. "What's with all the posturing?" Luther scoffed. Then his eyes darkened. "Keep an eye on him. If he dares to cause trouble, make sure he pays dearly for it!" The auditorium was ablaze with light. Devin spotted from afar a crowd huddled around a massive crystal sculpture. Clearly, it was Luther and Amanda carved on it. "Goodness, this thing's gotta be worth a mint.” “Luther's really got connections. Even the big shot who owns the No.1 mansion sent a wedding gift." "Lucky Amanda, nabbing a guy like that." The guests whispered among themselves. Amanda tapped the wine glass, motioning for everyone to be quiet. "To the owner of the No.1 mansion!" Devin glared at Amanda with pity, for he knew he hadn't sent Luther any gifts. Luther lied to Amanda. He lied to everyone. “What a loser. Faking a gift just to gain prestige,” Devin scoffed. But then, people-sized Devin up and sneered at Devin as he walked past them. Some of them even covered their noses with their handkerchiefs. “Who invited this trash dump? Couldn't he dress up properly for a wedding?” He heard someone say from the crowd. “Perhaps he's a beggar. We get a lot of them in the party these days. Just give him some money and you'll be fine,” another person whispered. “But this is a top-class wedding. Vermin like him shouldn't be here!” The argument persisted as Devin sighed, looking for the most insignificant seat in the auditorium. He didn't want to be the center of attention, although it seemed like he couldn't help it. “Here. Sit with me,” a beautiful lady with dark hair and blue eyes said to Devin. And when she smiled at him, Devin's heart melted on the spot. She was the most beautiful woman he had ever seen! Even more beautiful than Amanda. “Thanks…” Devin replied and sat beside her. She gazed at him curiously. “My name is Kia. I heard them talking about your outfit. Don't listen to them. You look great,” she said with a smile. “I'm Devin. And you look even better. I love your eyes,” Devin replied to her, smiling as well. “Thanks…” Kia blushed at his comment, her face heated up with a blush. “It's a grand gift, isn't it? The wedding gift. The owner of the number 1 mansion must be a top shot, don't you think?” Kia asked him. Devin looked at the statue again, and then at Kia. “I doubt the owner of the number 1 mansion has got any time for such frivolous things. It's all a show. Trust me,” Devin responded. Kia found his certainly curious. “How do you know—” “Oh! For fucks sake! Who let this fucking lickspittle into this auditorium?” Jim, Amanda's brother growled as he approached Devin. Devin settled his darkened gaze on him, but Jim did not back down. “This is the height of indiscipline. You dare sneak your way into my sister's wedding? Did you think you wouldn't get caught?” “How stupid and shameless can you fucking be? Why is it so hard to deal with the fact that Amanda has dumped you already? Must you parade your pitiful existence all over the place?” Jim yelled at Devin. Some guests turned to observe the scene, and Kia flushed with embarrassment while people started looking. “Why don't you just leave? You're embarrassing this young man for nothing!” Kia shot back at Jim who scoffed while he gazed upon her. “Bitch! If I want a mouth to suck my dick, I'll call you. You better shut your cum dump or I'll shut it for you!” Jim snapped back at Kia. But then, Devin rose to his feet. “Apologize to the lady,” he demanded. Although Devin towered over Jim, the latter tried to hide his intimidation. But Jim took a step back in fear. “Playing the knight in shining armor now? You think she'll fuck you if you do this? Ha! Not even a pig would want a freaking degenerate like you!” And then, Devin slapped Jim immediately. The guests gasped as the slap resounded, and Jim himself could swear he couldn't hear a thing afterward! “Fuck you, motherfucker!” Jim cursed and threw a punch at Devin. But Devin grabbed his hand, kicked him in the belly, and threw him into a roll of seats. The guests gasped again in shock as Jim landed with a clatter, breaking many of the chairs. “Devin! What the fuck are you doing at my wedding!!” Amanda suddenly screamed as the commotion shook the auditorium to its core.
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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
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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
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