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Chapter 158The weight of Marcus’s words hung in the air like smoke that refused to disperse.“This is not over yet.”Of course, it wasn’t.I didn’t need a reminder.Ren exhaled deeply, crushing the cigarette beneath his heel. He stood and exchanged a quick glance with Marcus before facing me again. “You know he’s right. We bought ourselves a little time, not peace.”“I never expected peace,” I said, my voice cold. “I expected war. And I intend to finish it this time.”Marcus scoffed. “With what army? Park’s gone. Zee’s gone. Juliet barely tolerates the air you breathe. Edwin’s gathering allies as we speak, and Nathan—dead or not—left a scar that’s still bleeding.”I clenched my fists. “Then we stop the bleeding.”Ren stepped closer, his tone quieter now, more measured. “Are you sure you’re up for this, Adrian? Last time, you lost more than just a fight. You lost yourself.”“I know,” I muttered. “But I also know I’m not that same boy anymore.”Marcus laughed bitterly. “Yeah, well, bei
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Chapter 157 Sometimes you just have to let go. Love is not forced. You just have to wait it out and see if it is going to find its way back to you. At least that was what I thought the moment I saw the look in her eyes. She was not freaked out by the fact that I was the super boy who could fly. Maybe she did, or maybe not? I was not sure. She had this look that meant that she was done with me. With us. The words replayed in my head long after she’d left.I stood there alone, watching her disappear out of sight. A part of me wanted to call her back. Probably try to convince her to give me a chance, but after the death of Nathan, maybe there was no going back from there. Maybe what we need is closure after all. I don't know why I think there was still a chance for us. A part of me wanted it badly, while the other part, the brutal side of me, didn't care. And maybe that was the part that hurt the most.I didn’t chase her. Not this time. I had already taken too much from her—her
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Chapter 156I turned slowly, heart pounding.There she was.Zee.Her hair was pulled into a messy bun, strands clinging to her sweat-dappled forehead, and her eyes… God, her eyes. They held so much fire, so much hurt, and more than anything, disbelief. She wasn’t yelling, not crying, not running into my arms like I’d foolishly imagined. She was just standing there, guarded, unreadable.“Tessa, leave us,” she said softly.Tessa scoffed. “Seriously? Zee, don’t be stupid. You’re actually going to talk to him after everything?”Zee didn’t even flinch. “I said, leave us.”Tessa clenched her jaw, glared at me, then stomped off in the opposite direction, her heels clacking like gunshots in the silence.Now it was just the two of us.I swallowed, suddenly unsure of what to say. My rehearsed speech dissolved the second she looked at me.“You cut your hair,” I murmured, eyes tracing the new shape of her silhouette.“You blew up my life,” she shot back, arms still folded across her chest. “I fi
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Chapter 155The echo of the motorcycle’s engine still lingered in the air when I ducked into the alley beside a crumbling warehouse. My breath was shallow, controlled, but my instincts were howling. Something was wrong. Off.My senses had always been sharp since the enhancement, but this was different. The air around me was too still, like the world was holding its breath.I scanned the alley, every shadow, every flicker of movement. Nothing.Still, I kept walking, pulling my hoodie lower, tightening my grip on the burner phone in my pocket. I knew it wasn’t just paranoia. Tessa’s call, Juliet’s kiss, Park’s farewell—they were all signs.The balance was shifting.Again.I needed Zee before the world collapsed around me. I could barely think. I needed one person to tell me that I was doing the right thing.Just one person, and the name that kept coming to my mind was Zee. I knew she was angry at me, but to think that she would go and date someone like Nathan was really surprising. I st
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Chapter 154 After the death of Nathan, a part of me felt relieved. The long-time rage, the anger, and the part of me that won't forgive myself. Everything was gone. I felt lightheaded, and I couldn't think straight. I was out in the open when I heard her voice. “Are you alright, Adrian?” She said, slowly walking to my side. I turned to see Juliet standing right beside me. “I will be. What about you? Are you alright?” I know Juliet and Nathan had shared some history. I don't know if she was okay with the fact that he was dead. “I am fine, Adrian. I believe with the death of Nathan, there is nothing to fear anymore. The school can be rebuilt, and we can start all over again on a clean slate.” Juliet said, hugging me. For a long time, she stared at my face before she finally kissed me. It was brief, and I felt like pushing her off, but I let her be. Maybe she deserved that much from me. She pulled away and turned without looking at me. A part of me wanted to pull her back. But I k
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Chapter 153Night draped itself over the city like a cloak, thick and unforgiving. The air was charged with something electric—expectation, fear, destiny. We stood at the edge of the old train depot, the one Ren had marked as Nathan’s temporary hideout.It was supposed to be impenetrable—steel walls reinforced by his father’s private tech, drones buzzing the perimeter like steel mosquitoes. But we weren’t just some ragtag group of fugitives anymore. We were weapons.“Everyone knows what they’re doing?” I asked, my voice low but steady.Ren nodded, eyes locked on the drone frequencies he’d already scrambled. “Surveillance is blind. We’ve got three minutes before the next rotation.”Park cracked his knuckles, his jacket flaring slightly as he hovered off the ground for a second. “We’re in and out. Fast and brutal.”Juliet held up a strange device—some kind of pulse disruptor Damien had salvaged. “This’ll fry the inner sensors long enough for us to get to him.”I turned to Marcus, who ha
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