Lahat ng Kabanata ng Midnight Between Us: Kabanata 31 - Kabanata 40

Gunfire erupted instantly.The underground chamber exploded into chaos as Black Veil operatives opened fire from the upper walkways surrounding them.Bullets rained downward in violent streaks of light.Luca DeLuca tackled Ava behind an overturned steel examination table just as sparks exploded across the floor where she had been standing.“Stay down!”L-001 roared.The sound shook the entire chamber.Massive hands slammed into the concrete floor hard enough to crack it while bullets tore through the creature’s back and shoulders.But instead of fallingThe monster stood.Its damaged eye locked upward toward Selene.Recognition flashed there.Then hatred.Pure and ancient.Selene remained calm high above the chamber, untouched by the chaos around her. Black Veil operatives moved around her like shadows while emergency lights painted her silver-streaked hair blood red.“You should’ve stayed asleep,” she said softly.L-001 screamed again.And charged.The entire underground facility tre

THREE.The number flashed blood red across every monitor in the underground chamber.Panic exploded instantly.The facility shook with violent force as hidden explosives deep within the walls activated one after another. Fire burst through cracks in the concrete while steel support beams screamed under unbearable pressure.Everything was collapsing.Now.Luca DeLuca grabbed Ava hard enough to hurt.“Move!”The world became noise and destruction.Black Veil operatives shouted over comms while debris rained from the ceiling. Some sprinted for emergency exits. Others kept firing wildly toward the lower levels where smoke swallowed everything beneath the shattered platform.Selene remained standing above them in the chaos, perfectly composed while flames rose around her like she b, as ifed inside destruction.Ava couldn’t stop staring at her.At the woman who claimed to love her.At the woman wThe to buris y hundreds of children alive.“How can you do this?” Ava screamed upward.Selene lo

The glowing eyes blinked once in the darkness.Then the entire underground chamber fell silent.Not ordinary silence.The kind born from absolute terror.The forgotten survivors backed away from the shadows immediately, trembling beneath the flickering emergency lights. Several covered their mouths to stop themselves from crying out.Mila’s face drained of color.“No,” she whispered shakily. “He woke up.”Ava’s pulse thundered painfully.The thing inside the darkness moved again.Slowly.Hospital beds scraped across the floor somewhere beyond the weak emergency lights. Metal groaned. Chains rattled softly.And thenA smell reached them.Rot.Chemicals.Blood.Luca DeLuca painfully raised his gun despite barely remaining conscious now.“We need to leave.”Nobody argued this time.Even Ava.Because every instinct in her body screamed danger.Mila suddenly grabbed Ava’s wrist tightly.Too tightly.“You can’t run from him.”Ava looked at her sharply.“What is that thing?”Mila’s eyes fill

“She belongs below.”The words echoed together through the ruined underground chamber.Not shouted.Not angry.Certain.Ava felt cold fear crawl through every inch of her body.The two creatures stood several feet apart beneath flickering emergency lights, breathing heavily after tearing the chamber apart around them.And despite the violence between themThey agreed on one thing.Her.L-001’s damaged eye remained fixed on Ava with painful devotion while the Hollow King’s pale expression twisted into something almost protective.Like neither monster saw her as prey.Something worse.Something sacred.The underground chamber trembled again.Cracks spread across the ceiling overhead while rusted pipes burst steam into the air. Somewhere deeper in the facility, alarms continued screaming through the darkness.The entire underground city was collapsing.Yet neither creature moved.Because all they cared about was Ava.Luca DeLuca stepped protectively in front of her again despite barely s

The voice echoed through the underground stairwell.Calm.Controlled.Male.“Welcome back, Subject A.”Ava stopped breathing.The survivors froze instantly along the narrow maintenance stairs while cold blue lights continued activating beneath them one by one.Rows of hidden systems awakened in the darkness below.Ancient.Waiting.Watching.Damien looked like he’d seen a ghost.“No…”Ariadna grabbed her weapon immediately.“Who the hell was that?”Nobody answered.Because nobody seemed capable of speaking.The underground stairwell trembled faintly from the collapse happening above them, but somehow the deeper they descendedThe more stable everything became.Like this place was built to survive the apocalypse.Ava’s chest tightened painfully.Subject A.The voice called her Subject A.Not Ava.Not daughter.Not survivor.A subject.An experiment.Again.Luca DeLuca stepped closer beside her despite limping badly now.“Stay behind me.”Ava barely heard him.Her mind raced violently.