The system cold voice confirmed my husband ultimate betrayal: Kaelen had manually severed our mental link. While I choked on blood, the Empire God of War was deeply entangled with his new lover. He pressed the one-way block button, dismissing my telepathic dying screams as a pathetic attempt to fake illness for his attention. I obediently signed his humiliating network downgrade agreement as a cover for my irreversible choice. I would complete the lethal soul-mark extraction surgery to escape him, even though severing our bond meant I would permanently lose the ability to mentally fuse with anyone again. With three days left on the extraction countdown, my physical body was rapidly failing. If Kaelen detected my fading energy before I could escape the capital, my fragile mind would instantly collapse into brain death.