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Chapter One Hundred And Forty Nine
Darren left the house with a clean excuse and a frown he hadn't let Riley see. He had told her he had someone urgent to meet, kept it vague, the same way he kept most things vague with her when the details weren't something he wanted to manage her reaction to. She had accepted it without much pushback. She was distracted by her phone, watching the numbers on her latest post the way someone watched a scoreboard, refreshing and checking and refreshing again, and his departure had barely registered beyond a brief look up and a nod. He had walked out, closed the door behind him, and let the expression he had been maintaining for the past hour drop entirely. He stood on the pavement outside and looked at nothing in particular while the frown settled in properly. The afternoon had a chill to it that he hadn't dressed quite warmly enough for and he pulled his jacket tighter as he started walking toward where he had parked. The past few weeks had given him something he hadn't expect
Chapter One Hundred And Forty Eight
The train doors sealed shut and Arianna watched the last few passengers settle and the platform outside the window begin to slide backward as the train pulled away from the station. The city moved past the glass slowly at first, then with increasing speed, the buildings and roads and familiar landmarks of a place she had lived in long enough to stop seeing clearly. She watched it go without particular feeling. She was tired in a way that sleep hadn't fixed, the kind of tired that came from too many things happening in too short a period of time and not enough space in between any of them to actually process what had happened before the next thing arrived. She had her bag in the overhead compartment and her phone in her jacket pocket and a journey of several hours ahead of her. That was enough for now. She made her way down the aisle toward her allocated seat, checking the number against her ticket. The carriage was filling up but not uncomfortably so. People were arranging
Chapter One Hundred And Forty Seven
Kaelen stepped out of Mirella's room and pulled the door closed behind him.He stood in the corridor for a moment, hand still on the door handle, and allowed himself one breath that wasn't about anything except the transition from being in that room to being outside of it. Inside, he had been focused. There was always something to check, something to verify, a reading to confirm or a question to put to the medical team. The focus was necessary and he was good at maintaining it. But it cost something, standing in that room, looking at those machines, and the cost accumulated over hours in a way he only noticed when he stepped away.He let go of the handle and straightened up.Jonah was at the end of the corridor.Kaelen saw him from a distance and knew immediately from the way he was standing that he had something to report. Jonah had a particular quality when he was carrying information he anticipated would be unwelcome. He didn't fidget and he didn't avoid eye contact, but there was
Chapter One Hundred And Forty Six
Riley had not expected it to move this fast.She was sitting on the couch with her phone in both hands, scrolling through the comments, and the numbers kept changing every time she refreshed. More shares, more comments, more people weighing in with opinions that were getting louder and more pointed by the minute. She had posted it and then waited with the low-grade anxiety of someone who had thrown something into a crowd and wasn't sure if anyone was going to pick it up. She didn't have to wait long. Within the first hour it had started moving, and now it had moved well beyond anything she had calculated when she first put it up.The comments were exactly what she had wanted.People were angry. Not mildly critical, not cautiously skeptical. They were genuinely angry, the kind of anger that spread because it felt righteous to the people feeling it. They were talking about Kaelen in terms that would have made his PR team reach for antacids. They were talking about Novax the same way. Wo
Chapter One Hundred amd Forty Four
Kaelen had not left the headquarters since bringing Mirella back.There had been too much to oversee. The transfer itself, getting her settled, ensuring that the team was fully briefed on her current condition and what the hospital had been doing to manage it. Then came the process of running their own assessments, their own tests, pulling data with the kind of precision that only purpose-built equipment could deliver. He had moved through all of it without stopping and somewhere in between he had lost track of how many hours had passed.Now he was standing in the room where Mirella lay.She was hooked up to more machines than the last time. That was the first thing he had registered when they got her set up, and the observation had settled into him quietly and stayed there. The last time she had been here it had already looked like too much, too many wires and monitors for one small person. This was worse. The equipment around her bed had multiplied and t
Chapter One Hundred amd Forty Four
Kaelen had not left the headquarters since bringing Mirella back. There had been too much to oversee. The transfer itself, getting her settled, ensuring that the team was fully briefed on her current condition and what the hospital had been doing to manage it. Then came the process of running their own assessments, their own tests, pulling data with the kind of precision that only purpose-built equipment could deliver. He had moved through all of it without stopping and somewhere in between he had lost track of how many hours had passed. Now he was standing in the room where Mirella lay. She was hooked up to more machines than the last time. That was the first thing he had registered when they got her set up, and the observation had settled into him quietly and stayed there. The last time she had been here it had already looked like too much, too many wires and monitors for one small person. This was worse. The equipment around her bed had multiplied and the sounds it made filled t
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