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Chapter 38 Part 3
Kyle crossed the hallway in three strides and threw open her door."What are you doing?" Vivian's voice hit him from behind, sharp and furious. She had followed him up the stairs, still dripping, still seething."I need to check your shelves." Kyle was already inside, scanning the small bookcase against the wall. "The old Kyle hid something in this house. Something physical. He would have put it somewhere Blake would never search, and Blake would never search the room of the woman he helped sell to the black market.""You are not going through my things!" Vivian grabbed for his arm, but Kyle ducked sideways and reached the bookcase first.His eyes swept the titles. Romance novels. Academic texts on beast biology. A botanical encyclopedia. Cultivation manuals. Nothing unusual. Nothing out of place. Nothing that a five star black serpent wouldn't naturally own.Then his gaze dropped to the bottom shelf. Shoved behind the academic texts, spine out, hidden from casual view by the larger b
Chapter 38 Part 2
The words landed in Kyle's chest like a stone dropped from a height. His breath caught. His fingers curled into fists at his sides."I don't have parents." Kyle's voice came out strained. "I don't have family. The terminal record says men in Fairview are raised under sanctuary protection from birth. No family names. No bloodlines. No parents. I was told I came from the system and the system is all I've ever had.""That's what every husband's record says," Scarlett confirmed, her golden eyes moving to his with careful attention. "The sanctuary backstory is standard across all registered males.""Then who was he burning money for?" Kyle's voice went up, his composure cracking at the edges. "If I have no family, no parents, no ancestors, then who was the old Kyle mourning at three in the morning on October seventeenth?"Nobody answered. The question hung in the room like smoke that refused to clear."Someone lied." Kyle pressed both palms against the sides of his head, his eyes squeezed
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Kyle stood over the dark shaft in the storage room floor, the cold air rising against his face, and a thought hit him so hard his knees almost buckled.If Blake had tampered with one memory, there could be others. Dozens. Months worth. An entire history rewritten inside his skull without leaving a single fingerprint."Hailey." Kyle turned to her, his voice sharp. "When you scanned my memories just now, how far back did the tampering go?"Hailey's brown eyes tightened. Her hands were still faintly glowing from the trance session. "I only scanned seven days back. That's what Vivian asked for.""But could it go further?" Kyle stepped toward her. "Could someone have been altering my memories for weeks? Months?""Theoretically, yes." Hailey folded her hands together, her quiet voice carrying the weight of someone choosing every word carefully. "Mind manipulation on this level requires repeated physical contact with the subject. Regular sessions. If Blake had access to you frequently over a
Chapter 37 Part 3
Silence filled the storage room. Riley stood in the doorway with her mouth open. Bianca appeared behind her, her dark eyes locked on the shaft with an intensity that could have cut steel. Hailey pressed both hands over her mouth. Scarlett stood at the back of the group, her golden eyes moving from the shaft to Kyle's face with the cold, focused calculation of someone who had just watched every suspicion she ever held about their neighbor click into place like tumblers in a lock.And Vivian stood in the center of the hallway, soaking wet, dripping rainwater onto the floor she had just mopped, staring at the dark hole in the wall with amber eyes that held something Kyle had never seen in them before. Not anger. Not hatred. Not the cold, murderous patience she usually wore like armor.Shock. Real, genuine, unguarded shock. The look of a woman who had blamed the wrong man for the worst thing that ever happened to her and was watching the truth crawl out of a hole in the wall.Kyle stood u
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"Blake Sterling." Kyle stood up from the chair so fast it scraped backward across the floor. "He did this. He controlled me. He walked me out of this house like a remote controlled toy, took me to the black market, used my hands to complete the trade that set up Vivian's sale, and brought me back before any of you noticed I was gone.""That's a very large accusation." Vivian's amber eyes burned from across the room, her wet clothes still dripping on the floor. "You're telling me the golden boy next door, the kind, gentle, basket carrying saint of the settlement, mind controlled you into selling me to an underground fighting ring?""He's not a saint!" Kyle's voice cracked louder. "He has a hidden room in his house. A locked office behind a door with no handle. A terminal running on a network that doesn't connect to anything in the settlement. I saw it in the memories, Hailey. Not my memories. The ghost layer underneath. The real memories that whoever controlled me tried to bury.""What
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The golden light behind Kyle's eyelids pulsed warm and steady as Hailey's voice guided him deeper into the trance. The memories of seven days ago began to surface like photographs floating up from the bottom of a dark pool."Tell me where you are," Hailey whispered, her palms warm against his temples. "Seven days ago. Morning. What do you see?""The house." Kyle's voice came out distant and hollow, his lips barely moving. "I'm in the kitchen. Eating breakfast. Alone. The others are out on perimeter patrol. Riley left first. Bianca went after.""What time?" Hailey pressed gently."Six thirty. Maybe seven. The clock on the wall is broken so I'm guessing." Kyle's brow creased. "I finish eating. I wash the plate. I sit on the couch and pull up the terminal.""Then what?""Nothing." Kyle's face went blank. "I'm on the couch. Then I'm in bed. It's dark outside. I don't remember anything between."Riley stepped forward from the stairwell. "That's wrong. He was home all day. I saw him at lunc
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