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Chapter thirty three: Freya has disappeared
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2025-05-03 06:45:16
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Kael's povThe blackout didn’t last long.Emergency lights shuddered awake overhead, thin red strips lining the hallway like old scars. Ryn groaned beside me, clutching his ribs. Kieran checked the corners for exits. He always did that when he was afraid, and he was terrified now.Maia stood in front of the elevator panel, unreadable, her fingers curled into tight fists at her sides. She didn’t look back at us. She didn’t need to.The air felt wrong. Too thick. Like the building recognized her.“Maia,” I said, softer than I meant to. “Talk to us before the system wakes up fully.”She didn’t turn. “If I talk, I’ll second-guess it.”“And if you don’t?” Ryn asked. “You’ll walk straight into the data choke point without a tether.”“That’s the point,” she said.I felt something cold settle under my ribs. A familiar feeling. The kind I used to get back when we worked together in the city, long before any of this. Back when she’d walk into a meeting with Council executives and pretend she ha
The cursed mate's return Not her voice now
Kael's povWe moved before the sun had fully risen, because dawn wasn’t safety. Dawn was surveillance. Dawn was when the city woke with the Council’s eyes wide open.Kieran slipped out first, checking blind corners and mapping heat signatures. Ryn followed, slower but steady, wincing every few steps. Maia waited until last, and I stayed behind her like gravity itself was pulling me in that direction.The air outside the safehouse was cold enough to bite, fog hanging low over the cracked pavement. Every sound felt too loud. Every shadow felt inhabited.None of it compared to the tension threading through the four of us.We moved in silence for three blocks before Maia finally spoke.“Kael,” she said without turning.“Yes.”“What Aeron said yesterday…” Her voice didn’t break. Maia never broke. But something softened—just around the edges. “About memories.”My chest tightened. “You think he remembers everything?”“No,” she said. “Not yet. But he remembers pieces. And pieces are dangerous
The cursed mate's return Studying her emotions
Kael's povThe city shifted around us after Aeron vanished.Not physically, no explosions but in that subtle, bone-deep way you feel when a predator leaves the clearing and the forest doesn’t quite trust the silence that follows.None of us spoke for several blocks.Maia walked ahead, jaw set, spine straight, like movement itself was the only thing keeping her from splintering. Kieran stayed close to the periphery, scanning, rerouting, erasing our wake as we went. Ryn limped between us, bleeding through a hastily wrapped sleeve, pride the only thing keeping him upright.And me?I was rewinding everything Aeron had said.You’d do it again.The worst part was how close that came to the truth.We reached a safehouse just before dawn, one I’d never logged, never tagged, never even shared with Kieran until now. An old administrative annex disguised as low-income housing, forgotten by upgrades and ignored by surveillance. I keyed the door manually and ushered them inside.Once the locks eng
The cursed mate's return Beyond recognition
Kael's povWe didn’t get far before the city reminded us who it belonged to.The fail corridor spat us out into a freight artery that should have been abandoned, should have been empty but nothing stayed empty once the Council decided you were worth hunting. Floodlights blazed to life overhead, washing the steel walls in white so harsh it made my eyes sting.“Down,” I ordered.Maia reacted instantly, pulling Ryn with her behind a cargo lift as rounds sparked off metal where our heads had been a second earlier. Kieran returned fire without hesitation, precise bursts meant to create space, not body counts.Ryn stumbled, breath ragged.He was worse off than he’d let on.Of course he was.“I can keep moving,” he rasped, trying to straighten.Maia didn’t look at him. She just tightened her grip on his arm and hauled him forward with grim efficiency.That cut deeper than if she’d yelled at him.We ran.Through screaming alarms and screaming systems, through corridors I’d helped design for c
The cursed mate's return Quick tension
Kael's povThe fail corridor smelled like dust and old electricity like something buried and forgotten on purpose.We moved fast and silent, boots barely scraping the concrete as emergency lights pulsed dim red overhead. This place hadn’t been used in years. That was my doing. I’d signed the decommission papers myself, buried beneath layers of budget denials and shifting priorities. The Council thought it obsolete.They never imagined I’d need it to break one of their own prisons open.Maia walked ahead of me now, weapon firm in her hand, posture sharp and lethal in a way that had nothing to do with training alone. Pain had refined her. Betrayal had burned away hesitation.She didn’t look back.That was worse than anger.Kieran brought up the rear, muttering updates under his breath, fingers dancing across his wrist console as he ghosted cameras and rerouted sensors. “Ryn’s being held in Sublevel Nine,” he said. “Interrogation wing. They’ve got him restrained but conscious.”Maia’s st
The cursed mate's return Touch I didn't want
Kael's povThe kiss didn’t end things.It detonated them.Maia stepped back first, wiping at her face as if she hated herself for the weakness and hated me for seeing it. The distance between us felt louder than the alarms now echoing through the corridors beyond the sealed door.I let her have it.I deserved the space.“Say something,” she said finally, voice sharp from crying. “Don’t just stand there like you didn’t just confess to rearranging my life.”I swallowed. “If I speak right now, I’ll either beg or lie. You don’t need either.”Her jaw tightened. “You already decided what I needed once.”That cut clean and deep.Kieran’s voice crackled faintly over comms, urgent, clipped. “Kael. We’ve got movement topside. Internal teams. And Ryn’s been pulled from holding.”Maia stiffened instantly.“They took him,” she said.“Yes,” Kieran replied. “Alive. For now.”The word now carried too much weight.Maia’s eyes burned into mine. “You’re going to tell me everything. Not later. Not once i
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