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Studying her emotions
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The cursed mate's return Red alert
Kael's povThe building didn’t explode. That was the first thing that told me Maia was right.Instead of collapsing into chaos, the neural wing reorganized. Walls shifted with a low, architectural groan, panels sliding into new configurations like the place was rethinking itself in real time. Maia lifted her head from my chest.“I can feel them,” she said. “Every subsystem. Every failsafe they buried under me.”Footsteps echoed from the far corridor—measured, coordinated. Council security. Not panicked. Not yet. They still thought this was containment drift, not sovereignty loss.“We don’t have much time,” I said.She nodded. “We don’t need much.”She stepped forward, pulling me with her, toward the open doors. The hallway beyond wasn’t the one I remembered. The floor pulsed faintly with light, responding to her presence like a biometric key rewritten at the molecular level.As we moved, screens along the walls flickered to life—old footage, suppressed logs, memory shards the system
The cursed mate's return Malfunctioning tracks
Kael's povThe alarms didn’t mean what they used to. Once, they’d meant compliance, containment. Order snapping back into place.Now they sounded… wrong, out of sync like the building couldn’t decide whether to cage Maia or kneel to her.She was shaking hard beneath my hands, breath stuttering as memory after memory tore through her. I could feel it in the way her fingers dug into my wrists not really like fright but recognition. Pattern-locks collapsing, emotional firewalls melting under their own weight.“Kael,” she whispered, voice fractured, layered with echoes that weren’t quite hers. “I can see it. All of it.”“I know,” I said, leaning closer so she wouldn’t lose me in the noise. “Stay with my voice. Just mine.”Her eyes fluttered shut.Then snapped open again, focused.“They didn’t just erase memories,” she said, fast now, clarity cutting through the pain. “They rerouted them. Buried them under behavioral dampeners. Every time I chose someone over the Council, they punished the
The cursed mate's return System fault
Kael's povThe elevator didn’t shudder like I expected.It moved smoothly, reverently like it was afraid of her.Numbers climbed along the panel, but the floors weren’t labeled. They hadn’t been, even back then. The Council didn’t believe in naming places where they erased people. Names made things harder to forget.Maia’s grip on my hand stayed firm, but I could feel the tremor in her fingers now that the doors were closed. Alone. Contained. Ascending.“This is where it happened,” she said softly.Not a question.I nodded. “The core’s three levels up. This shaft feeds straight into the neural wing.”She swallowed. I felt it through her hand, like an echo traveling up my arm and into my chest.“I remember the walls,” she murmured. “I don’t remember what they did to me inside them.”“That’s not an accident.”The lights inside the elevator shifted from warm to sterile white. Thin lines of text began to scroll across the mirrored surface of the doors, system diagnostics, authorization pi
The cursed mate's return Strike the current
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
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