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Too Late To Love: I'm Gone Alpha Chapter 70
Chapter 70ANNALISACouncilor Brask turned to Antonio."Alpha Greenwood," she said. "The council would like to hear directly from you regarding your own assessment of your recent state of mind and decision-making."Antonio stood.He had been still throughout Dr. Maren's testimony and my questioning, controlled in the particular way I recognized from years of watching him manage rooms, and when he spoke his voice carried the calm, measured quality of a man who believed completely in what he was saying."I want to address this plainly," he said, "because I think the council deserves plainness rather than a parade of medical terminology that obscures the actual question." He looked at the table, not at me, not at Christiana, somewhere in the middle distance that let him address the whole chamber at once. "Every decision I have made in the past week, I made freely. The decision to confirm the ceremony date. The decision to sign the documents related to my m
Too Late To Love: I'm Gone Alpha Chapter 69
Chapter 69ANNALISADr. Maren spoke for twenty minutes without interruption.I let him.There was a version of cross-examination that came from cutting someone off, scoring small points in the moment, and there was a version that came from letting a witness build their full structure first so you could see exactly where the load-bearing walls were before you tested them. I had decided, somewhere in the five days of preparation, that I trusted the second version more, and watching him talk, I was glad I had.He walked the council through the timeline with the comfortable precision of a man reciting something he knew well. Eighteen months ago, Antonio had come to him with sleep disruption, a pattern of difficulty settling and frequent waking, compounded by what Dr. Maren described as "the predictable pressures of pack leadership." He had run the standard assessments. He had ruled out the standard concerns. He had arrived at a treatment plan involving a moderat
Too Late To Love: I'm Gone Alpha Chapter 68
Chapter 68ANNALISADr. Henare stood with the steadiness I had come to expect from her and walked the panel through her own independent analysis, confirming each element of what I had presented, adding the specific clinical detail that the compound's effect profile was inconsistent with any sedative, anxiolytic, or sleep medication currently in regional pharmaceutical use."In your professional opinion," Councilor Brask asked, "is there a legitimate medical explanation for the presence of this compound that does not involve deliberate administration by a third party?""Not one I am aware of," Dr. Henare said. "The compound does not appear in any licensed formulary. If it were present through a legitimate prescribed medication, that medication itself would need to contain a banned and unlicensed substance, which would be its own significant violation."The room held that for a moment.I watched two of the four undecided council members exchange a brief glance.This was the moment, I th
Too Late To Love: I'm Gone Alpha Chapter 67
Chapter 67ANNALISAThe council chamber was colder than I expected.Not in temperature, though it was that too, some quality of the stone that held onto a chill regardless of the season. Colder in the way the room had been built. High ceilings, no windows at eye level, the seven seats at the raised table arranged so that anyone standing at the floor level had to look up to address them. It was architecture designed to remind you, before a single word was spoken, who held the position of judgment and who did not.I had read about chambers like this. I had never stood in one.Dominic was beside me, in formal dress, his expression doing the thing it did before difficult negotiations, settled and unreadable and entirely present. Dr. Henare was on my other side, her case files organized in a leather folder she had not opened once on the drive, because she had told me the night before that if she needed to open it during testimony she had already lost the thread of her own argument.We took
Too Late To Love: I'm Gone Alpha Chapter 66
Chapter 66ANTONIOReyes stood in my study with his hands behind his back and I let the silence sit there for longer than it needed to before I said anything."You went to her," I said."Antonio—""You went to Annalisa." I kept my voice even because raising it would not change what had already happened. "You told her you thought I was being drugged. You handed her a theory and she ran tests and now there is a council submission with my name on it three days before I am supposed to mate.""I was concerned," Reyes said. "I have watched you for eleven years and what I saw did not match anything I have seen from you before.""What you saw," I said, "was a man trying to manage an impossible week. The elders breathing down my neck. A ceremony I did not choose the timing of. A former wife back in my territory with a new Alpha making sure I understood exactly how thoroughly I have been replaced." I looked at him. "That is not compliance, Reyes. That is exhaustion.""I don't think that's what
Too Late To Love: I'm Gone Alpha Chapter 65
Chapter 65ANNALISAI sat with the phone in my hand and the silence of the room around me and I let myself feel what the call had done.I had expected to feel anger.Anger was familiar and useful and I had gotten good at working with it over the past four years, knowing its shape and its weight and how long it lasted and what it meant when it arrived. Anger I could manage.What arrived instead was something quieter and considerably more inconvenient.He is settled. Compliant. Mine.I sat with those three words and felt them do what they were going to do regardless of whether I wanted them to.There was an ache.I noticed it the way you noticed something you had been successfully not noticing, the moment when the thing you had been working around became too present to work around anymore. It sat in the middle of my chest and it was not large and it was not dramatic and it was not the devastating grief of someone who had lost something they treasured.It was smaller than that.And small
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