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ANNALISACouncilor 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
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Chapter 72ANNALISA"I don't know," I said. "I can't prove anything right now beyond what my own clinical instinct is telling me, and clinical instinct is not evidence." I kept my voice very low. "But if she had access to that bottle before today, even briefly, and added something to the remaining doses rather than to a single isolated administration, then any test on that medication, controlled or not, would produce exactly what she wants it to produce. The compound would be present in the documented medication because she put it there. Not because the medication caused it naturally. Because she made sure it would."Dominic was quiet for a long moment."That's a serious accusation to be unable to prove," he said."I know," I said."How would she have gotten access," he said. "Who handles the medication between dispensing and use."I thought about Reyes's earlier concern, the household staff, the supply chain he had been quietly watching since the
Too Late To Love: I'm Gone Alpha Chapter 71
Chapter 71ANNALISAThe council called a recess to prepare the test.Two members of the chamber's independent medical staff arrived within ten minutes, a man and a woman in plain clinical attire who had clearly been on standby for exactly this possibility, and they set up at a small table positioned at the front of the room where everyone could see what was happening without anyone being able to claim afterward that the process had been obscured.Dr. Maren's sealed bottle was placed on the table.Councilor Petra herself broke the seal, which I noted as a careful procedural choice, removing any possibility that the medication's chain of custody could later be questioned. She counted out the dose with the precision of someone who had clearly done this kind of verification before, confirmed it against the prescribing documentation, and held it up for the room to see before placing it in a small dish."Alpha Greenwood," she said. "Confirm this is your stand
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
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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
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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
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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
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Chapter 64ANNALISAThe formal notice arrived at six fifty-two in the morning.I know the exact time because I had been awake since five and had been watching my phone with the particular attention of someone who knows something is coming and cannot stop the watching even when they know it will not
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Chapter 63ANNALISAHe did not put music on, which told me he had assessed the quality of the silence I needed and had correctly identified it as the kind that should not be filled. He drove with the focused ease he brought to most things, one hand on the wheel, his eyes on the road, an
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Chapter 62ANNALISAThe morning had been quiet.That was the thing I kept returning to afterward, the fact that it had started quietly, with Eli eating breakfast and the sun coming through the kitchen window and Dominic making coffee with the focused attention he gave everything, and nothing about
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