Day twenty-six. The NPR interview airs at 7 PM.We listen from the warehouse, surrounded by our makeshift family. Mom drove down from the safe house. Harper and Brandon sit with laptops ready to monitor reactions. Even Viktor joins via video call from Moscow."Are you ready?" Mom asks, squeezing my hand."No," I admit. "But let's do it anyway."Ira Glass's voice fills the room. Familiar. Comforting. Then ours. Our story, distilled into fifty-three minutes of truth.Hearing my own voice describe the first time I saw Lucian is surreal. The attraction. The confusion. The immediate, undeniable pull."I thought I was losing my mind," my recorded voice says. "Because you don't meet your stepbrother and feel like the universe just shifted. That's not normal.""But for mate bonds, it is normal," Ira responds gently. "That's what the science shows.""That's what the science shows," I confirm. "But knowing that doesn't make it easier to accept."Lucian's hand finds mine as we listen to him desc
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