Alle Kapitel von Remember Me, Alpha : Kapitel 61 – Kapitel 70

MIRA POV“Do you have ten minutes?” Orion said.He was in the doorway of the small side room off the main corridor, the one that was used for one-on-one briefings and not much else. He had his tablet under his arm and the professional face on but there was something underneath it that was not professional exactly. Something that had been sitting there for a while.“Yes,” I said.We went in. He closed the door. Did not sit at the table, which told me this was not a formal thing. He stood near the window, tablet still under his arm, and I stood across from him and waited.“This is not about the faction,” he said.“Okay.”“Or the alliance work.” He looked at the window for a second and then at me. “I wanted to ask about you.”I blinked. “Me.”“How you are,” he said. “Specifically. Not the version you give in rooms when someone asks and you say fine and move on.”I looked at him.Orion was not a man who wasted words. Everything he said had been thought about before it came out. The fact t

MIRA POVThe ceiling was different.That was the first thing. Not bad different. Just not mine. The ceiling above my apartment had a small water stain in the far left corner that I had been meaning to report for two years. This one was clean. Higher too. The kind of ceiling that came with a building that had been built later, with more space between the floors.I lay still.His arm was across me. Heavy and warm and completely certain, the way he was certain about things even in sleep. The window on the far wall was cracked open, just slightly, the way he always left it, cold air coming in at the edge of it and mixing with the warmth of the room and the smell of coffee from whenever he had made it. Not recently. Sometime before I woke up.His apartment.I had not planned to be here this morning. The night had run late, the planning session had gone until eleven, and then we had been on the roof and the roof had been cold and at some point the decision had made itself without me noticin

MIRA POV“Are you ready?” Caius said.“Yes,” I said.He looked at me for a second. Not checking if I meant it. Just looking. Then he nodded and we went in.The tribunal chamber was older than anything else in the pack building. Stone walls that had been here before the rest of the structure was built around them, high ceiling, no windows. The light came from overhead fixtures that were modern and completely wrong for the room but nobody had changed them. Long stone benches on both sides, already filled. Pack council at the front. Allied representatives at the back.And Destan at the centre.He was sitting in the chair they had placed at the middle of the room. Not chained, not restrained. The tribunal did not work that way. He was just there, silver-haired and impeccably dressed even now, even here, the dark jacket with not a crease in it and those pale green eyes that were doing what they always did, which was absolutely nothing. Completely calm. The face of a man who had decided the

MIRA POV“The Harrow contact responded,” I said.Caius looked up from the file he was reading. We were in the war room. Morning session, first formal one of the repair work. Not crisis response anymore. The slower kind. The kind that required chairs pulled up and coffee that stayed warm because nobody was rushing out of the room.“Yael Marron,” he said.“Yes. She is willing to talk. Not to commit to anything yet, but willing to talk.” I set the message down on the table in front of him. “That is the first yes we have had from that direction. The Harrow senior council has been the hardest hold because they were hit first and they had the longest time to sit with the damage before anyone reached out.”“A yes to talk is the beginning,” he said. He read the message. Nodded once. “Set the meeting for next week. Neutral location.”“Already suggested it,” I said. “She is considering.”He looked at me with the expression he had when something had gone the right direction and he was filing it.

MIRA POV“I want to ask something,” the Kellran representative said. “And I want to be clear before I ask it that I am not directing it at anyone personally.”The room went the specific kind of quiet that happened when someone was about to say the thing everyone had been waiting for someone to say.“Go ahead,” Caius said.The Kellran representative looked at his hands and then up at the room. “The Memory Wolf situation,” he said. “Specifically, the precedent it sets.” He glanced at me briefly and then back at the table. “If one person was able to carry an Alpha’s full intelligence and operational knowledge for five years, in close proximity to that Alpha, in a position of influence, without formal oversight or protocol, then the question has to be asked.” He paused. “What is the safeguard? What prevents this from being used intentionally in the future? By someone with less honourable intentions?”Nobody spoke for a second.I said, “You are right to ask.”He looked at me.“It is a legi