Semua Bab ALPHA DOM AND HIS HUMAN SURROGATE: Bab 61 - Bab 64

I don't go to the apartment.This is the first decision and I make it before Dominic asks me not to. Not because I'm afraid but because I am nineteen weeks pregnant and I have learned, over the last six weeks, the difference between the bravery that serves the situation and the bravery that just costs something without purpose.Going to my apartment right now costs something without purpose.Isobel goes.She takes two people from the estate security rotation and she goes within twelve minutes of the call. She doesn't announce herself. She uses the fire escape on the east side of the building instead of the front entrance which she apparently assessed as an entry point the first time she swept the building three weeks ago and has remembered since because Isobel remembers everything she might need.We track her on a shared location Callum sets up on his laptop at the kitchen table.The three dots moving through the building floor plan he's pulled from the city's public property records.

Sera from Portland calls twice more that week.Not intrusively. The first call is to ask a specific question about the Lunare lineage that Rosamund's letter introduced without fully explaining, and I answer it as clearly as I can from what I know, and then I tell her to call Rosamund directly for the deeper history because Rosamund carries fifty years of it in a way I don't yet.The second call is shorter. She just says she told her sister and her sister cried and she wanted to tell someone who would understand why that mattered.I understand why that mattered.I tell her so.She hangs up.I sit in my apartment on my couch with my feet up because my feet have started to register opinions about standing, which is new and mildly inconvenient given my job, and I think about twenty-two more letters going to twenty-two more people who always felt like something was different about them.By Wednesday four more have called.Not me directly. Rosamund, who calls me at the end of each day with