บททั้งหมดของ UNTIL YOU REMEMBER ME: บทที่ 141 - บทที่ 150


 (Alessa) The voice doesn’t fade. It sharpens, like a blade dragged slowly across glass. Come on, Ali. Hurry up. Not loud. Not chaotic. Just… certain. The kind of certainty that lives in your bones before your mind can name it. My fingers tighten around the edge of the conference table until the wood bites into my palm. The glass of water in front of me stays untouched. I wish it would shatter. At least then the breaking would be on the outside. “Alessa.” Adrian’s voice is low, careful—the way it always is now, like I’m made of cracked porcelain and he’s the one holding the pieces. He takes one measured step closer. I take one back. Not because I fear him. Because if he touches me right now, I might fold into him completely, and I don’t know if the woman who falls would still be me. I need the memory to be real.
I need it to be mine.
Most of all, I need it not to be another lie. Across the room, Marcus watches with that quiet intensity he’s carried since the accident—


 (Alessa) The corridor empties too quickly. Security melts away in practiced silence, footsteps fading like they were never there. The spot where Elena stood is just polished marble again—cold, ordinary, unremarkable. As if a sister I didn’t remember could simply appear, crack my world open, and vanish without leaving a scar on the floor. But the scar is inside me. Deep. Bleeding. Adrian’s hand stays at the small of my back longer than necessary. His fingers press lightly, warm through the fabric of my blouse, as though letting go would mean admitting something fragile between us might slip away. When the last guard disappears around the corner, he finally drops it. The absence feels louder than the touch. “We’re moving,” he says. Low. Unquestionable. I nod. Staying here would be pretending the air isn’t still vibrating with her voice. The elevator ride is suffocating in its silence. Private car. Restricted access. Just the two of us and the weight of everything unsaid. The ci

(Alessa) The rain against the Manhattan windows has turned vicious now, slicing through the neon haze of a city that devours secrets and spits out ghosts. I remain curled on the leather couch in Adrian’s office, phone still warm in my lap like a live wire, while the files Elena sent pulse behind my eyes. Adrian sits close—thighs brushing, hand covering mine—but the space between us feels wider than the East River glittering far below. His quiet surrender earlier should have felt like freedom. Instead, it settles in my chest like another fracture, beautiful and terrifying. I close my eyes, and the memory doesn’t ask permission. It drags me back. It was raining that night too. A softer veil over the Upper West Side, blurring streetlights into gentle smears. I sat barefoot on the edge of our bed, hair loose and tangled, feeling smaller than the city outside our windows. Elena—Eden then—sat beside me, her hand warm on mine, steady in a way Adrian’s protectiveness had stopped feeling.


 ( Alessa) The rain doesn’t stop. It softens into something quieter, more persistent, like the city is whispering secrets it refuses to let us forget. It clings to the tall glass windows of Adrian’s office, blurring Manhattan into streaks of light and shadow—Times Square glow bleeding into the wet streets far below, yellow taxis cutting through puddles like forgotten promises. The city keeps moving. Indifferent. Alive. While inside this glass tower twenty floors above it, something between Adrian and me has quietly died. I’m still standing in the same place, yet I feel miles away from the woman who woke up in that hospital bed believing her life was simpler. My arms wrap around myself, fingers pressing into my ribs as if I could hold the fracturing pieces together by sheer will. The air between us feels thicker now, heavier with everything we’ve finally named. Adrian hasn’t moved much. He remains seated in the chair, shoulders slightly bowed, hands resting loosely on his knees li


( Alessa) The rain has settled into a steady drizzle, the kind that makes Manhattan feel smaller, more intimate, like the city is leaning in to listen to secrets it has no right to hear. I’m still standing beside Adrian’s desk, the glow of the open files casting long shadows across both of us. The Valez documents remain on screen—layers of my life I never knew existed—but my attention has shifted entirely to the man next to me. His presence fills the space between us: warm, heavy, achingly familiar. My body reacts before I can stop it—not desire, not fully, but that confused, aching awareness of him. Of how close he stands. Of how easily I could turn and let his arms close around me again, even knowing what those arms have cost me. Adrian’s phone vibrates on the desk. Once. Twice. A third time—sharp and insistent. He glances at the screen, and I watch the last traces of color drain from his face. “What is it?” I ask quietly. He doesn’t answer right away. Instead, he picks up the