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s and a filing cabinet that didn't close properly, the bottom drawer forever stuck halfway open .. and she had

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ing at that file

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d sat on the edge of the other desk with her arms folded

o I didn't have to look at

I said. "

r knowing when people were lying but also a talent for knowing when to leave it alone. She picked up my cold

g. Like she was just mentioning the weather. "For his post-mis

stupid and I did not react. I had

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I knew Alphas were generally b

an

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I picked the

r undercover infiltration mission three days ago. Physically healthy. No injuri

ive years. Ca

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d a blood panel and a note from the senior healer that said further psychological evaluation recommended, underlined, like they'd pressed

file was thin. I was the re

way things make sense when the person you love looks at you and says this is the only way and you believe them, beca

five ye

uched. Him standing in front of me in a jacket I'd never seen before, holding a phone that wasn't his real phone, already halfway into a person he wasn't. He kissed my forehead. Not my m

uietly doing the math on how long I could carry another person's w

again and that's the part I hated most.

ni at least four times. I drank it anyway because it was warm and my hands needed something to hold and the alternative was sitting

cing, the other half-asleep. A junior healer moving between rooms with a tablet tucked under his arm. The radio at the front desk on low, playing something with too muc

life sitting inside my skull like furniture in a house I'd been borrowi

he was

chest like a low hum for five years .. had been getting louder since yesterday. Since he actually c

y palm flat

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at the kitchen table at two in the morning when the memories got loud and his voice was so clear in the back of my head t

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at the door

man at the front

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bit nervous. He said i

him. I let the ai

im in,"

tablet and the look of someone who'd already had a long morning and

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toward me. "He's doing a round of meet-and-greets. Pack members he

nt cold in m

nd-greet,

e just wants to put name

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ck. Pack hall, third floor conference room." He scroll

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y feeling. Every quiet moment he'd let himself be a person instead of an Alpha. And tomorrow

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"I'll be the

the tab and I thought about nine o'clock and a third-floor conference room and the

someone who had ne

ll the things I couldn't say out loud. Like his name. Like the fact that I already knew exactly how he took his coffee and

w. Nine

w to walk into a room and meet Ca