Bound To The Broken Alpha (Amy and Daniel) novel Chapter 524

Chapter 524 Hard To Tell

MARK

The room they placed me in wasn’t a cell, and that was the problem.

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Cells gave you clarity. You knew where you stood. This place was designed to make you doubt your position without ever saying it out loud. Clean furniture. Neutral walls.

A desk I wasn’t allowed to use and a window that showed just enough of the compound to remind me I was still inside it.

Restricted movement, they called it.

d it waiting for the blade.

on the edge of the chair

s work. Efficient. Imp

nce carried more w

had already testi timelines, assoc mattered. Th

This time

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1. up.

at the door. Northern security rotated guards every six hours. one spoke unless necessary. No insults. No intimidation. That

ing ever could.

mally. A “clarifying session,” they said. I answered questions about vals. I told the truth where it was harmless and stayed vague where it ked before.

he conversation.

away. Letting things wait was a small w

the notice was brief.

1. ol.

ed for secondary examination. Tribu

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hey had found something.

aced the room, slow and long by staying carefu

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eless. Panic made people careless. I had

at even by accident. That hurt more than anger

back then.

ire that didn’t require patience. Amy had always asked

d been tired of reassuring.

explained it.

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Chapter 524 Hard To Tell

Or at least, that’s what I had told myself.

The next morning, Cole escorted me personally. No restraints. No force. Just presence.

“Long process,” I said as we walked. “This trial.”

“Yes,” he replied.

“You think it’s necessary?” I asked.

“Yes,” he said again.

I stopped walking. “Do you?”

Cole turned to face me. “This isn’t about what I think, Mark.”

“Isn’t it?” I asked

“What i

ning security. You see what this is doing.”

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“A

venly, “is exposing things that should have been addressed years ago.”

North?” I pressed.

dapts,” he replied. “Stability built on

hearsed answer. Or a sincere one. Wit

Wing C was colder than the others. No

This wasn’t about optics. It was abo

seated across from three adjudicators

at bothered me more than their pres

Mark Halden,” the central adjudica

ring Amy Valen’s removal.”

nodded. “Understood.”

n’t stability.”

hard to tell.

1. re. In atmosphere. Fewer observers. More

lara. No Daniel. No Amy.

examination concerns your actions prior to and

You were engaged to A

The continued.

“Yes.”

You public

n was present during that announcement.”

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Chapter 524 Hard To Tell

“She was,” I said.

“And shortly after, Amy Valen was reassigned under Northern authority.”

“That decision wasn’t mine,” I said quickly.

Finished

“No,” the adjudicator agreed. “But your actions contributed to the conditions that made it possible.”

I said nothing.

They moved methodically. Communications. Meetings. Financial overlaps. Each question built on the last. No traps. No accusations. Just accumulation.

Then the central adjudicator asked, “Did you have prior knowledge of Elias’s involvement in Southern coordination?”

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