Ch. I Refuse to Be Your Luna 322 I Refuse to Be Your Luna 322

Chapter 322 The Memory They Stole 

Alpha Damian POV 

“It’s completing it.” 

96 

Funshed 

Rhys said the words twice, as if saying them again would make the screen easier to understand. 

I stood behind him while the scanner displayed the mark beneath Amara’s skin. 

Lines had spread across the monitor from the symbol on her body, joining the same points we had seen on the ancient map. Stonehedge. Dartwood. Northvale. Mooncrest. Hollow Ridge. Other territories we still could not name. 

Flourish remained beside Amara. 

Her hand was still resting near the mark, and both women looked shaken by what they had seen in the memory. I had watched Flourish come back from it pale and silent. Amara had not said much either. 

Rhys enlarged the image. 

“Wait.” 

His fingers moved across the keyboard. 

“What?” I asked. 

“The room in the memory.” 

Flourish looked at him. “You know it?” 

“Not yet.” He pulled up another file. “But the architecture matches something.” 

I moved closer. 

Rhys brought up an old Stonehedge facility map. Most of it was blacked out, sections marked as decommissioned. 

He compared the walls, door placements and corridor lengths from the memory with the archived layout. 

His expression changed. 

“I found it.” 

127 

10:00 Thu, Oct 8 

Charter 462 The Memory They Stole 

Flourish stepped forward. “Where?” 

“Under the old Stonehedge medical district.” 

The room went quiet. 

96 

I looked at the map. The facility had no current name. The records listed it as a closed clinical research center, shut down decades ago. 

“Research center?” I asked. 

Rhys shook his head. “That is what the public record says.” 

He opened another layer. 

The facility had once been connected to Stonehedge’s pack hospital by an underground medical passage. 

It contained examination rooms, blood storage, recovery wards and a secure section that had been removed from later maps. 

Flourish stared at the screen. 

“That room was there.” 

Amara nodded slowly. “Yes.” 

Rhys zoomed into the secure section. 

“There.” 

The room from the memory appeared on an old floor plan. 

Flourish’s breathing changed. 

I reached for her hand. 

She took it without looking away from the screen. 

“Why was it erased?” she asked. 

Rhys leaned back. “That is what I’m trying to find out.” 

I looked at him. 

“Can you recover the security records?” 

217 

10:00 Thu, Oct 8 

CHAOH JAN The Memory They Stole 

He hesitated. 

“Maybe. The facility was closed before most current F-Tech systems existed.” 

“F-Tech doesn’t need current systems.” 

Rhys understood immediately. 

I turned to Flourish. 

Her company had started as a financial resource, then become a communications network, a security provider and a tool for protecting packs. We had used it to trace money, monitor threats and secure routes. 

But this was different. 

If the enemy had erased pieces of Stonehedge history, we needed people who could recover information without relying on the same pack archives that had already been altered. 

“Get Cheryl and the archive team,” I said. 

Rhys nodded. 

96 

“I want every surviving record connected to that facility. Security logs, staff lists, access cards, medical records, maintenance reports, vehicle entries. Anything that survived.” 

“Some of those records may be protected by Stonehedge authority.” 

“Then use the legal access F-Tech already has.” 

Rhys gave me a brief look. “Eugene will enjoy that.” 

“I don’t care if he enjoys it.” 

Flourish finally looked at me. 

“You want F-Tech investigating Stonehedge?” 

“I want F-Tech investigating what Stonehedge hid.” 

That distinction mattered. 

Her company had the people and systems to do it. More importantly, its servers were separate from the old pack archives. 

Whoever had removed those records years ago could not simply reach into F-Tech and erase them again. 

3/7 

10:00 Thu, Oct 8 

Carter 322 The Mepiary They Stole 

Rhys was already making calls. 

༢(6 

96 

fanrhed 

Within minutes, Cheryl joined us through the secure conference line. She listened while Rhys explained what we had found. 

“Start with the facility name and its old registration number,” I said. “Then search every F-Tech database that could have touched Stonehedge infrastructure.” 

Cheryl nodded. “I’ll need permission to access some historical contracts.” 

“You have it.” 

“And if those contracts involve private pack records?” 

“Flag them. Don’t delete anything. Don’t alter anything.” 

Her expression sharpened. “Understood.” 

The work began. 

F-Tech’s archive team pulled records from old servers while Rhys built a digital copy of the facility’s known layout. 

Cheryl contacted former contractors. Eugene was brought in to clear legal barriers. 

I watched the screens fill with names. 

Some records were complete. Others had missing years. 

One security contractor had no employee list after a certain date. A maintenance company had invoices but no service reports. 

The facility’s vehicle log ended three months before the official closure. 

Too many gaps. 

Flourish stood beside me. 

“Someone did this.” 

I nodded. 

“More than one person, probably.” 

Amara sat across the room with one of the healers. Her wolf had remained alert since the memory surfaced, ears lifting whenever Rhys opened another file. 

4/7 

10:00 Thu, Oct 8 

Chapter 12 The Memory They Stole 

Then Rhys stopped typing. 

“I found a security backup.” 

Everyone turned. 

: 

ร 

96 

Finished 

“Where?” I asked. 

“F-Tech acquired the contractor’s remaining servers six years ago after the company folded. Nobody knew this facility was among the archived sites.” 

“Can you open it?” 

“I can try.” 

The screen went black for several seconds. 

Then an old security interface appeared. Timestamped footage filled the monitor. 

A corridor. 

The same corridor from Amara and Flourish’s memory. 

Flourish moved closer. 

“That is it.” 

Rhys advanced through the footage. 

A guard walked past. 

Then another. 

A medical worker entered the room. 

Rhys stopped the recording. 

“Look at the date.” 

I read it. 

The date was years before the official record said Amara had disappeared. 

Flourish stared at the screen. 

Rhys opened another camera angle. This one showed two children being led through the 

5/7 

10:00 Thu, Oct 8 

Chaplet 322 The Memory They Stole 

corridor. 

Both were small. Both had dark hair. 

One was Flourish. 

The other was Amara. 

I felt my jaw tighten. The facility had not merely treated them. 

It had recorded them. 

នគ 

96 

Finished 

I looked at the frozen image again. Flourish had been young to understand what those cameras 

meant. 

Amara had been younger. Whatever happened after that had been hidden behind locked files, records and missing years, while everyone around them carried on as if nothing had happened. 

Rhys searched deeper. 

“There are more files.” 

He opened a personnel record. 

Then another. 

Names appeared beside access times, but several entries had been manually removed. 

“Someone knew this backup existed,” I said. 

Rhys nodded. 

“And they tried to erase it.” 

Flourish looked at the screen for a long moment. 

“Then find out who had access.” 

Rhys’s hands returned to the keyboard. 

This time, none of us spoke. The investigation was no longer about an old memory. 

It was about proving what had happened to two children inside a facility Stonehedge had spent years pretending never existed. 

617 

10:00 Thu, Oct 8 

Retine To Be Your Luna