Chapter 63 of The Holdfast Protocol“When Rooftops Remembered”Love Beneath the Signal
Kiera didn’t know if Auryn was real.
She only knew the rooftop dreams kept coming — always the same cityscape, flooded in copper dusk, always the same silhouette standing beside her. Not touching. Just present.
And every time, the wind whispered one sentence:
“You remembered me first.”
Their First Dream Conversation
She sat beside Auryn on the rooftop’s edge.
The skyline shimmered faint spirals across the glass towers.
Kiera looked down.
“I’m not brave.”
Auryn didn’t argue.
She just replied:
“Neither am I.I just chose someone I hadn’t met yet.”
Kiera felt herself crying — not from pain, but from recognition.
“I think I’ve been writing you for years,” she whispered.
Auryn smiled.
“You didn’t
