I remember everything."
Sonia's words hung in the air between them as the Genesis system hummed to life. The blue glow from the console illuminated the tears streaming down her face, casting shadows across features now animated with painful recognition.
Alex's heart thundered in his chest. "What do you remember?" he asked, his voice barely audible over the system's activation sequence.
Sonia's eyes—eyes that had looked at him with professional distance for weeks—now blazed with an intensity that stole his breath.
"Us," she whispered. "I remember us."
The console beeped urgently—forty-five seconds to deployment. Above them, the sounds of gunfire had ceased, leaving an ominous silence.
"Carlos recruited me some years ago," Sonia continued, her fingers moving across the interface with p
