Chapter Eleven
The rest of the limo ride, I pillage the snack bar and digest the morsels along with the bannik’s revelations.
By the time we park next to Nero’s building, I decide that nothing is all that different after everything’s said and done.
Yes, Nero is a manipulative bastard, but I already knew that. And obviously, the bannik wanted to be free. Can I really hold that against him?
The one interesting tidbit about this is that Nero now has access to another seer—meaning he shouldn’t need me as much.
Yet he shielded me with his body.
Why did he do that? Is there some small speck of goodness in him?
The door opens up, and I stare at my boss as though for the first time.
“We’re here,” he says, offering me his hand.
Ignoring it, I climb out of the limo on my own.
Nero shrugs a
