Chapter 51Charlie gaped at Alex. She couldn't believe what she'd heard him say, and she was struggling to wrap her head around the implications.
"You promised you'd kill yourself," continued Alex. "If you try to back out now, those people will die in your place."
"Alex?" She almost asked him what he was doing there, but the answer seemed obvious...if hard to accept. He looked like the same scrawny victim she'd helped save from Gantry and Devon, the same off-kilter kid they called "Animal." He was harmless, a friend, a fellow member of Nil...
Though now, seeing him here, put a new perspective on that membership. It put a whole new spin on what had happened to Nil.
"You're the one," she said. "You betrayed Nil."
Alex scrubbed his left hand through his shock of wild black hair. "
