"Bring her too," Sean said, his eyes casting a long, dark shadow over the floor. "No one is exempt from what comes next."
He looked back at Sia one last time, his gaze possessing and cold, yet beneath it lay an unstable edge that terrified her more than the assassin’s blade ever could. He turned on his heel and swept out of the room, leaving his head of security to execute the absolute lockdown of the Neo-Veridia estate.
Sia stood alone in the center of her ruined room, listening to the alarm sirens beginning to blare across the distant corridors. The iron gates were closing, the heavy security shutters were dropping, and the gilded cage was officially sealed shut.
Down in the courtyard, the rain began to fall in heavy, rhythmic sheets, washing away the blood on the marble balcony,
