The muzzle of Razack’s gun was a cold, black eye staring directly at my soul. For a second, the world stopped. The sirens of the Mainframe were screaming, the walls were crumbling, and the lion was roaring behind me, but all I could see was the man I had trusted the man who had held me in the dark preparing to pull the trigger.
"Do it," the Matriarch hissed from behind him, her voice like a snake sliding over glass. "Kill the asset, Razack. End the glitch."
Razack’s hand didn't shake. His eyes were flat, dead, like two pieces of flint. But then, Sasha’s small hand tightened around my fingers.
"Daddy?" Sasha whispered, looking past me toward the man tied in the cables.
The man in the cables, the one with the Ministry pin, let out a strangled cry. "Razack, don't you dare! You know who sh
