The rooftop wasn’t just a place of reckoning anymore.
It was the first loose thread in a web Selene never meant to get tangled in. A knot she hadn’t even known existed, until now.
Her breathing came shallow and fast, heart pounding like war drums beneath her ribs, but somehow her hands stayed steady. She didn’t know how. Maybe it was adrenaline. Maybe it was pure rage holding her together.
Darius was a liar.
But that wasn’t even the worst part.
The worst part was knowing he might’ve been lying to himself the whole damn time. And that kind of lie? The kind you tell yourself just to sleep at night? That was the kind that ruined people.
The man moaned on the ground - his former associate, someone she once trusted - looked as if he was trying to wake up from a bad dream. Cam was crouched
