9
Leo
Seeing a knife at Trinity’s neck was the scariest thing I’d ever seen. Not a trio of Hive with weapons beyond our technology. Not being on a shuttle that had been hit by Hive fire and the planet’s surface looming too fast. Nothing compared to seeing my mate in mortal danger.
I should have kept Zel alive. Should have kept him breathing so we could interrogate him. Learn what he knew. Trinity had said he hadn’t acted alone. He was a mere pawn. I had to wonder even if we’d ripped his fingernails off if he’d say the name of his master. I had to wonder if he even knew who it really was. He was a pawn and had been used.
Discarded.
But that didn’t matter. Not now. Only Trinity mattered. She might think otherwise, worry for her mother’s life—wherever the f**k she was—and the safety of h
