CHAPTER 56
As days passed, Finn had recovered significantly, though he was still confined to the recovery room and healing. He lay there, his gaze fixed on Ryle, who was now routinely stationed inside his room rather than just the corridor. Finn’s expression was one of deep uncertainty as he processed the information Ryle had recently delivered.
Ryle, surprisingly, had been completely honest, detailing everything: how he had requested Lauren be assigned to their first mission, and how he had then, in Ryle’s own cold view, betrayed Finn through his actions and subsequent silence.
Finn lay propped up in the recovery bed, the morning light soft on the sterile sheets. He had heard Ryle’s confession—a detailed, clinical breakdown of his own tactical failings and the subsequent betrayal invol
