Chapter Fifteen: Salvation
Tom had strode out of the cave, roiling with fury and confusion, the relic forgotten in his hand. He didn’t care what happened to those men. They deserved what they got; for Liu. He was hurting most from Melissa’s betrayal.
The relic had worked. He couldn’t tell if she’d lied about the mirror in it—if it truly was a sequin. His theory of proximity of its components being the key to activating the relic, even if it was partially dismantled, held. He didn’t know whether he should be glad or annoyed about it having proven right.
Tom still didn’t know what to make of Melissa. He’d succeeded in closing off his heart to her when he’d looked into her eyes. Her fear of him had been unmistakable. They’d been so intimately linked then, he could almost read her mind. She
