Escan's POV
Her footsteps faded up the stairs, yet each one hammered against my chest like a drum promising doom. She threatened him in front of me. That was how tired she was of it.
Which meant this wasn’t the first time. So she needed witnesses.
My eyes shifted to Edward, who had spared us both any more excuses.
Locking her out in the cold when he specifically knew of her low tolerance to it?
“You knowingly endangered a member of your unit.”
His eyes widened, raised to meet mine.
"S-Sir Escan…” he looked away. “I was wrong…"
Just wrong?
“Wrong is forgetting an order. Wrong is misreading a map.” I left my clenched fists behind me. "You knowingly left a member of your unit outside in conditions you knew she couldn't tolerate.”
His shoulders stiffened.
“You didn't make a mis
