Chapter 14Malik took a deep breath. This was not how he’d dreamed his life would go. After years of being locked up in the basement, only to come out when he was gonna do some mission, he’d always dreamed about the day he would be free to do what he wanted. Not what Master wanted.
It had always been far-fetched; he’d never truly believed he ever would leave the basement and not come back. He’d watched Cassius, certain it was his fate. Year in and year out, he’d serve his master, risking his life and enduring his punishments, until he one day was too old to do so. He’d be trapped in a cell, starving and weak, and he’d watch the continuing abuse without being able to do anything about it.
Then Agent Snow had walked in—a small human with no sense of what was best for him. A man who’d treate
