Chapter 27“You appreciate why she did what she did.”
“Snake, do be quiet. I’m not an idiot.” The chair creaked under him as Axel shifted, trying to get comfortable and to enjoy the view of the manicured lawn. Heofon. An Earthlike planet so-called from old variations of the word heaven, so Sela claimed, and while certainly that for some, this place meant little to Axel still struggling to care, unable to shake his exhaustion. Following his panic attack, he remembered little except waking two days later on the way here, bathed, shaved, hair trimmed. Lightly sedated, Snake claimed, Axel failing to conjure up the requisite anger despite feeling it appropriate.
“I should have trusted her. Should have known she had a reason.”
“You did, on some level.”
Did he? He’d been so set on revenge, he’
