Kael
David didn’t resist.
That almost irritated me more than if he had.
I cuffed him myself.
The guards stood ready, but I stepped in first. Metal closed around his wrists with a sharp click that echoed too loudly in the sterile quiet of the lab.
Nora had already stepped back. Staff pretended to busy themselves with paperwork they weren’t reading.
No one spoke.
“Move,” I told him.
He obeyed.
We escorted him through the main corridor of the genetics wing, past glass offices and fluorescent lights that suddenly felt harsher than before. Every footstep sounded exposed. Guilty.
David cleared his throat. “I didn’t mean for it to go this far.”
I didn’t slow down.
“It went exactly as far as you helped it,” I replied.
We exited through the secured side door where two additional guards
