Chapter Seventy-One
Blade’s pov
I couldn’t sit still. The silence of the room was too loud, and the image of Skyler’s tear-streaked face burned behind my eyelids every time I tried to close them. After Lena had left, I didn’t sleep. I just paced, feeling like a trapped animal, until the frustration became too much to handle. I had to do something. I had to be a soldier again, because being a man was just too painful.
I remembered something Stone had said during a briefing a few days back. He’d mentioned a secondary armory on the east ridge—a small, hidden cache tucked away in an old shipping warehouse. It was lightly guarded and far enough from the main compound that no one would be patrolling it at this hour. It wasn't the main vault, but it was valuable enough to hurt. I walked into t
