|Xavier's POV|
I don't know how long I've been here. I don't know how far the darkness around me stretches. All I know is that I am tired of endlessly trying to will my body to wake up, but even then, nothing happens.
My breathing is ragged as my feet come to a stop and yet again, surrounding me is a deep abyss of darkness and nothing else.
I do remember now that I had been shot...by Niko of all people. How could I have ignored what he had been up to all this time? How could I have not seen this coming?
You took everything from me.
That’s what he said right before he pulled the trigger on me. But what did I take from him? He has been by my side for more than ten years now, even longer than Caige, and somehow, all this while he had been harbouring hatred against me, just waiting to
