"I locked my own father in a silver cage, but I never realized the real monster was standing right beside me the whole time."
James stood frozen in the burning corridor, his raw confession cutting straight through the roar of collapsing stone and blaring alarms.
"James, we have to move!" I screamed, grabbing his bleeding arm as smoke poured down from the shattered ceiling. "The whole estate is coming down!"
"Look at him, Elizabeth," James whispered, his golden eyes wide with a horrifying mixture of grief and pure, lethal rage.
Through the thick haze of dust, Madison stumbled backward over the debris, dropping his silver gun with a loud clatter. His hands were shaking uncontrollably, his face pale as a ghost as he stared at the flaming wreckage of the vault doors.
"I didn't have a choi
