...... Kol ..... "Please, don't. Please," Aaron begged on his knees, his voice quivering with desperation. "I told you everything I know," he said, and my gaze traveled downward to a dark stain spreading beneath the chair he was tied to. He was peeing himself, a pitiable display of fear that tugged at my heart, as I was once in his shoes. But there was no room for that. He brought this onto himself, if he had just recognized his situation, and realized he had no choice but to tell us what we wanted to know, it would have been easier for him. Lazlo's low growl rumbled in the tense air, his face inches from Aaron's as he demanded to know the whereabouts of Linden and Priya, his patience exhausted. Aaron’s screams of terror filled the room as he insisted he didn’t know where they were or

