No one expected Matthew Powell to speak. For a heartbeat, every eye in the Spire of The Sky Citadel turned toward him, a collective breath held in the thin, high-altitude air.
What was he doing? Was the "madman" finally having a total mental break?
Hunter Bailey was already at the elevator. The threat from the capital had worked; the "Underground Emperor" had pulled his son back from the brink. The crisis was over. All Matthew had to do was let them leave, and he could go back to his champagne and his bride. But here he was, throwing a match into a powder keg.
To the gathered elite of Valor City, Matthew looked like a fool—a suicidal "well-frog" who didn't understand that Hunter was only leaving as a favor to the Wainwright family.
"Shut up, you i***t!" Sydney Katic Lacy hissed from th
