— CASSIAN |
We made it halfway through the tunnels before I heard them.
Footsteps. Behind us. Multiple.
They'd found the passage.
Of course they had.
My mother knew this house as well as I did. Knew every escape route. Every hiding place. Every weakness.
She'd trained me.
Now she was hunting me.
"Cassian," Mara whispered. "They're coming."
"I know."
"What do we do?"
I pulled her into an alcove. Pressed her against the wall. Covered her mouth with my hand when she started to speak.
The footsteps grew closer.
Voices. Speaking in Russian and English. My mother's loyalists mixed with Vincenzo's crew.
She'd allied with our enemies.
To kill me.
To kill us.
The betrayal should've hurt.
It didn't.
Because I'd already lost her the moment I learned what she'd done to Sophia.
She
