Sophia All the blood in the world. I don’t remember leaving the room. One second I was staring at Benjamin like he’d slapped me, and the next, I was in the elevator, fingers trembling over the buttons like they didn’t remember how to move. My chest felt hollow and burning like something had been scooped out of me. Like something vital. My hands shook so badly that I almost dropped my phone. I didn’t even know what I was trying to do. Call someone? Call Ricci? No. No. There was no time. I felt it in my gut like a scream trying to claw its way out. She was going to kill him. Not with her hands. That would be too clean. Too simple. Sara—or Adelina or whoever the hell she really was—she would bury him in blood and data. I pressed against the back door of the mansion and slipped in throu

