Three days earlier, Marcus had been sitting in a motel room outside of Baltimore, staring at his encrypted laptop screen and trying to find the courage to send the message that would destroy his life. The intelligence files about Montana lay open beside him—page after page of documentation about industrial-scale spiritual murder disguised as scientific research.
He'd known this moment would come eventually. Two years of watching Luna fight for justice while he betrayed her trust had created a fault line in his soul that grew wider with each passing day. But it wasn't guilt alone that drove him to this desperate choice.
It was love.
Not the manipulative emotion that the Guild had cultivated in him to serve their purposes, but the genuine, terrifying, overwhelming love that had grown desp
