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It was as comforting as it was surreal.
And then she lifted her head and looked up at me, urgency bleeding from her. “I can’t see a way around it. You need to warn Aurora about the Heretics and their real role in all of this.”
“I do that and it could unravel everything.”
“There’s not much choice anymore.”
“It’s time to throw them to the wolves.”
She started and drew back from me. “You’re gonna push Carson in their direction?
“After what they pulled that night of the gala, it changes things. They came far too close to my daughter. That was supposed to be off the table. The terms of our deal are now void.”
“You do that and you could lose Aurora forever if she finds out.”
“Then she won’t find out.”
“This is dangerous.”
“Our whole existence is dangerous.”
“You know what I mean.”
“Handing the Heretics over is a tactical decision that will leave the way open for us to kill two birds with one stone, take both enemies in one shot, Liv.”
“It’s revenge,” she countered.
“It’s justice.”
“Lan—”
“This is what needs to be done to protect us all, to fucking well free us all. Don’t you want to recover what we’ve lost, to step back into the world? To get our lives back?”
“Of course, I do. I just don’t want us becoming the very monsters we’re trying to fight.”
“Like I said, this is justice. And it’s as simple and as complicated as that.”
“Their lives for ours?”
Our eyes locked.
“It’s the only way.”
I saw her move to argue, only to pull up short.
No words came out.
Because she knew, just as well as I did, that this was what needed to be done.
They’d brought it here.
And I would run with it.
There was no more room for mercy.
She took a moment, then sighed all too heavily, and shifted focus, asking me, “How is Aurora settling into being here? Was she overjoyed to lay eyes on you again?”
“She hasn’t seen me yet.”
