I throw my leg over it and march down the tarmac. I don’t expect the aircraft to miraculously materialize out of thin air, but I’d like to case out the area to make sure we’re alone.
Where the hell is Evlynne?
And if this is a trap, where’s Command?
I poke her mind again. Then I poke again. And again. And just when I think she’s going to keep ignoring me, she lets me link.
“I’m sorry.”
Those simple words hang heavy with regret.
“What do you mean you’re sorry? Where the fuck are you?”
“I had no choice.”
Her voice trembles, and in that moment, I know exactly what she’s done.
Horror shoots through me.“It was you.Youdisclosed the location of Bramble?”
“I had to.”
“You didn’t have to do a godfucking thing, Evlynne.”I keep my back to the bike so Poppy can’t see the rage twisting my features.“You sold us out!”
“I did what I could to help you,”she says weakly.“I didn’t tell him about the secondary escape hatches.”
“Him?”A cold shiver runs up my spine.“Do you mean Travis Redden?”
There’s a pause.“Yes.”
“You’re working with Travis? Why the hell would you do that?”
“It was your idea.”
My jaw drops. I didn’t expect a betrayal from Evlynne of all people. The most loyal Mod I’ve ever known. A Severnist. And now she’s claimingI’mthe one who precipitated it?
Screw that. I refuse to own this.
“It wasn’t my idea for you to betray your own people. Fiona isdead—”
“Oh shit.”
“—so tell me, how could I have possibly inspired this ultimate fucking betrayal, Evlynne?”
“You told me to reach out to Fisher’s father.”
Chapter 55
And I thought I was done being shocked to the bone tonight.
“W-what?”I stammer. For a moment, the whole world seems to fray at the edges. Nothing makes sense in my own brain.“Travis Redden is your son’s father?”
“Yes.”
“Wren?” Poppy calls uncertainly.
“Give me a second,” I say, my tone sharper than I intend.
My mind is racing.Traviswas the “piss-vein” Evlynne was telling me about that day on the Ledge?
