Not everyone else.
Me.
Her voice softens slightly.
“If we do this… Wu’s going to come after you hardest.”
I step closer immediately.
“Good.”
She shakes her head.
“No, Clay, you don’t understand—”
“I understand enough.”
And I do.
Wu wants leverage.
He wants Hannah destabilized emotionally.
That means I became a target the second I mattered to her.
Too late now.
Not walking away.
Not happening.
I step directly in front of her while gunfire continues outside the estate.
Rain.
Chaos.
War.
Doesn’t matter.
“Hannah.”
Her eyes lock onto mine instantly.
“You don’t fight this alone anymore.”
Emotion flickers hard across her face.
Dangerous emotion.
The kind both of us are trying very hard not to talk about until this is over.
Mason suddenly interrupts:
“Uh… hate to ruin the emotional breakthrough, but we’ve got incoming SUVs.”
Perfect timing.
