The room fell silent again.
And suddenly Flick’s father made perfect sense.
The fear.
The paranoia.
The hidden evidence.
He discovered something enormous.
And it got him killed.
Flick’s voice shook beside me.
“You think Mercer murdered my father?”
Rook didn’t answer immediately.
That silence was answer enough.
My hand tightened instinctively against Flick’s back.
She leaned into me slightly.
Tiny movement.
But it nearly destroyed me anyway.
Because after sixteen years apart?—
she still trusted me when she was afraid.
Rook closed the folder slowly.
Then looked directly at me.
“Mercer knows one thing about you, Blaze.”
I held his gaze.
“What?”
Rook’s expression hardened.
“He knows you’d burn the world down for her.”
The room went quiet.
Because everybody knew it was true.
Then Rook delivered the line that changed everything again:
“So Shadow Division is going to make sure you don’t have to.”
45
FELICITY
