| Taking Ownership

𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐇𝐎𝐍𝐘

Lucian kept his gaze locked on mine. "If you want answers, I'm afraid you don't have a choice."

"No." I mauled my hand through my hair, feeling like I could pull every last strand out of my fucking skull. "There's just no way. Maybe Daniel is right. Maybe we should take a step back and wait for things to unfold."

"After that letter we got, do you think we have time to stand back and wait for shit to unfold?"

My little cousin might be a rebel and trigger-happy — and I might have almost kicked his nosy fucking ass — but he was right. We needed to make sure our defenses were up. Even though we still had no idea who we were up against, and what kind of game they were playing, we needed to be ready. The sooner we found out what the fuck was going on, or at least who we were up against, the better we could prepare ourselves.