The night after the fall of Camilla Devine was quite eerily so. The adrenaline from the battle had worn off, but the weight of everything that had happened still hung heavy in the air. Lysander and his team had spent the day cleaning up the remnants of the Syndicate’s final hold, clearing out the last traces of the criminal empire that had once ruled the city with an iron fist.

But as the team took their well-earned rest, Lysander and Kylie stood on the balcony of their temporary ...