Tatiana POV | “The Return Debt”

“Sometimes you don’t betray them for revenge. You betray them because they were never meant to win.”

The last thing I remembered before the world turned black was the smell of fire and Charles’s voice—sharp, cruel, certain.

Then, I woke to the sound of water and boots. My men’s boots.

I hadn’t seen them in months, not since I’d sent them underground with the failsafe orders. They pulled me from the water like a relic, half-conscious, bleeding, ...