Cyran POV

The words just tumbled out of his mouth seeing Lilia smile at him, and hearing her gentle words before that. She willingly sat at the same table with him and shared ideas about how to defeat the man they both hated.

But that was not why he impulsively asked to talk to her when he should have known better–when he had the “DON’T” command from Jiro on a piece of paper that he’d signed.

Spending last night lying in Naomi’s arms, feeling sick over the way ...