*Lila’s POV*

“Mercy!”

“Just tell me what I want to know already! Then you can have your mercy!” I shouted.

“Lila, we need him alive,” Leo coaxed.

I growled. “Rats like him know when to jump ship, Leo.”

I couldn’t say that this was a situation I had ever found myself in before. As a journalist, I prided myself on integrity. I might’ve pried into topics before, fished for more information and asked sensitive questions, but ...