Chapter 110

Cassian’s POVThe record kept spinning.The same song. The same scratch at the same place, like time itself had been caught in a loop it didn’t know how to escape. Denzel stood near the turntable now, one hand resting on the cabinet like this was his living room and not the house Nolan and I had bled to build.Lilith was between us.That alone was enough to keep me breathing evenly, to keep my hands steady at my sides instead of doing what every instinct screamed at me to do.Denzel’s smile was gone.“You really thought I wouldn’t come for answers,” he said, voice sharp with fury now, stripped of its performative warmth. “After everything I did for you both? The sacrifices? And what did you both do to me?!”Nolan didn’t respond. He never did when Denzel was like this. Silence had always been Nolan’s way of drawing lines.I spoke instead. “You didn’t do what you think you did.”Denzel’s eyes snapped to me. “I fucking took you off the streets.”And just like that….I wasn’t in the house

Chapter 111

Lilith’s POVEverything happened at once.One second there was sound….gunfire colliding, glass shattering, the record skipping like a broken heartbeat and the next second there was only chaos. Nolan moved before I even understood what Denzel was doing. His body stepped in front of mine, broad and unthinking, like instinct itself had taken control.The impact was loud.Too loud.Nolan gasped, the sound sharp and wrong, and then he was falling.“Nolan!” I screamed.I caught him, or tried to. His weight crashed into me, knocking the breath from my lungs as we hit the floor together. Warmth spread across my hands, soaking into my clothes, and I knew….before I saw it….that he had been hit.Cassian’s gun fired almost simultaneously.I heard it, but I didn’t see it. I was too busy holding Nolan, too busy pressing my hands against his chest where blood was already blooming dark and fast. Denzel staggered backward in my peripheral vision, shock frozen on his face, and then he dropped….hard, fi

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