Griffin and Cassian had Vesper pinned near the rise’s edge when Sloane and Dax finally arrived, but something in the confrontation’s energy had shifted, Vesper’s earlier cold composure now stripped away entirely, replaced by something raw and desperate that made Sloane’s stomach turn cold the moment she registered it.“You’re losing,” Griffin said, circling with Cassian in careful, coordinated formation. “Your coalition is fracturing. Silas’s revelation has cost you half your reinforcements. Whatever you intended with this assault, it’s failing.”“Then I finish it the only way left,” Vesper said, something manic now underlying his usual calculated control, “directly, without pretense of ritual or careful negotiation.”He lunged, not toward Griffin or Cassian, but past them entirely, toward Sloane with a speed that caught everyone off guard, understanding dawning across his face that this confrontation had stripped away every careful plan he’d built, leaving only raw, desperate force a
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