Play Thing Of The Enemy
His eyes found me like they were reading measurements on a ledger, not gauging judgment.
“You can put the gun down, Damian,” he said. “You won’t need it.”
Kai’s recorder clicked on. The red light blinked slowly and steadily between us. Behind her, Elena watched the monitor lines that mapped Adrian’s pulse, respiration, micro-muscle shifts, not one deviation, he wasn’t bluffing.
“Start talking,” I told him. I kept my voice low, even. Every word had to count.
“You thought the Consortium was the problem,” he began. “They were the mask, The real structure is older—centuries older and they call themselves The Architect.”
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