Before love Lies
And as the car disappeared into the night, one certainty settled in with cold clarity:
The next time the League tried to get close to me, they wouldn’t use trust.
They would use war.
Michelle’s POV
Watching the Bentley disappear down the street felt like watching the last piece of my life tear itself loose.
The taillights vanished into the city, swallowed by motion and distance, and with them went the man I was never supposed to fall in love with.
John finally knows, I thought bitterly. Of course he does.