Play Thing Of The Enemy
I did not answer immediately, not because I didn’t want to but because I was fitting pieces together, forcing my mind ahead of the instinct to react blindly.
“Rome is compromised,” I said.
His expression sharpened instantly.
“Architect loyalists?”
“No.”
That word settled heavily between us.
Because if it wasn’t the Architect, then it was something worse, something we had not accounted for.
“Then who?” Luca asked.
I was already moving.
“Adrian.”
The name changed the air in the room.
Luca went still for a fraction of a second, then turned toward the table, grabbing his weapon, his phone, his jacket in one smooth motion. No wasted movement, no questions that did not matter.
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