Chapter 25: Traitor’s Bargain

Lila Voss stood on the abandoned pier, Crestfall’s foggy docks shrouded in mist, the air heavy with salt and decay. The pier’s rotting planks creaked under her boots, the distant wail of foghorns a grim echo of her racing heart. Nico Reyes’ message—Meet me alone. I’ll betray Kane—was a gamble, h...