Chapter 227: No more Innocence Left

RILEY

The small vial felt impossibly heavy in my palm as I emerged from Andy's cell, its contents seeming to pulse with the weight of what it had cost me to obtain it. The antidote that would save Marcus and Zade's lives - purchased with the destruction of whatever fragile peace I'd managed to find in the wreckage of my world.

"Riley?" Lumina's voice seemed to come from very far away, though she was standing right beside me. "What did she tell you?"

I couldn't look at her. Couldn't look at any of them. If I met their eyes now, they would see everything...