"You can't be everywhere at once, Dom. You can't protect everyone from everything."
I wanted to believe her. I really did. But the burden of my failure was a physical thing, crushing me from the inside out. It's been two days now, and there was still no sign of Adrian. I was running out of options. I was running out of hope. I had to face the possibility that Adrian was dead, and if he was, I had to find out who was responsible. Before Jonathan Sandler took matters into his own hands. Before he started a war that would destroy us all.
I tugged my hair, pacing back and forth. Hailey walked towards me, and turned my shoulder, forcing me to look at her. The turmoil in my heart was overwhelming, a storm of fear, anger, and a deep seated guilt that I couldn't shake.
This was not how I envisi
