KADE
I went back to that room with a plan but not to kill him. Not yet. Killing Ronan right now would be too easy, too clean, too much like mercy. What I wanted was information. Every secret he'd buried, every alliance he'd built behind my back, every move he'd made while I was busy being his biggest fool. I wanted all of it pulled out of him slowly, painfully, the way you pull a splinter from deep skin.
I wanted him to feel every second of it.
The corridor leading to the interrogation room was dark except for the single light strip above the door. My boots were quiet against the floor. I still hadn't changed from earlier, wearing the same black cargo pants and dark jacket from when I brought him in, dried blood on my knuckles, my jaw still tight from everything the drive back had dredg
