RIKA
I didn't want to wake up. The darkness was comfortable, safe, quiet. Better than facing what I'd done, what I'd destroyed with my own stupid choices.
Yeah, I literally caused this entire disaster. Every single piece of it traced back to me spilling our plans to Ronan like some pathetic coward.
The thought of them hurting Cade, of Sloane being drowned because I kept silent, had shattered any resistance I had left. I'd told him everything. The documents we'd compiled about his father, about his past crimes. The trackers we'd planted on his men, the locations we'd narrowed down. Every weakness we thought we'd found, every strategy we'd planned to use against him.
Ronan had listened carefully, asking clarifying questions, making sure I wasn't lying. When he seemed satisfied, when he
