Chapter 70
Jarvis hung suspended in the freezing air, his pulse thundering against the invisible grip on his throat. He looked at the hovering steel, then at Wyatt’s blackened eyes, and finally at the radiant, terrifying void that was Rylee. He began to weigh the scales of his life, but the math was simple: Adeline had left him to die, and the people in this room were currently killing him. He had everything to lose here and nothing left to gain from a mistress who had already vanished over the horizon.
He opened his mouth to save himself, his lips trembling as he prepared to trade Adeline’s head for his own life. But as he reached for the information, he realized a terrifying reality—he didn’t have an answer.
“I...” he croaked, his voice cracking with a sudden, genuine realization of h
