KERES POV
I hated him for making us leave.
I hated Thane with my whole soul. A feeling so hot and ugly it tasted like blood in my mouth, even while every part of me knew he had been right.
That was the worst part.
If he had been wrong, I could have turned back.
I could have ignored his command. He was the oldest, sure, but I was the wild card.
I’d never been able to follow an order in my entire life.
Today though, I saw the desperation in my brother’s eyes and I knew. We had no chance. We had to do the only thing we’d never been able to do. Leave one of us behind.
If he had been doing that self-sacrificing bullshit he wore around like a second skin, I could have grabbed him by the throat, dragged him with us and told him to go f**k himself later.
But he had looked at us from the
