THANE POV
*TRIGGER WARNING: GORE AND HORROR*
Fuck.
If Perse had been there, really there, she would have already hijacked this computer, stolen every file in the building, found the director’s favorite breakfast cereal, and built us a revenge plan detailed enough to last the next lifetime.
But she was not here.
She needed to rest. To find her strength again. To come back to herself piece by piece, instead of dragging a ruined body forward because the rest of us had failed to keep her safe in the first place.
The thought tried to sink its teeth into me.
I let it bite.
Then I pushed it down.
I had done enough standing still inside my own guilt.
Aiden stepped closer to the computer, eyes scanning the screen over the doctor’s shoulder. “Search recent transfers.”
“I don’t have autho
