I nod. “But taking a third run on a third truck? Knox is expecting it. He and that fucker Vane are going to have heavily armed escorts, route changes, surveillance... it’s a trap waiting to spring. Stealing two shipments was plenty." She stops, taking a sharp breath, her fingers tightening around her mug until her knuckles turn white. "But I can't say that to him," she says quietly, looking down at her coffee. "I can't say a word of that to Mayhem. At least not right now." "Because he'd see it as taking Cobra's side?" "Because he'd see it as a lack of faith in him," Jade corrects softly, her voice laced with deep, unconditional love and a profound frustration. "You know how he is, Zara. I love that man more than anything in this world. I love him more than my own life.” “I know." “B

