KNOX’S POV
The thing about self-destruction is that it requires commitment. You can’t half-arse it.
You can’t run toward the fire and then flinch at the heat — you have to walk in and let it take you, and you have to do it with enough conviction that the people watching think it was intentional.
A choice. A power move.
The Lycan King, choosing Switzerland with the easy nonchalance of a man who has somewhere important to be, rather than the truth, which is that I strapped myself into a metal tube hurtling toward the one place on earth that could finish the job Ember started this morning.
Because I am a coward, and between confronting the truth of her words and running, I choose running.
I always choose running.
Rayana is across the aisle and she hasn’t spoken in two hours, which is a
