KNOX’S POV
The promise in it is so calm and so menacing that Nathaniel actually lets go.
He takes a deliberate step back, looking at me with the expression of a man who has completely run out of approaches.
I cross the room and drop to one knee right in his line of sight. Dead centre. Eye level.
I put myself close enough that turning away means moving Gale’s body, anchoring Logan exactly where I want him.
I keep my hands entirely to myself. I keep my voice completely level.
“I need the location and the passcode. Give me those, and you walk out of here. Same deal as the warehouse—safe passage, a new identity, a complete disappearance. We guarantee absolute distance. A clean slate. Logan Reeves ceases to exist.”
Logan looks up from Gale’s body. The vacancy in his expression shatters,
