KNOX’S POV
“I have served you for years.” Each word is measured, weighted. “I have given half my life to protecting you. I have sacrificed my time, my blood, my skin — every single time because I have an unbreaking devotion to you. I would rather stake myself through the heart and rip out my own organs than betray you, Knox. That is not who I am. That is not what I do.”
“That doesn’t answer the question.” I don’t blink. “Did you give those recordings to Logan?”
His gaze holds mine, unwavering.
“No.”
The word hangs between us. I search his face for any sign of deception, any flicker of guilt or hesitation.
There’s nothing. Just Nathaniel, the same man who’s stood beside me through every war and every loss and every dark night of my reign.
But something still feels wrong.
“Can I trus
