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Who would be there at his side no matter what. Or throwing herself between him and danger because he mattered to her. His life held value to Gemma, just like all the other Rogues she'd taken into her heart and vowed to protect.
Everything he'd tried to hold on to—family, brotherhood, a sense of belonging, a reason to fight—could be found in his love for Gemma.
And as Silas tried to speak through a paralyzed throat, his fingers twitching, Obsidian stepped back. There was nothing more to say. He finally knew the truth.
He was done.
Or no.... Just one more thing left to do to finally cut all ties.
"You'd be wise to avoid returning to the Core tonight," he murmured, as he walked away. "Consider your life my last gift to you, for all I thought we shared. I hope it gives you cold comfort when you're all alone."
* * *
Silas crawledonto his hands and knees long minutes after Obsidian had left, his fingers shaking as he lit his cheroot.
Bloody ruttin' hell. He couldn't help feeling as though he'd stared death in the face and somehow survived.
He should have been kissing the bloody ground beneath him, but there was a hollow pit within him. A horrible, empty feeling, as though he'd done the wrong thing and lost the one person who mattered most to him in this world.
"What the fuck was I s'posed to do?" Smoke spilled from his pursed lips. "They would have killed him."
The second Obsidian set eyes on Hollis Beechworth his brother had begun to wear a target on his back. Ghost didn't believe in betrayal unless he was the one doing it. And they'd all seen the way Obsidian looked at her.
Sooner or later, he would have broken faith with them.
Unless they somehow severed the growing bond between Obsidian and Hollis.
"They would have killedmeif I didn't do as commanded," he said, but there was an ugly truth there he didn't like to stare in the eye.
"You value your own skin before mine...."
I set the fire.
I set this all into play.
I convinced him he could trust Dr. Richter and the neural device.
I deserve to have him look at me like that.
And now he'd lost the one brother he truly had, and he was in this muck up to his eyeballs with no way out.Sink or swim, Silas's mam had always said, but he couldn't even see the shore anymore.
Or could he?
The Core.
Obsidian was going to burn it.
But there was just one thing Obsidian didn't know.
Ghost wasn't alone.
And he'd been expecting the attack.
Fuck.
Chapter 30
Dawn silvered the skies.
