{ "The total act of betrayal is broken trust."}
"You're quiet," Wave said beside me, not even looking my way, and I knew he sensed the turmoil in my heart about everything that had been happening for the past two days.
"I'm thinking," I replied, adjusting the strap on my shoulder, fingers twitching with the need to shift. "Trying to make peace with what we're about to do."
"You never make peace, Spark," he said. "You go to war. Then make sense of the wreckage later."
I let out a dry laugh. "You sound like my father."
Commander Belle glanced over her shoulder, her pace sharp and certain. "Save the therapy for after the cell doors close. They're waiting."
