Chapter 252

GIDEON

Declan didn’t raise his voice when the confirmation came.

He didn’t need to.

The room had already gone still—the kind of stillness that only happens when everyone present knows they’re standing on the edge of something irreversible.

“It wasn’t Corbin,” Declan said, eyes fixed on the screen in front of him. “It was the other one. His partner.”

Marco.

The name settled like grit between