Chapter 217

Soren Lockwood stood in his Manhattan office, watching surveillance footage of Gideon talking to Beatrix, Dante, Linnea, and Octavia at the event, he saw the look of remorse on Gideon's face. His hands gripped the edge of his desk so tightly his knuckles turned white as he watched Gideon talk to them, and betray everything they had built together.

"Twenty years," Soren whispered to th