Chapter 181

{Harper's POV}

We stayed on the ground for a while, all three of us, the tension in the room dropping just enough to breathe in without it hurting.

Viktor Sokolov lay a few feet away. Still. Not breathing. Dead.

I still couldn't fully process that. My brain kept circling back to it like it needed the repetition to make the fact stick — dead, actually *dead* — because thirty seconds ago he'd been s