Echoes of His Confession

"Here, Mr. Thorne!" The sky was just beginning to lighten, and the dense fog hadn't fully cleared yet when Vaughn found them. "Dante!"

It wasn't until Vaughn and the bodyguards lifted Dante out of the water together that Clara saw what had been supporting him.

The broken tree root beneath him was jagged and uneven, stained with a dark red.

Her eyes fell on Dante's face, covered in blood, and Clara