Unspoken Surrender

He stared at her without blinking, a storm gathered behind those obsidian eyes. “For your brother,” he asked, voice gravel-soft yet unyielding, “would you truly sacrifice everything?”

Sloane met that storm straight on, chin lifted, the city’s neon rippling like water in her eyes, but her posture rooted as an oak. “For Kieran, yes, I’d do almost anything. But if it endangers my own life or tramples