Going Rogue

VANCE’S POV

“I have served you for years.” Each word is measured, weighted. “I have given half my life to protecting you. I have sacrificed my time, my blood, my skin — every single time because I have an unbreaking devotion to you. I would rather stake myself through the heart and rip out my own organs than betray you, Vance. That is not who I am. That is not what I do.”

“That doesn’t answer the