Chapter 53

VANCE

I shouldn’t be here.

Damn it.

Viktor’s pulling in, headlights slicing through the dark, and my chest’s already tight.

I’m no fucking coward, but this—this place? Feels like walking straight into a grave I dug myself.

“You getting out or what?”

Tss. If I could, I’d rip his tongue out for asking.

I open the door anyway.

Rain bites. Viktor’s headlights carve the yard into slashes of wet light a