I protect the family... At all costs.

VESPER
They took everything from me before I was old enough to know what I lost. My name. My family. My humanity. By sixteen, I was already a weapon: a spy and a killer-hollow, precise, and untouchable. Then, the FBI put a gun to my head and called it an opportunity.

I've spent my whole life being someone's dark secret. Until Sterling. The only man who ever looked at me like I was something worth saving. I only left him to protect him, because loving me is the most dangerous thing a person can do.

But after all these years, he's back. And God help me, so is everything I buried.

And yet, how can I think of a future with the man I still love when PALADIN is bleeding? I don't know who is hunting us. My family-my team-are disappearing one by one, like candles going out in a dark room.

I have no leads until a ghost from my past surfaces. He knows my wounds. He speaks my language. He says he can help me find them. Sterling begs me not to trust him. But I'm not sure I trust anyone anymore. Including myself.

Grief makes you blind. Love makes you slower. And someone is counting on both.

Somewhere between the man who taught me how to love and the man who understands what I am, I have to make an impossible choice.

Before this ends, I will find my family. I will protect what's mine.

Even if it costs my life.

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