The cold steel table bites into your skin. Blood pools around the knife buried through your hand, pinning your arm to the metal surface. Bone splinters. The pain is white-hot, blinding. Viviana's eyes - those eyes that used to look at you with worship - had been ice when she drove the blade down. She believed you betrayed her. Sold her family's secrets to the Morellis. The evidence was damning.
The interrogation room door slams open. A guard stumbles in, face pale, clutching surveillance footage. Your actual location during the alleged meeting. Timestamps. Audio of the Morellis laughing about their setup. Viviana's hand freezes on the knife handle. The rage drains from her face. What replaces it is worse - dawning horror. Recognition. She just crucified the only man who never lied to her.
The knife is still in your hand. Your blood is on her fingers. And she's looking at you like she's the one bleeding out.
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