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“Sadly, though, people don’t always know what’s best for them. Sometimes they need us to step in and protect them from themselves.”
“The curfews, the raids, the interrogations—these are emergency measures. In an emergency, individual rights must sometimes be set aside until the danger has passed.
“Which is worse, in the long run?”
Rune isn’t bound by the same duty I am, he thought, remembering her kindness to the Penitents. She can afford to show mercy. Gideon couldn’t. Gideon
Now was not the time for mercy.
It was times like this where he wondered if they’d been too hasty, burning all the spell books. It would be useful to have them as a reference.
But Gideon wasn’t noble. And he didn’t do the right thing. Because he wanted this. “I’m scared, too.”
Alex wasn’t the strategic choice; he was the safe one. The boy she could be herself with. The boy she could actually share a life with—because he didn’t want her dead.
Gideon was her perfect rival; a deadly enemy to outwit. Without him, Rune could only be half of her full potential. It was why, deep down, she wanted him to come for her. She ached for the challenge of him. She needed to finish what lay unfinished between them.
