Rayford was relieved beyond description to find out that Amanda was all he believed her to be: a loving, trustworthy, loyal wife. But since discovering what Carpathia had done to Bruce, to Amanda, to Hattie, he was again battling with his own desires. He had once prayed for the permission, the honor, of being the one assigned to assassinate Carpathia at the halfway point of the Tribulation. Now, truth be told, he found himself angling to be in position at that time. He knew he had to talk sense to Hattie, to keep her from doing something so reckless and stupid. But that was also why he would
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Hot damn, we get two solid moments of character reflection/motivation in one scene, and both of them are about killing the antichrist. We’ve been getting hints of Rayford taking a dark turn for about three books now, but it hasn’t developed at all until this point. Fingers crossed some actual interesting character work is about to happen.
