In the aftermath of that bloody night, so many things had happened so damn quickly. Archer, Kody, and Steele had bought their freedom from the Reapers with blood and fear, and I’d provided the insurance they needed by handing Archer half of the black market trade routes for Shadow Grove. I'd gone headfirst down the rabbit hole of my new life, eating, sleeping, and breathing Hades. I'd shut off my humanity as much as possible just to survive the awful things I'd done.
