Chapter 707. The Blade

Maeve

I chew my lower lip as Soren’s eyes scan mine. He turns away, pacing to the far side of the room, and leans against the wall.

“I told her to get fucked, but a few days later, while I rotted in a holding cell deep beneath her lair, she’d sent her people to fetch Patton from Moonrise. She used him against me, threatening to kill him if I didn’t do her bidding. She put my brother's debt on my shoulders–a sum no one should have ever been able to pay off. I knew she’d kill Patton without hesitation so I… I gave in. I’d been trapped for several weeks at that point. Patton told me my trainers and comrades in the Ghosts thought I’d just walked out, changed my mind, and they moved on like I’d never existed. I started to think Tom was right. There wasn’t a place in the world for people like us, so I leaned in. I started as a thief, a pickpocket. I was good at it, kept getting better at it, all while she held Patton over my head. When I started doing bigger gigs on my own, ou