“You’re running wild here, Lieutenant.”
“I’m not wild, Governor, I’m caged. Trapped.” I walked until I stood nearly toe-to-toe with him and looked up, way up into his eyes. The resignation I saw there made my heart jolt with panic. He was going to do something here that I was not going to like. I could see it in that calm regret, hear it in the deep sigh that came rumbling out of his chest. “No. Not this. Just let me go on some missions. Let me go wild on a bunch of Hive instead of on these guys,” I said, pointing at the four who had fought each other for me, but refused to fight me.
The governor slowly shook his head. “I cannot allow someone so close to losing control go on a mission. While I admit, these men taking it upon themselves to decide your fate was not the ideal solution, they
