CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
Present day
Cool hands touched the inside of my wrist.
I opened my eyes, lifting my head.
Jonah sat on the side of my bed, two fingers curved around my wrist while he gazed at his watch.
The rest of the night flooded back to me.
Kai had spoken the truth. He had broken me. The thought of giving up Brooke, telling him what I knew, was too much. So I went back to my training, and what happened next would give me nightmares for a long time.
It wasn’t anything physical. It was emotional. I could see Kai, see Tanner and Jonah when they came into the room, but I was lost in the back of my mind. A different force was in charge of my body, and the only thing I could think about was not giving up my assignment.
Kai stopped pushing, but it hadn’t mattered.
For an entire n
