Chapter 217: The Choice Between Loyalties

RILEY The sound of the explosion shook dust from the ceiling above us, and I knew immediately what it meant. They had come for Lyn. After everything that had happened, after all the lies and betrayals, the people who had taken me from Mama Sophia were here to finish what they'd started. "We need to go," I said urgently, my hands working at the chains that held Lyn to the medical table. Lake was already moving beside me, his own fingers flying over the locks with the practiced efficiency Andy had drilled into both of us. "Now, before they find us." Lake's face was set in grim determination as he freed Lyn's wrists. The healer's skin was a map of fresh scars that would fade thanks to his abilities, but the trauma in his eyes would take much longer to heal. "Can you walk?" Lake asked him, his voice flat and clinical. "I think so," Lyn replied weakly, struggling to sit up. His healing powers had kept him alive through Lake's work, but they couldn't erase the exhaustion that came from hours