Chapter 26: Behind the Curtain (Silas POV)

The loft’s heavy with silence, Nico’s arms around me, his breath shaky after the tabloid’s lies hit us both. My phone’s still on the floor, that post—“Silas Reed ran Cole Kelly off the road”—burning in my head, twisting my guilt into something worse. Nico’s name’s mud now, tied to drugs and fraud...