Tensing, I share.“This wasn’t Bratok.”
“No,” Chux agrees.“This was something else.Someone else.”
All eyes turn to the shattered blast door, the broken vent, the blood.
“You saw his face?”Stunt asks.
My jaw flexes once, hard.“Yeah.”
“And?”Chux presses.
“He knows me,” I explain quietly.“Knew me before Kings.Before all of this.”
Chux raises a brow.Shaft stiffens.Nitro curses under his breath.
Kelly tightens her grip on me.
“He called me Ledger.”
Silence falls like a dropped anvil.
Chux breaks it.“You sure?”
I nod once.“Positive.”
Shaft steps forward.“Ledger Masters doesn’t exist anymore not in this world.Only Riot.”
“Tell that to him,” I snap.
Kelly shivers against me.I tighten my hold.
“Do we know this guy’s name?”Shaft asks.
I answer clear as day.“Jonas Greene.”
Another thick silence.The kind that ripples outward like a bomb blast.Chux whistles low.Stunt mutters a curse.Nitro shakes his head.
“You sure?”Chux asks again, because he needs the confirmation.
“Yeah,” I confirm, “Same eyes.Same voice.Same fucked-up calm.”
Kelly shivers.I pull her into me closer.
“He’s supposed to be dead,” Chux mutters.
“Apparently he disagrees,” I share.
Chux walks toward me and Kelly, stopping a few feet away.“We’ll lock this place down.Sweep the woods.Check cams.He won’t get near you again.”
Chux lifts both brows as I don’t settle in any way.I feel my cheeks heat.I don’t budge.
Chux sighs.“Alright.I get it.You’re in guard dog mode.”
“It’s not mode,” I explain.“It’s reality.”
Chux lifts his hands in surrender.“Fine.Reality noted.Need to switch it up.Not gonna keep you here.”
He turns to Stunt.“Prep for relocation.We’re moving them both to the inner compound.”
