BLOOD AND VOWS
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Or like he knew the thing that followed him would do all the killing for him.
Jace finally stopped five meters away, just before the fractured edge of the vault floor where the old structure began to spiral downward into the core. He didn’t smile. He didn’t speak. He just looked at Alessio, and for the first time since they were boys training in the backyards of bloodied estates and stolen legacies, he looked… sorry.
“You brought this on us,” Alessio said.
Jace nodded once, slowly. “I didn’t open the vault to win,” he said, his voice lower than it used to be, like it had been dragged through gravel. “I opened it so you’d finally understand what our fathers left us to inherit.”