Everything’s wrong. It’s as if she flipped my entire world upside down with one kiss—one soft, beautiful kiss that left me neither breathless nor speechless, but instead did something far more dangerous.It left a thought behind… one little thought, the most dangerous of all to an officer....the thought that maybe, just maybe, I’m wrong.I have to obey the Major’s orders. There’s nothing left without order, and I can’t be the one to break file. She won’t relocate to Central Park quietly,won’t ever submit to the military’s demands—I can tell that in an instant—so I have to kill her.My gun levels at her head as she kneels before me, eyes closed, awaiting the inevitable. Just pull the trigger and be done with it. Pull the trigger, Cage. Pull it and you’re done here. It’s so easy… you’ve done it plenty of times in training.Plenty of times in training against monsters, not against gorgeous young women who just kissed me…That’s why I have to do it. I have to shoot her because if I don’t, order is shattered and I’ll have ruined everything.
