Chapter 54

Naivety was a luxury Kyle Preston could no longer afford. As he lay in the dirt, the memories of the recent ambush played back in a jagged loop. He had been soft. Throughout the tutorial, he had carried himself with a misplaced sense of hope, a desperate need to believe that his former colleagues—the people he had worked with at Parker Industries—still shared the same moral ground. He had been forgiving to the point of absurdity. That hope had been a blindfold, and it had nearly resulted...