[Music: Burn It Down By Daughter]
ARES
"There's still nothing on Agatha… she's hiding pretty well, but I have a best guess she's gonna try to flee the city, if not already."
Nico's words were lost to me, fading away before getting the chance to register in my brain. I was blinded by my drive to get to the bottom of this... end it once and for all.
It pained me that it took so long to finally have the guts to do what needs to be done. I've been so foolish, letting her reign freely in my mind, unable to break the invisible restraints.
I wish I had done it sooner. I wish I had gotten rid of her a long time ago. No amount of words could ever describe how much I regret my incompetence.
For years, she thrust Adrian in my face, proclaiming that he was mine, using him to get to me, using him for her sick attempts to gain power not just over the underworld but me. When in truth he was never her son to begin with, nor Elias.
Did he know too? That his wife had a child that wasn't theirs?
