Eve felt something crack inside her chest. "You're just going to do it. No matter what I say."
"Yes."
"Even if I beg you not to."
"Yes."
"Even if I leave again."
Dimitri's expression finally shifted, something raw and vulnerable crossing his features. "Don't."
"Don't what?" Eve asked, her voice breaking. "Don't leave? Don't beg? Don't try to stop you from killing yourself?"
"Don't make me choose between you and saving millions of lives," Dimitri said quietly. "Because we both know how that ends."
The truth of it, the brutal, devastating truth...settled over the room like a shroud.
He was right. If The Covenant deployed that virus, millions would die. Including her. Including Mike. Including Nonna. Including everyone she'd ever known or loved.
And he was telling her that he could stop it. That he was the only one who could stop it. That all it would cost was him walking into a facility that might kill him.
"I hate you," Eve whispered.
"I know," Dimitri said.
