No one from the Red team moved.
Despite Adam facing the Blue team alone, no one from his team moved. But not because they were frozen in place by fear, but because Adam ordered them not to fight.
Even Grace, fully wanting to, didn't follow. She clutched Samantha's shoulders, watching Adam walk alone toward the crystal.
The burden of what needed to be done—he'd claimed it entirely for himself. Grace wanted to share it with her, to fight alongside him now, at least for her daughter.
But Adam shook his head, as if telling her that her hands should only be for protecting her daughter, and her alone.
Just what sort of man was Adam, really?
Grace knew almost nothing about him, but she knew enough. She knew that Adam could have killed his way through this entire Game.
She knew that Adam was a tortured soul, and perhaps out of all of them, had the most right to be a monster.
But he wasn't.
Why? Why did she have to meet him in this sort of circumstance?
