Daggermouth

Daggermouths were ruthless mercenaries, hungry for blood, and Greyson saw Jaeger as no better than his father. The mask hid the micro-twitches of his jaw, the bloodlessness of his lips, but not the flatness of his gaze. “By order of President Maximus Serel, justice will be enacted in the manner most befitting the crime. In that suspended moment, watching as the lights from the city danced across her skin, Greyson recognized a truth. Only then did she allow herself to sag against the cool wall, legs finally surrendering to gravity.