Note: This chapter is in Leondres pov

I stood at the top of the stairs, stunned. Gabriel really was an Oliveira, he had just killed a man with no second thought. He didn’t even hesitate. He just sensed danger and reacted. Almost like a machine, like he was manufactured to react that way. Was he even human?

I walked into the room, attempting to block out my emotions as I walked past the corpse Gabriel had just left there. Cassian was on the floor, bleeding, what the fuck happened to his arm? The girl was crouched down next to him and Gabriel was standing about a metre away, hands shaking. So he wasn’t as emotionless as I thought, maybe.