Chapter 36 Changing Attitudes Of Loyalty

• Samantha's POV
• The room's heavy tension felt as though I might be drowning in it. Lila stood against the wall, her weak, quick breaths accompanied by wide-open panic. Whichever game she had been playing, she was now in over her head, hence I couldn't help but feel sympathy for her. Royce was a name with more weight than we could have ever dreamed, and her eyes revealed fear.
• But compassion was not going to save us. Not immediately.