Chapter 535 - CHAPTER 535 — The Traitor's Confession

The temple doors opened beneath Regina with a slow, grinding sound that seemed to travel through the foundations of the entire city, and by the time the ancient passageway beyond them had revealed itself, Adrian Sorel could no longer pretend that the secrets he had carried for years belonged only to the dead. The crimson light from the underground chamber climbed the walls in thin, trembling veins, illuminating faces that had once belonged to enemies and now stood together because whatever waited beneath them had grown far more dangerous than their old divisions. Adrian remained near the centre of the temple with his shoulders rigid and his hands hanging uselessly at his sides, watching Alessandro De Luca approach with the restrained fury of a man who had finally discovered that betrayal had a human face.