Betrayed V0.96 ✭

At the end of the alley, a figure waited under a flickering streetlamp. It was Jax , the only person Kael had trusted since the Purge.

: A betrayal is fundamentally a break in trust where loyalty is traded for power, greed, or survival. Betrayed v0.96

The click of a safety being disengaged echoed through the narrow space. Kael looked down to see the barrel of Jax’s suppressed pistol leveled at his chest. The betrayal wasn't a sudden explosion; it was a slow, freezing realization that every shared meal and narrow escape had been a calculated investment. At the end of the alley, a figure