Chapter 162 Liars!

Max’s POV   The room spun around me as I stared at Kieran’s battered face, the blood trickling down his chin, his smug smile still etched on his lips. I clenched my fists so tightly that my knuckles went white, trembling with raw fury. Every muscle in my body was taut, the fire inside me blazing hotter than ever. How could he be so damn confident? So defiant even now, after everything we’d done to him?   I looked over at Leo, who was kneeling beside Kieran, his jaw clenched so hard I thought he might crack a tooth. His eyes were dark, burning with the same relentless anger that was threatening to consume me. We had been at this for hours—days, maybe—but the truth was, it was never about Kieran’s silence anymore. It was about finding Maya, Jackson, Aurora, Rafe—everyone who’d disappeared into the shadows since this nightmare began.   Aurora. Rafe. They’d vanished into thin air, just like that. One moment, they’d been part of our world, and the next, they were gone, like ghosts slipping