Chương 198: Broken

"I have been waiting for this moment," Spade said with a heavy sigh. "Want some coffee?"

"No thanks, I'll get heartburn and then my hands will be all shaky. What's your plan truly about? I know it might involve you performing a heroic sacrifice and I won't pretend that it doesn't make me sad as hell. But it appears to me that it isn't what you actually want."

"Remember when I woke up the dead people buried in the sand of Oathbreaker's Cove?" The king-captain poured himself some coffee, shrugged and added quite a few drops of rum.

"Aye. You nearly died."

"Deadrousers get more powerful when they're close to their own deaths."

"Wouldn't nearly dying suffice?" Serenica asked. She was running low on emotions. She didn't even feel like crying, even though she saw the anguish on Spade's face.