"No, no," Lukas shook his head. "She's probably being threatened. Nikki wouldn't decide this on her own. If I were in her shoes, I might have done the same."
"Then why haven't you?"
Lukas stopped at Gustav's quiet remark.
Gustav tilted his head. "Whatever you decide, Lukas, I'll respect it. I only hope you make that decision from an unbiased place."
Lukas opened his mouth, then closed it. He sank back into his seat, head hanging low, Nikki's face replaying behind his eyes.
"Fuck." He winced, dragging a hand down his face and leaning forward, fingers pressed to his temple. "Why would she do that?"
"That's a question you already know the answer to," Gustav said, watching Lukas glance up at him. "Because she's Nikki."
It wasn't that Gustav considered Nikki a bad person. If she were, then so was everyone in Dominion — Lucian included. But she was ambitious. She always had been.
