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“Do you really believe that?” Incredulity etched my every word.
“Aye.”
I scanned him through the pale moonlight. I wasn’t sure what for, exactly. That’s the thing about broken hearts and damaged souls—they’re not always evident to the naked eye.
I released a hesitant breath. “Are you sure you’re ... okay?”
“I am.”
I wasn’t convinced, but I wasn’t going to press. Lucifer deserved time and space to process. Our world was teeming with secrets and lies—this wasn’t new—but some were more destructive than others.
The Flynn family secret was cataclysmic.
And I had seriously screwed up the details.
Lucifer’s hands tightened, drawing my attention away from my thoughts. “You told Aiden you wanted to marry Raphael because you thought it would be lucrative for business—aye?”
“Aye . . .”
“But the real reason was because he’d aided Tiernan in murdering your mother and kidnapping you.”
“Yes ... but ... I wasn’t going to kill your brother ... I changed my mind.”
Silence stretched between us, then he asked, “When?” The mask lacked the curiosity you’d expect from such a pivotal question.
I lifted my chin. “After we were in the chapel ... Sunday evening.”
His eyes flickered with understanding and something else—gratification, maybe.
I studied the scar on his bottom lip. “I know I shot him, but I was ... upset ... what he said ...”
Lucifer’s warm hands slid up my waist, and my heart stopped beating. For a moment, everything stilled, then a faint, heartbreaking smile touched his face at the same time I realized he was pulling me toward him. “You were triggered, sweetheart. It’s something we need to work on.”
We.
Every bone in my body turned to rubber. Every fear bled away.
I crawled into Lucifer’s lap, seeking his closeness, his comfort, his love. His arms wrapped around me, and my strangled sob broke free.
“Did you consider killing me?” I whispered into the warmth of his neck.
Lucifer tilted my head back. He searched my face, then wiped away my stray tears with gentle fingertips. “I may be a monster, but when it comes to you, I am merely a man.”
Lucifer was more than a man. He was the man I loved. He’d pieced my broken heart back together and made it work again. And for those reasons and more, I needed to come clean.
I traced the scar on his lip. “Tiernan told me Raphael hit you with a gun when you tried to stop them from taking my da.”
“That he did.”
I pressed a kiss on the raised skin. “I have something I need to confess.”
“Tell me,” he breathed against my mouth.
My fingers knotted into his shoulders as though I had the strength to hold him in place if he tried to run away from me ... from my truth.
“I killed Tiernan.”
Lucifer stilled. His eyes roamed over mine, but he didn’t pull away. “How?”
