‘Corner.’
‘Corner.’
‘What do you taste when you’re focused?’
‘Salt.’
‘Salt.’
‘Favourite constellation?’
‘Cassiopeia.’
‘Cassiopeia.’
‘Do you speak fluent Russian?’
‘Yes.’
‘Yes.’
‘What was the name of Mimi’s fox?’
‘Mari.’
Kade blinks, takes a swift breath.
Lachlan didn’t answer that time.
He—
‘You bastard.’
Lachlan exhales softly.‘I knew you were still in there.’
‘You fuckingtrickedme!’
‘I didn’t trick you.I proved to you that you are him, that you have all these memories inside you.YouareJules.My Jules.Just… locked up in a new way.’
‘So you’ve been learning about me, big deal!’
‘You said the name yourself.’
‘You probably have someone on the inside feeding you all of this!’
‘Then why the attack?Why go to all this trouble just to fuck with you?’
‘Because you’re a psychopath!’
‘Yeah,’ Lachlan chuckles, shaking his head, ‘but I’myourpsychopath, Jules.’
‘You tricked me.’
‘I brought out what’s buried.’
‘No, it’s like a… a hypnosis thing or whatever.’
‘Your name is Julian Sael Penhalyx.I called you Jules because you asked me to.Mimi called you Jewel.You were the single biggest pain in my ass imaginable.You drove me up the wall and halfway back down again, but I would’ve died for you then, and I still would.It’s you.I’d know you anywhere.’
