Page 254 of John + Siena: The Complete Duet

She looked away, but John’s hand grabbed her chin, and turned her back to stare at him. He wouldn’t let her go, either.

Andino did say after.

Siena couldn’t lie to John.

“Kev’s dead,” she whispered.

John stiffened in the bed. “How? Shot, or something?”

She wasn’t surprised that was the first thing he thought of. A lot of the warring between their families had been violent and bloody.

“No, he was poisoned at his birthday party tonight,” she said quietly.

John blinked, and stilled. “Poisoned.”

Siena shrugged. “Yeah.”

“That’s a very specific way to die. How do you know he was—” John’s words cut off abruptly when Siena glanced away again. The truth was in her eyes. She wanted him to see it and figure it out much more than she wanted to explain it. “Siena.”

She wouldn’t look at him again.

He said her name again.

And again.

“Siena,” John murmured, his hands grabbing tighter to her waist than before. “Don’t tell me you were the one to do it.”

“I did what I was told to do.”

It was what she was best at, after all.