Page 228 of Black Reign

“You can't hide me forever.”

“I don't need forever.”

“How long?”

“Until I know why Blackwell buried your father.”

Her eyes move to mine.

“And if your father had something to do with it?”

There's the question.

The one she expects to divide Ghost from Xavier forever.

I should hesitate.

Family.

Company.

Legacy.

Everything I've been raised to protect.

I don't.

“Then he answers for it.”

She stops breathing.

I lean back against the seat.

I can't tell her the rest.

Not tonight.

Not while she's hurt and terrified and wrapped in my coat.

I can't tell Travers.

Kane.

Vale.

Leo.

Nobody.

And my father can never know until I understand exactly what happened to Adrien Beaumont and why armed men were willing to abduct his daughter for something called a second key.

Most of all, I cannot tell Sabine that somewhere between a dark encrypted room and finding her bleeding in a London warehouse, I crossed a line I didn't know existed.

I'm in love with her.

Completely.

Catastrophically.