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“You touched Lily’s ribbon.”

Something changed in his eyes.

“You took Bethany.”

Nothing.

Not denial. Not confirmation.

I hated him.

God, I fucking hated him.

“So here I am.”

The distance between us had narrowed.

I wish I’d brought my knife.

I stopped. My heart beat beneath my ribs.

Steady now.

Mine.

Still mine.

“Tell me.”

He studied me for so long I thought for a second he might refuse. That I would’ve come all this way for another man to choose what I knew.

Then—

“Everything?”

My blood turned cold.

Knox.

Blackthorn.

Everything?

The empty cellar.

I stared at the man in front of me.

How?

He couldn’t know that.

Could he?

His expression gave me nothing.

“Everything?” He asked again.

Bethany’s empty eyes filled my mind.