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Realization hit Sebastian unbidden. “You recognize the note,” he said with a tone of resignation in his voice.
He didn’t think he had a right to feel betrayed, but the feelings weren’t rational.
It finally all made sense to him.
The secret she’d tried to keep from him, the burden she had on her shoulders, was not the fact that she had killed her father—if that was truly the case. No, her harrowing secret was that somebody was blackmailing her.
And for some reason, they’d decided to raise the stakes.
Lavinia didn’t take the note. She didn’t read it. She just nodded as she turned toward him, unable to meet his eye. “I was going to tell you.”
“When?”
She swallowed. “Eventually.” Then she looked at him with tears in her eyes. “It’s not an easy topic to breach, Sebastian. But I wasn’t going to marry you without telling you the truth.”
“Is it true then? What the note says, is it true?”
Lavinia looked up at him with pain-filled eyes. “Yes.”
