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"Oh?" Ace could feel the intensity of his story rise. She knew the ending already. At least part of it. And it wasn't good.
"Sniffed us out real quick. They held a hot iron to my stomach trying to get information from my mom. She never told them anything."
"Not even as she watched you hurt?" Ace hated how people could be so cruel. To Shelby, it was probably loyalty to the witches but his mother should have been loyal to him first. He was her son.
"No."
"Did they hurt her?" Her stomach became uneasy with the thought of him watching his own mother get attacked.
"Actually, she was able to make a run for it. And they let her go."
Gods, that was worse. That was so much worse!
"She just left you??"
"And I haven't seen her since."
"That's terrible." Ace sat up. She laid a hand on top of his, the only way she knew how to console.
Shelby moved his hand away. "You don't have to do that."
"I want to," she said softly.
He studied her. He was always studying her. Trying to figure her out like she was a puzzle and he just needed to put a few pieces into place to get a clear picture.
"What about your parents?" he asked.
His grandma finally began snoring behind them.
"Don't have any. I'm an orphan," she said in one rushed breath. "Nothing to really say about that."
"Any siblings or friends from before?"
"Nah." Ace shook her head. She tried not to think of her old life all that often. It wasn't good to reminisce; it only made her sad.
"Do you have any friends now?"
"You?" She half grinned.
Shelby's face scrunched up like he'd just bit into a lemon. "Hmm." He picked at his nails in his lap. "How'd you die? I'm assuming you didn't slit your own throat?"
Her heart thundered in her ears. "I don't want to talk about that."
Shelby stiffened. "Seriously?"
"For all I care, I'd been alone. Anybody who'd been there for my death is nothing to me now." That wasn'tentirelytrue.
"Unbelievable." He huffed a breath, abruptly standing from the couch. He shook his head as he started laying the blankets out on the floor for him.
"What?" Her death wasn't any of his business just like him maybe hooking up with a servant girl wasn't hers. Ace didn't understand why he was getting so huffy.
"I just poured my heart out about my mother. About the witches you aren't even supposed to know about—"
"Your grandma spilled the beans on that," she offered.
His lip curled. "And you can't even open up aboutonething? I look like a fool!"
"I don't think you look like a fool." Ace let her legs fall from the couch as she righted herself.
