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I gasp out loud when I feel his hand on my knee.
“Skittish.”
I don’t reply.
He continues, “We have a lot to address.”
Oh yes, we do.
“And we’re going to start with honesty, Cosette.”
I wonder if it’s only hopeful thinking that his voice is a little softer this time. To anyone looking in from the outside, Lyam’s the life of the party, full of jokes and laughter and humor. He could tell you the best restaurant to go to in any major city, the best nightclub, the most luxurious hotel. Women fawn over him at Le Luxe like he’s an ancient deity incarnate, a god descended from Mount Olympus who’s graced us mere mortals with his presence.
No one knows the way he broods when he’s alone.
Even his brothers don’t know about the scars on his back or why he never sleeps.
But I do.
“What do you want me to tell you?” I ask, my voice husky with emotion because I know before he answers that I can’t tell him the truth. None of it. Not why I made the decision to betray them. Not how I really feel.
And most definitely not who I really am.
“You heard me. Why did you do it?”
“I told you that night,” I say, grateful he’s focused on the road because I don’t want to look in his eyes. “They threatened to hurt you.”
The fingers on my knee tighten.
“And we both know that was a lie. My brothers buy it, but I don’t.”
Is that why he’s the one who spared my life?
How can he see through me like that?How? My God,sometimes I wonder if the man is superhuman.
His phone rings. Cursing, he glances at the screen and stabs it with his finger. Thayer’s voice comes over the car speakers.
“You got her.”
“Yeah.”
There’s a pause, before Thayer clears his throat.
“And Claude?”
Lyam’s jaw tightens before he responds. “Is on his way back to Corsica.”
“Alive?”
“Yeah, fucking alive. He’ll need a medic, but I told you I wouldn’t kill him on a whim.”
Now who’s the one lying? Lyam would absolutely kill someone on a whim if he thought he had to.
I’m under no delusion that his brutal attack had anything to do with caring about me. No, definitely not. I know for a fact that it was only because Claude touched Lyam’s property.Ihave nothing to do with it.
“Something else you need?” Lyam asks his brother while he makes a turn. I’d bet good money we are heading toward the Louvre.
I learned the layout of Paris years ago and have it committed to memory. I walk the streets in my dreams sometimes.
