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“You and me both.”
“That does not help!” she says sharply. “Your sarcasm!”
“You’retone policingme?”
“What does that mean?”
“You’re trying to tell me not to use a specific tone of voice.”
“I am trying to get you to tell me the truth!”
Laughter, bitter and caustic, pours out of me, the opposite of what she’s asking for. That’s because Paigelynn is driving a hard bargain, one I can’t negotiate or fulfill. Her truth isn’t my truth.
And my truth isn’t up for negotiation.
Every word out of my mouth has to be a lie because the lie is all I know.
It’s all she knows, too, but we’re living with very, very different lies, two worlds competing for one reality.
And only one of them will win.
CHAPTERTHREE
Paigelynn
I have no choice.
He is my destiny, after all. Perhaps this is simply part of the Prophecy. The Mother warned me about the bad men who would try to ruin me. It’s hard to imagine Jason and Malcom fall into that category, but Cam is telling me they do. That they failed to protect me from this Basher man.
Which makes them failures at their jobs.
Jobs that were missions for them.
My king, my husband, my savior is beside me, taking me to the next stage of my life.
The best part.
“The Mother,” I begin, but Cam interrupts.
“The Mother lied to you.”
“She – ” My brain hiccups, the image of her freezing in my mind. “You say that, but – how?”
“I will explain it all in good time.”
A buzz, the sound of a text, rips through the van, over and over. As I breathe in, the acrid scent of blood, like sour copper, makes my stomach twist. Hurrying, I crack the window.
“Can we, um – those men in the back?”
“We’re only in this van for another hour or so.”
“An hour! Where are we going?”
“To a safe house for the night. Then we drive across the country.”
“Across the country! All the way?”
“Some of it.”
