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The sound grew, then passed as the guards raced along the hallway and past the room they kept us in.
“Tobias,” she whispered my brother’s name. “It’s him, I know it is.”
She thought he was coming for us.
But she was wrong.
Her fingers slipped between mine as The Priest’s sick smile rose in my head.I don’t believe you.My own desperate voice rose.Tobias isn’t dead…he can’t be…do you hear me?I shook my head. “No.”
“No, what?”
I closed my eyes. She didn’t know, and there was no way I was going to tell her.I couldn’t tell her.
Nick’s face rose to fill my mind. I could see it now, him kneeling on the ground next to our brother’s body as he opened fire…he’d kill everyone he could—and probably been killed himself in the process.
Because of me.
I let her go and stumbled forward, bracing my hand on the wall.
I should never have gone to that goddamn club…should never have tried to kill Killion.
“Caleb?”
I didn’t turn my head, I couldn’t look at her. Not yet.
“What’s wrong?”
I shook my head as the snap of a lock sounded, drawing my gaze to the door. A guard stepped inside, scanned the room, and settled his focus on me. I said nothing, waiting for him to move.The Priest followed, that cocky grin on his split lip not as evident now that he knew he couldn’t kill me. He glanced at Ryth, standing behind me. “You’re being moved.”
I stepped in front of her. “Why?”
“Why is no concern of yours.” The Priest’s jaw tightened as he narrowed that stare on me. “You won’t cause a problem, do you understand?” There was a scowl before he looked at Ryth once more. “She seems calm, Caleb. A littletoo calm.” One brow rose as he turned to me. “You still haven’t told her, have you?”
I shook my head. “No,” I growled. "I won’t…because it’s a lie.”
There was that smirk again, that knowing,fuckingsmirk.“Is it?”
Is it?
“Told me what?” she asked.
A twitch came at the corner of my eye. I fixed my stare on that piece of shit who stood in front of us dressed in a black full shirt and white clerical collar. He was no fucking priest. And no fucking man, for that matter…he was the goddamn devil. A devil who had all the fucking cards.
“Denial won’t change the truth, Caleb,” he murmured. “As a lawyer, you know that better than most.”
“Tell me what, Caleb?”
I opened my mouth to speak, to say the words that hung heavy in my heart. The wordshewanted me to say.
But I couldn’t do it…
“I can tell her, if you prefer?” the devil murmured.
“You know, that has gotta hurt.” My voice was husky as I stared at his busted-up face. “I bet it does. I bet it hurts like an absolute bitch.”
His gaze hardened to a cruel, terrifying glint.
“Tell me what?” Ryth demanded.
