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“Ethan, I need you to give me your word that Lucy is with you by choice and that you haven’t touched her”

I stiffened at that I knew, in theory, that soht think irl was inappropriate and there were even so the words made bile creep up the back of my throat

“I swear on my life that I would never hurt her I’ve never laid a hand on her in anger or in any other way that you’re thinking,” I et out

Cain’s eyes lifted to est time

Making sure I was telling the truth, no doubt I held s I wanted…no, needed him to believe about me, it was this

Cain finally nodded and then his hand was cupping my neck as he fiercely whispered, “I know you won’t believe this, but I’ to say it anyway I don’t lie, Ethan, and I detest people who do If you can’t tellat all”

I h I had no idea why I was even responding to the crazy statement People lied every second of every day

But inabout the little white lies people told each other every day to keep the peace or to s of so about went deeper

I wanted to believe him…badly But, how could I?

“Why are you telling me this?” I asked

“Because I’ onto for as long as it takes for you to tell Ronan everything”

I shookthebeyond the lies I’d come up with about who Lucy and I really were So what if Cain would hate

Cain stoppedthe back of it in a way that I was forced to keep my attention solely on him