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I laughed as the horrible truth beca the truth the whole ti all this for me There’s soht thing”

“Penny I a Maeve tried to kill you”

“Years ago! And it didn’t work!” I gestured at hi, bitter, and betrayed Alice was a liar I , but she was a liar Details of that night suddenly usted withthe truth sooner

I let her lie tosex with Kaspar I felt filthy and used

“Maeve is going to pay for what she did Everything I’ve done for the past few years has been leadingoff hi to cut the head off that snake and parade her body around so everyone will knohat happens when they try to hurt you”

I stared at him and didn’t knohat to say

I felt bitter and exhausted

Alice was a liar She wanted to kill led her to death to save my life

He let her watched us have sex She wanted to watch

Hell, she touched herself

“Did she love me?” I asked softly

“I’m not sure I don’t know if she was capable of that”

“Was everything a lie back then?”

“I wanted to tell you in a better way I wanted to show you”

I waved hio, he gave me some of the best pleasure of my life

Noas ugly and wrong

“Please get out I need to think”

He was quiet, assessing

“Take the ti”

“What’s the point? Will killing Maeve change anything? I know the truth now I still won’t marry you”

He griht it would change my mind

Well, it didn’t

“Finishing Maeve s between us, but she still deserves what I have co to burn her to ashes”

I shook , scary ames”

He gave me one last look, then his face hardened, and he left The door shut behind him and I collapsed onto the bed

Sobs racked my chest