Chapter 41

She claimed it wasn't all a lie and yet...

"I don't believe you." But he wanted to. Wanted to think he wasn't that stupid, that when he thrust into her and they stared into each other's eyes, that she meant her claim, "I love you."

"The thing I did only happened later. Everything else was real."

"And what happened? What happened to make you think it was okay to participate in an ambush that hurt and killed people? People you fucking knew."

Her lips turned down. "That wasn't supposed to happen."

"What was supposed to happen then? You gave out the secret coordinates for that meeting to assassins." She'd known how precarious the peace talks were. How tenuous the ceasefire they'd brokered. "What did you expect? That they'd bring confetti and flowers?" he barked.

"Doesn't matter what I thought or believed. I was lied to and paid the price."